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New Guidelines Suggested for Synthetic Diamonds.
The World Federation of Diamond Bourses (WFDB) released three resolutions taken by the WFDB concerning synthetic diamonds during the 32nd World Diamond Congress, which took place in Tel Aviv on June 26 to 29, 2006.
The first resolution states that “the usage of synthetic diamonds for gem purposes will be acknowledged and gemological laboratories will be requested and encouraged to issue certificates describing the same, provided that such certificates clearly emphasize the fact that such are synthetic diamonds.”
The second resolution states that “the term 'synthetic diamonds' will be used for man-made or laboratory produced diamonds.”
The third resolution states that “the terminology normally used by laboratories to describe the features of diamonds should not be utilized for synthetic diamonds and that the International Diamond Council (IDC) will be authorized to formulate alternative terminology to describe such features for usage by laboratories.”
GIA has also recently announced that they will be issuing a special lab grading report for synthetic diamonds that will clearly distinguish it from lab reports of mined diamonds.
Comments
If a 'created' diamond is a REAL diamond insomuch that it is exactly the same as a mined diamond, why should it be classified as 'synthetic'? Surely Moissonite is synthetic which is NOT exactly the same as a lab' grown diamond
Posted by: Suzie Jackson on August 9, 2007 1:12 PM