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Chinese diamond suppliers are still legally allowed to supply global jewelry markets with lab-grown stones. But high-end manufacturing and especially defense contractors are faced with an existential problem: buy finished products from China, or go without, or build the entire industry from scratch.
Blocking the US and its allies from advanced manufacturing techniques and still cutting into the De Beers diamond cartel? Well well well how the turntables…
But at what cost??
My wife has one of those manufactured diamonds. it was cheap as hell and is utterly stunning. There’s no reason to buy a blood diamond
Any recommendation where to look for them?
She said “Its actually a moissanite. They say its made with different chemicals but if you were to examine the final result, it’d be the exact same.” I sure can’t tell the difference.
She got hers from an Amazon vendor named Canny Cat
Moissanite is awesome, and thanks to the productive forces of Chinese socialism, is extremely cheap on AliExpress and Amazon. I have been getting tons of it for the jewelry enjoyers on my Christmas shopping list.
It is chemically different. The natural form only occurs in meteorites in small quantities. It’s not quite as hard as diamond, although it’s close - harder than sapphire even. The main visual difference vs. diamond is that diamond sparkles white, while moissanite sparkles in colors. It’s actually more sparkly, and it weighs a bit less so the stones are larger for the same carat weight.
They are to diamonds what Soviet Champagne was to the regular stuff. Different, but accessible to the proletariat, and actually superior in several metrics.
Interesting. We really like the colored sparkles!
Makes sense with their Africa relations and all. I’m hoping this is a move to drive domestic consumption to imported diamonds mined in properly constructed, staffed, and operated diamond mines that they’ve invested in, but time will tell
There’s no reason to buy a blood diamond
“Uh aktually, all the good artisans exclusively work with blood diamonds, so if you want jewelry that doesn’t look like ass, you still have to buy blood diamonds.” - some dipshit argument I’ve stumbled upon irl
Good morning
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
