Is there a purple diamond?

The actual color of a purple diamond can range from very light lilac or near-pink to a deep and vivid color. The color can also range from a pinkish-purple to one with a cooler blue tone. Even though natural purple diamonds are very rare, there is a growing interest in purple colored diamonds.

Is purple diamond natural?

The shades of colors in which diamonds have been found is endless. Purple diamonds are definitely natural, assuming no one artificially enhanced the diamond and influenced the color.

How rare is the purple diamond?

But you probably don't know much about purple diamonds, which combine the peacefulness of blue with the sweetness of pink. That's because purple diamonds and violet diamonds are exceedingly rare. In fact they are so rare that a pure purple diamond of only 1.99 carats recently sold at auction for $673,000.

What is the price of purple diamond?

The 3.37-carat gem, named the "Purple Orchid," has an asking price of $4 million, or nearly $1.2 million per carat. Leibish & Co., an Israeli firm that owns the diamond, says the gem originated from an unnamed South African mine, one of the very few in the world where purple diamonds can be found.

What is a purple diamond called?

Natural purple diamonds are also known as grape diamonds, orchid diamonds, and plum diamonds, to name a few. Or, for the ones with lighter purple hues, there are names such as lilac or mauve diamonds.

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What is the rarest color of diamonds?

Red diamonds are the rarest of the colored diamonds, with only 20-30 existing in the entire world. They get their beautiful red color from a rare process during their formation, which changes the crystal structure of the diamond and causes light to pass through it differently than colorless diamonds.

How can you tell if a purple diamond is real?

Lay the stone onto the dot with the flat side down. Through the pointed end of the diamond, look down onto the paper. If you see a circular reflection inside the gemstone, the stone is fake. If you cannot see the dot or a reflection in the stone, then the diamond is real.

What is the rarest diamond?

Red diamonds are the rarest and some of the most expensive in the world. Also known as Fancy Reds, they come in a variety of shades ranging from orange-red to brownish red. Majority of the world's red diamonds come from the Argyle Diamond Mine in Australia.

Do green diamonds exist?

Diamonds with a vivid green color, like the one shown here, are very rare. There are only about 300 examples in the world above one carat in size. Vivid green diamonds above three carats are generally only seen in museums: there are perhaps 10 known in the world.

Are black diamonds rare?

Although most black diamonds on the market today are either superheated or irradiated to an almost black color, natural black diamonds do exist, though they are extremely rare. Carbonados, sometimes called “black diamonds,” are a distinct and unusual polycrystalline diamond material.

What is a rainbow diamond?

“Rainbow diamonds” is a commercial name used for synthetic rutile (or titanium dioxide), a diamond stimulant introduced in 1948 and popularized for some of its gemmological properties, which were close to those of natural diamonds.

Is there a red diamond?

Red diamonds only exist with one colour intensity, Fancy, although their clarities can range from Flawless to Included, just like white diamonds. The largest and most flawless red diamond is the 5.11 carat Fancy Red Moussaieff Red Diamond, which has internally flawless clarity.

Are there orange diamonds?

Though orange diamonds and yellow diamonds can claim similar causes of color, orange diamonds are rarer than yellows. Since orange is between the colors red and yellow on the color wheel, natural orange diamonds range from orangey-red diamonds to yellowish-orange diamonds.

Are purple diamonds more expensive than pink diamonds?

Purple stones with a modifying color like pink are less expensive than a “pure” purple. For example, this 0.42 Carat Fancy Pink Purple Diamond Round Cut from Leibish & Co. is priced at $15,210 and this 0.40 Carat Fancy Deep Pinkish Purple Cushion Cut also from Leibish & Co. is priced at $38,100.

What does a purple diamond mean?

Purple diamonds are associated with spirituality, enlightenment, and pride. They are a good choice for philosophers, artists, sociologists, and psychologists. The color purple has also long been associated with nobility, wealth, and power.

Is there a pink diamond?

The majority of all pink diamonds mined come from one source in Australia, the Argyle Mine. Argyle Pink Diamonds are so expensive because of the very limited supply. A pink diamond is formed of only carbon like a white diamond, through millions of years in the kimberlite pipes of volcanoes.

How many red diamonds are there?

Although all natural fancy coloured diamonds are extremely rare, none are more so than the red diamond. Found mostly in Africa, Australia and Brazil, red diamonds are so rare that only around twenty to thirty true red diamonds are known to exist and most are less than half a carat in size.

Are pink diamonds rare?

Pink Diamonds Originate Mostly From Australia

Amazingly, less than 1% of the Argyle mine's output are actually pink diamonds, making these diamonds the rarest of the rare. This means that for every one million carats of rough diamonds mined at Argyle, only one carat of pink diamonds is suitable for selling.

Who owns a red diamond?

The largest red diamond in the world, the 5.11 carat Moussaieff Red, was discovered in Brazil in the 1990s and is currently owned by jeweler Moussaieff.

Are GREY diamonds expensive?

The highest quality grey diamonds have only the most minute inclusions and blemishes. In contrast to this, salt and pepper grey diamonds are less rare than white diamonds and are considerably less expensive. They contain many black and white inclusions (the 'salt and pepper') that give them their grey colour.

What do purple diamonds look like?

The actual color of a purple diamond can range from very light lilac or near-pink to a deep and vivid color. The color can also range from a pinkish-purple to one with a cooler blue tone. Even though natural purple diamonds are very rare, there is a growing interest in purple colored diamonds.

Where are violet diamonds found?

Argyle diamond origin

More than 90 percent of the world's rare pink diamonds come from the Argyle mine in Western Australia and it is the only source of hydrogen-rich violet diamonds in the world. Violet rough appears usually as an angular object, mostly as melee, varying from some points to 0.20 carat.

What is a purple stone?

Amethyst is a violet variety of quartz. The name comes from the Koine Greek αμέθυστος amethystos from α- a-, "not" and μεθύσκω (Ancient Greek) methysko / μεθώ metho (Modern Greek), "intoxicate", a reference to the belief that the stone protected its owner from drunkenness.

What is the cheapest color diamond?

To group the colors based on prices the relatively affordable colored diamonds are grey, brown and fancy yellow. Going to mid ranging prices it can be an intense and vivid yellow diamonds and orange diamonds. A group higher in prices are pink, purple, violet, green and blue diamonds.