Jewelry experts weigh in what to know before buying a lab-grown diamond.

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Lab-made, synthetic diamonds are becoming increasingly similar in quality, cut, and clarity to natural ones.

The diamond industry has changed drastically in the last few decades — and that’s a good thing. From the first synthetic diamond that was created in 1954, the industry began to swing in a direction ...

According to the experts, there is no way for the average person to differentiate a natural from a lab-grown diamond. If you’ve bought a piece of fine jewelry containing a diamond in recent years, you ...

Global sales for lab-grown diamonds increased to $12 billion in 2022, up 38% year over year, per an analysis by New York-based Paul Zimnisky, a diamond industry analyst. Jewelry shoppers increasingly ...

It's proposal season, and engagements are on the rise. So are factory-made diamond sales.Not that you'd know the difference. Man-made diamonds look the same as naturally occurring ones. The only ...

Lab-grown diamonds have become so popular with consumers that some couples are asking jewelers to swap the natural diamond in their rings for a lab-created sparkler. "Just last week we had three or ...

Increasingly so, real or synthetic is often the question asked when speaking of diamonds. Also known as 'cultured' or 'lab-grown' diamonds, these gems are man-made but look just as exquisite as mined ...