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And the sustainable jewelry is spectacular, btw!

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When cultured pearl was introduced by Kokichi Mikimoto, it was heavily criticized. Now, cultured pearls are the norm. And it is a sustainable gem. Pearl farms have higher biodiversity than surrounding seas and many farms are carbon neutral, some farms in Japan are even carbon negative. Lab grown diamonds will be the better fit

It might be a BS industry but diamonds are worthy of admiration. Only a handful of gemstones are hard enough to last a lifetime of being worn and diamond sits atop that list.

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She is doing it just because its EASIER to source and more profit margin for her.

I promise you ethics are NOT the reason she does this, it's the fact that they are a THIRD of the price and easily sourced.

I am currently baked right now, but that was a very deep as well as truthful statement. It makes you think why some of us are so interested in past ways of living/hunting/crafting etc. A uncontacted or native tribe would look at us crazy if for instance we wanted to know and ask "How one would make a bow and arrows out of everything you see around you?", which don't get me wrong they have for centuries if not longer…while you have a Hoyt RX-7 compound bow with Gold Tip Velocity PRO 300 Arrows with 2-Inch Raptor Vane Arrows.

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Agreee!

I already imagine people getting locked up for illegal mining labs 😂😂😂

Fun fact. Two weeks of running these machines equals to one year's worth of fuel for driving a sedan car

@@Johnne009 can you provide the source please?

@@Johnne009 still cheaper than "natural" ones

The technology came from the semiconductor industry. So don't worry that the tech will get locked up it is too late for that. The technology is intensively used to manufacture microchips.

Give it a generation or two and it will be rare to find anybody who cares about the difference.

In virtually ALL CASES, labgrown gems are superior in quality, to mined stones. If a flawless ruby represents nature's "one in a billion," lab grown crystals democratize those gems by making them widely available.

Shaping and bending yeah, you can see them being used later in the video 18:00

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There is something called the Resource Curse, you can check it up... When a country starts exploiting some natural resource, it fails to give a decent life for the citizens that work in that industry, or that were expelled from the lands where the resource was found. That industry is the driver for misery, and when it's gone (when there is no longer that resource, or the demand has changed), the local population may get a better life by working in another industry, or going somewhere else to work

the miners always get "minimum wages", and today most of the work is mechanazed or dangerous in 3rd world

wait is it possible to 3D print aluminum, gold or any other metal. I thought 3D (additivie) printing is only currently possible with hard or flexible plastics

@@DeusVult77763 I'm not in the know or even an armature enthusiast but I have seen articles discussing methods of it. I assume if manmade jewels are deemed worthy then why are artist still employing archaic metal work when there's such exciting new methods with increased precision?

Metal 3d printers have been around for decades they cost in the millions and fine jewellery snobs don't like machine printed stuff

@@DeusVult77763 True but that will change. Also, artists don't have to _buy_ the machine, just send file to be printed.

Usually 3D printing is being used in the jewelry industry to make the lost wax figure, as it leaves some structural micro cracks if you print with metal

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Maybe he meant to say 1/4 gram? (And yes, it's really 1/5 gram...) I couldn't figure out what he meant either... but the real figure makes his argument even stronger, by a factor of 20. It takes literal tons of resources to liberate very small amounts of diamond from the ground.

@@kellybraille Dear Kelly, if he meant to say 1/4 gram (and as you know, it's really 1/5 gram), then that would contradict the gentleman's statement that there is NOT much carbon in a diamond since, again, 1/5 of a gram=1 carat and that would mean that the entire diamond is made up of carbon... Do you think that's true? Because unless the laws of chemistry have changed, or I've been lied to, or perhaps I don't understand something, the last time I checked, the chemical formula for diamond was C →meaning carbon. Surely, I understand there are impurities within a diamond but still I would say the highest element within a diamond would be carbon. I am by no means a fan of the natural diamond industry. In fact, I believe the natural diamond industry has been nothing but an elaborate marketing scheme. And indeed, lab-grown diamonds are so much better and more intelligent and more environmentally friendly than natural diamonds, not to mention the social goodness it brings so many people (by stopping blood diamonds). But does that mean we should take anybody's word without questioning it? I don't think so. There are more than a few bogus statements in this video, mostly said by the gentleman with the scarf. Do you really think that it would take "digging of 1,100 tons of rock and exposure of 30 tons of toxic metal to the environment and the consumption of 5000 liters of water and the production of half a ton of greenhouse gas" to make A SINGLE ONE CARAT DIAMOND? That would not make any economic sense at all. I am not arguing natural diamond mining is not harmful to the environment. All I am saying is that these specific numbers may very well be just made up or not true just as It is not true that there are 4 grams of carbon in a 1-carat stone.

Well they're not usually very big

Diamond is crystallized, compressed, carbon. It's difference is its density.

First from naturals diamonds, but now they can use diamonds seeds from other lab diamonds.

Lab diamonds are so pure and perfect that to fool the gem dealers they have resorted to adding impurities to their creations for minor flaws and subtle color changes and a bit of murkiness.

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Hating from the sideline I see

If you had glass and a diamond next to each other in front of you, you would see the difference. Glass is crystal but diamonds are also magical.

Shiny stones for people with money 😊

Diamonds (both natural and lab) reflect light more than glass and they are harder-- meaning they are durable and scratch resistant.

I mean any country can build a diamond factory. Get on with it then

Yes :) pretty stones with remarkable properties

Because the other 2/3 can go into something actually useful, like a house.