Orange Diamond
David Federman
Modern Jeweler
Creation plays by very frustrating rules when it comes to pure red and orange diamonds. Yet with nearly 100 million carats of diamond mined annually, collectors of fancy colors still feel good reason to hope for a handful of stones with these two rarest of shades. So while the search for pure orange diamonds is like looking for a needle in a haystack, it is child’s play next to the grail-quest for pure red diamonds.
Nature is sporting enough to provide encouraging numbers of fancy color diamonds with golden amber and fiery autumn hues, but the orange in these stones usually amounts to a secondary tinge or color highlight. Collectors lucky enough to own the occasional orange stone whose hue truly conjures pumpkin or cantaloupe know they possess one of the world’s rarest diamond treasures. There are just enough of these stones to nourish dreams of owning one. But reality nearly always falls far short of fantasy. “I’ve seen a dozen diamonds that were certified as pure orange,” says fancy color diamond specialist Alan Bronstein, Aurora Gems, New York. “Unfortunately, only three faced up with decent color. The others were too washed out.”
So close and yet so far.
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