South Africa's cabinet has approved participation in an international effort to boost the marketing of real diamonds, ...

There are two methods of growing synthetic diamonds, and the process can be completed in as little as two weeks. Both options require a diamond seed — a single crystal diamond — from which a ...

Allied Market Research valued the synthetic-diamond industry at $24 billion as recently as 2022, but in May, De Beers —a longtime proponent of man-made—announced that its lab-grown offshoot ...

Although we have known how to make synthetic diamonds since the 1950s, the dominant process requires temperatures of 1,300-1,600 °C (2,400-2,900 °F) and 50,000 atmospheres of pressure over 5-12 ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Technavio’s latest report on the global synthetic diamonds market provides an analysis of the most important trends expected to impact the market outlook from 2017-2021 ...

The process of creating a diamond naturally takes between 1 and 3.3 billion years. Conversely, a lab-grown diamond can now be created in 150 minutes. But despite being an ethical ...

Neater still: Gemologist Dusan Simic says natural and synthetic diamonds are for all intents and purposes identical. “From the gemological point of view, there is really no difference,” he says.