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Dr. Yuan on Diamonds: A visit to Alrosa, Russia
From July 7 to 13, 2007, with the visiting group organized by the Russian National Academy of Sciences, the organizer of the 30th International Gemological Conference (International Gemmological Conference, IGC), we visited Mirney, the diamond city of Yakutia (Yakutia) in Siberia, and took the plane of Alrosa Airlines from Moscow for a six-hour flight. When we arrived over Mirney, we could see dozens of large and small circular holes on the ground, with a diameter of more than a thousand meters, small tens of meters. These are diamond-containing Kimberley tubes, which are not allowed to fly over the potholes by aircraft. Mirney began to build from a wasteland around 1950 because of the discovery of diamond mines here. It has become a city with 50,000 residents. All the people, things and things in this city operate around diamonds.
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2022
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Dr. Yuan talks about diamonds: the macro and micro structure of diamonds.
The microstructure of diamonds Using a transmission electron microscope, a diamond can be magnified tens of thousands to millions of times, and an image of carbon atoms can be seen. It is very difficult to make the sample. First, the diamond is ground to a thin sheet of 10-30 microns, then the argon ion is thinned to the central penetration, and the thickness is gradually increased to 2000Å around. Microstructural defects, atomic lattice images and atomic images in the diamond sheet can be seen in the transmission electron microscope.
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2021
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Dr. Yuan talks about diamonds: special lathe diamonds
Diamond lathe workers have gradually evolved from hundreds of years ago to 57 round faces. They are the most common lathe workers. If the angle ratio is adjusted well, they will have the characteristics of 8 hearts and 8 arrows. This is a simple tool called an effect mirror. Eight hearts can be seen from the bottom of the diamond and 8 arrows can be seen from the crown. No one has applied for a patent for this kind of lathe workers, so anyone can cut, grind and sell it. The 8 Hearts 8 Arrowers have a dedicated name, Hearts & Arrows.
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2021
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Dr. Yuan on Diamonds: Global Production and Sales Forecast of Cultivated Diamonds
After natural diamonds are processed from rough, the retail price of finished products is about twice the wholesale price. After the rough processing of cultivated diamonds, the retail price of finished products is about 4-5 times the wholesale price. The profit margin of cultivated diamonds is obviously higher than that of natural diamonds. Therefore, many natural diamond businesses are attracted to change to cultivated diamonds, and other industries they come into contact with are gradually changing to cultivated diamonds, not only selling, more into the most upstream part of the growth. It is not easy for anyone to own a natural diamond mine, but it is relatively easy to have a production factory that cultivates diamonds, which is also a diamond mine.
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2021
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Dr. Yuan on diamonds: Is there an oversupply of diamonds in global cultivation?
The global production of CVD-cultivated diamond rough will be about 10 million carats in 2021, but most of the colors are not good enough. The quantity and market demand of good quality finished diamonds should be in short supply. However, the oversupply of poor quality finished diamonds will drive down the selling price of the whole market. Color to F, G, H more popular.
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2021
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In November 2020, GIA began to produce a fine-graded cultivation diamond grading report certificate. The content is exactly the same as the identification certificate of natural diamonds. The color and clarity no longer use the coarse grading mode, but use the fine grading mode: D, E, F, G, H, I..., IF, VVS1, VVS2, VS1, VS2, SI1..., etc. The price of the certificate is exactly the same as that of natural diamonds, the only difference is that there is no paper certificate.
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2021
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