


| Come experience the next generation of Cultured Diamonds! |
| Welcome.... To the next generation of Cultured Diamonds! |
COLOR Colored diamonds are incredibly rare in Nature. So few are their numbers and their prices so high that any new and affordable opportunity to include color diamonds in our jewelry is an exciting prospect. Currently New Life Diamonds offers gems in four colors: light sparkling green, deep pomegranate red, brilliant blue, and various tints of yellow from light canary to vivid orange. These color diamonds retain all the head-turning radiance, luster, brilliance that belong to natural diamonds. Our Cultivated color diamonds do not fade and continue to blaze their magnificent fire throughout the years. The beauty and rarity of colored diamonds in nature pushed us to learn more about the properties of their color in order to be able to reproduce those colors in the labs. Over the past decades, scientists explored and introduced methods to bring color onto cultivated diamonds. While some methods change the color only temporarily, others bring about permanent change with no damage to the structure of the crystal. HPHT and CVD are the methods that provide the best results. In order to explain how we create our color diamonds we must take a step back and look at how colors occur in natural diamonds. The presence of color in a diamond is often defined by structural anomalies and the presence of other mineral atoms in the crystal. Those atoms become part of the crystal matrix lattice during its growth and in the end will affect the light absorption within the crystal. Tints of naturally colored diamonds will depend on those extras in the lattice and will be seen as one of the following colors: steel grey, blue, green, yellow, orange, pink, red, purple, brown or even black. Tints of yellow, orange and brown often appear due to the presence of a higher nitrogen content in the atomic structure. So whether or not nitrogen was added "accidentally" by nature or on purpose by a scientist, the result is the same - the diamond has a yellow color that may vary from slightly yellow to intense orange or brownish colors. All our yellow to brown colored diamonds acquire their color in the same way as natural crystals do, simply by having nitrogen added at a very early stage of formation. Similarly the blue colored diamonds get their stunning gentle blue color due to the presence of baron atoms in their structure. To bring green to a diamond, some extra thermo baric treatment is applied that will result in a lively, sparkling light green color. For our deep red colored diamonds we use the method of irradiation, which has been developed and successfully applied throughout recent decades. All colored diamonds grown in our lab have a lively intense color that will last and will not fade with time. |
