Peter Rufus

2221 days ago

De Beers fights lab-grown diamonds with technology as China’s synthetic gems threaten viability of their market

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The spread of synthetic diamonds in China, originally designed for industrial purposes such as oil drilling, is posing such a threat to the global diamond market that it has forced dominant player De Beers to invest tens of millions of dollars on methods to identify the man-made stones that look exa