Sorting and Grading:
Diamond Nexus gemstones are sorted and graded in the same way as earth-mined diamonds. Each stone is inspected, evaluated
and graded against a perfect control example. Any gemstones that exhibit any defects in cut, color or clarity are rejected.
Our Certified Signature series of gemstones is sent out to an independent diamond grading lab for third-party testing and grading.
Gemstones are stored in diamond paper until they are sold as loose stones, or set in jewelry.
Lab-Created Ruby, Emeralds and Sapphire Process:
Diamond Nexus Labs creates rubies, emeralds and sapphires that are the exact optical, physical and chemical duplicate
of earth-mined gemstones. They look like the real thing because they are the real thing. However, as they are made in a
lab, they are superior to 95% of all natural gemstones produced in the world today, because their crystal structure and color are perfect.
The rubies are the color of the most expensive Burmese pigeons-blood rubies, the emeralds are the deep color and clarity of the finest Columbian
stones and the sapphires are the equal of beautiful deep-hued Malaccan sapphires. These are all gemstones that cost thousands of dollars a carat in mined stones.
The advantage of our colored stones, as with our diamond product, is that they are created in laboratories by highly trained and well
paid technicians with environmentally clean and ethically proper processes. They are also geologically perfect, something rarely found in nature.
This is very different from mined gemstones. For instance; most Burmese rubies are currently banned from the US market because of serious
human rights violations in the Burmese gemstone mining industry. Of course, we all know the story of "conflict" or "blood diamonds."
Most precious colored gemstones such as rubies, emeralds and sapphires, (called RES in the jewelry world), are mined in third world nations in Africa,
South America and Asia. These nations rarely have the laws and infrastructure to enforce environmental and human rights regulations, and so the gemstones
are mined by environmentally damaging methods like strip mining and chemical extraction. This is often done by child or forced labor under horrific conditions.
