A lab-grown diamond is a diamond. It is the same carbon crystal as a mined diamond, with the same hardness (10 on the Mohs scale, the hardest natural material), essentially the same physical, chemical and optical properties. Only specialized laboratory equipment can tell a grown diamond from a mined one. The difference is origin: instead of forming underground over millions of years, the crystal grows in a laboratory over a few weeks, by one of two methods, CVD (chemical vapor deposition) or HPHT (high pressure, high temperature). The method is...
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Every ORVESSA piece comes with one certificate from IGI, the International Gemological Institute, covering all of its stones. IGI is an independent gemological laboratory: it grades stones; it does not...
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