Synthetic Diamonds

AG&J Identifies Synthetics Melee Mixed with Natural Diamonds

Surat: A synthetic diamond manufacturing company owned by a Gujarati diamantaire is facing litigation from De Beers subsidiary, Element Six Technologies Ltd, for alleged infringement of its patents related to synthetic diamond material production. Ltd alleging infringement of its patents concerning synthetic diamond material. Element Six believes that certain of its patents for proprietary synthetic diamond products and their method of manufacture have been infringed (in particular Singapore patent Some patents for proprietary synthetic diamond products and their manufacturing method have been infringed, in particular Singapore patent numbers 115872 and 110508, Element Six claimed in a statement January 12. The Singapore-based grower of colorless De Beers Group of Companies has announced that its synthetic diamond supermaterials company, Element Six Technologies Ltd, has today begun legal action in Singapore against the synthetic diamond manufacturing company IIa Technologies Pte. Ltd, alleging quickly becoming a key diamond-producing country since the discovery of large diamond deposits in the 1990s. synthetic diamonds too offer promise for more ethically-produced diamonds, though currently the lab-produced stones comprise only two percent of However with immense growth opportunities the industry also faces many challenges in terms of rising operational costs, environmental risks, degrading of reserves and over-production of synthetic diamonds. Purchase a copy of this diamond and gemstone .

and a credit crunch afflicted many diamond dealers as a result of declining sales. Additional factors included the difficulty in competing with synthetic diamonds of ever-improving quality and changes in work rules decreed by the De Beers raw diamond monopoly. However, Dinesh Navadia, president of the Surat Diamond Association, does not buy this argument. "People do not understand the difference between synthetic diamonds and grown diamonds. The fact that grown diamonds are not artificial is known only to NEWS: This Diamond Planet Will Last Forever The researchers, who experimented with small samples of synthetic ocean floor rock at high pressures and temperatures, found that those slabs released most of their carbon at conditions equivalent to depths of To create a harder diamond, researchers used tiny particles of carbon, layered like onions, and subjected them to high temperatures and pressures. A model of a 10-shell "onion" carbon shown here. Diamonds are the hardest naturally occurring minerals known .