Whenever people have a thought of colourful diamonds, their minds turn to sapphires,
rubies, and emeralds. In many cases they would be right. On the other hand, for the
jewellery connoisseur, they ought to also consider the brightest, beautiful and resilient
stone of all - the diamond! Many people don't know that diamonds come in colours other
than white. The jewellery industry names these stones "white".
However, the informed jewellery aficionado familiarises that the most beautiful stones in
the world arrive in a rainbow of colours.
Natural coloured diamonds may be one major colour or customised with a secondary hue or
hues. Natural colour stones are also graded for colour differently than white stones. Natural
colour diamond stones are graded with a specified order: faint, extreme light, light, fancy
light, fancy, fancy dark, fancy intense, fancy vivid and fancy deep. With many natural colour
diamonds, the more pleasing diamonds are the ones nearer to fancy vivid.
Discussing the Various Coloured Diamonds
- The least exceptional colour of natural colour stones is yellow. Natural yellow colour
diamond stones get their colour from the existence of nitrogen in the carbon lattice.
- Rarer than pink stones are the orange diamond stones. Natural orange stones get their
colour through the presence of nitrogen as well as defects in the crystal lattice. Since the
colour orange is a mixture of red and yellow, the primary colours of orange stones range
from red orange colour to yellow orange.
- The subsequent least available diamond stone is the blue diamond. Natural blue stones
get their colour by the presence of boron in structure of diamond. The most prominent
blue diamond stone in the globe is also the best recognised - The Hope Diamond.
- Another rarest naturally coloured diamond in the list is the purple diamonds. True
purple stones are almost non-existent as well as are created by abnormally high
amounts of hydrogen in the structure of the diamond stone. The most natural purple
stones are modified via pink so that they are recognised as pinkish-purple stones. There
are three popular purple diamond gems known all over the world and little is familiar
about two of them - the Supreme Purple Star Diamond and the Royal Purple Heart
Diamond.
- Another natural rarer colour is green. They are casual in that their structure not from
any defects located in the diamond. They are created from exposure to radiation which
takes place naturally in the soil, probably from uranium ore. Due to the method of their
formation, natural green diamonds are often simply green on the surface. There is
simply one recognised natural green diamond - The Dresden Green.
- Moreover, there are red diamonds. They are created through the same process as pink
stones. There are just a few stones that GIA has graded to Fancy Red (unmodified).