Fancy color

Fancy Color Diamonds
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Fancy Color Diamonds
When seeking that special diamond, keep one thing in mind - it is not all black and WHITE. Diamonds occur in every color of the rainbow and then some.

Fancy Color Diamonds
While 'colorless' diamonds are the most popular, they are just one category of diamonds. The other category of natural stones is known as 'fancy color diamonds.

fancy color In diamond, any color other than colorless viewed face up; in diamond any color is a fancy color.

Fancy Color Diamond: A diamond with an attractive natural color other than light yellow.

Fancy Colors
Not all Diamond Color is bad. In fact, some Diamonds with Color are way more expensive than their White alternatives of the same Clarity, Cut and Carat Weight.

fancy color A color grade falling outside or beyond the D-Z range. Some of these colors can be extremely valuable especially when they are considered intense or vivid.

FANCY ColorS
Rare and very expensive, colored or "fancy" diamonds are becoming ever more popular. These diamonds reflect the colors of the rainbow and dazzle in brilliant combinations of red, pink, blue, yellow, orange, green and brown.

Fancy Color Diamond:
See diamond Color. The "fancy diamonds" are more highly saturated colors of the natural stone--even browns and yellows.

Fancy Colored Diamonds
Although majority of diamonds come in shades of white, there are also "Fancy" natural intensely colored diamonds available in colors like yellow, pink, greens, brown, red, orange, blue etc.

FANCY COLOR DIAMOND A Diamond that exhibits a strong color, such as yellow, as opposed to an off colored white Diamond. Fancy colored Diamonds can be very expensive and are often highly prized by collectors.

Fancy color diamonds - Any color diamond other than yellow, brown or gray.
Fancy shapes - Any gemstone shape other than round, also called fancies.

Fancy colored sapphires-- including pink, green, orange, and golden yellow-- are magnificent when combined in a necklace or bracelet.
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Fancy color diamonds - Natural fancy color diamonds obtain their coloring from completely natural processes such as impurities or structural defects. Very rare and expensive
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Fancy colored diamond which have a clear and distinct color are to be designated separately a such.
Photometric measurements are not taken into account when determining the color of a diamond.

Fancy Color Diamond:
Diamonds with natural colors outside the normal market range are classified as Fancy Color diamonds.
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The fancy color radiant cut diamonds usually have lower length-to-width ratios that are closer to a square than a rectangle.

Any fancy colored diamond that you buy should be accompanied with the correct documentation of its authenticity by a reputable laboratory to show that it has not been artificially tinted or treated.

Fancy Color Diamond
A diamond with natural colors present. The natural color is a result of trace elements being present during the diamond's creation. A fancy color diamond is considered to be more valuable with the most vibrant colors.

[NOTE: Fancy color diamonds do not follow this rule. These diamonds, which are very rare and very expensive, can be any color from blue to green to bright yellow. They are actually more valuable for their color.] ...

Though fancy colored diamonds rarely occur in nature, laboratories can easily create them through irradiation and heating. This process can permanently turn a natural colorless diamond into a fancy in a wide range of colors.

Natural fancy color diamonds are found all over the world, including Australia, Africa, South America and Africa.
Natural versus Treated:
Angara only carries natural color diamonds.

The term fancy colored refers to any diamond that is not graded on the normal color scale. The color has to be natural to qualify for this designation.
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Natural Fancy Color Diamonds
Diamonds with a deep body color, including brown, yellow, blue, violet, orange, pink and red. Fancy color diamonds are unusual and therefore highly valued.

Perlman adds, "Fancy colored diamonds, while extremely rare, are still attractively priced because they are so new to the market. Only a very select group of people have ever had the chance to see one and few are aware of their value." ...

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Fancy Color Diamond:A natural diamond whose color falls outside what is considered to be normal range, which includes white, light yellow, and brown.

synthetic, modern cuts, old cuts (old mine, old European, rose, and transitional), fancy colored (natural vs. enhanced), Ideal cuts, and enhanced (fracture filled, laser drilled, HTHP color enhanced)
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Fancy color - a color of a gemstone other than the most typical or well known color.
Fancy shape - a gemstone shape that is other than round, oval, emerald cut or cushion shape.

The deposits in Montana produce a range of fancy colors, and deep blue sapphires come from one of the world's largest deposits at Yogo Gulch, where sapphires are small in size but have a beautiful blue.

So-called 'fancy color diamonds' come in more intense colors, like yellow and blue, but these are not graded on the same scale.

Fancy colored diamonds are valued by the intensity of their color concentration. All colored diamonds belong to the carbon family. The difference of the color is the result of the different molecular structures of the crystals.

Effect of color on price: In general, as the amount of yellow in the stone increases, the value of a diamond decreases, that is until the fancy color grades are reached, and then the value goes up again.

A new supply of unheated, fancy color change (purple to blue) Burma sapphire has recently entered the market. In the best cases, these goods are beautiful with a deep color saturation and an obvious color change.

One of the best kept secrets of the Tanzanite trade is the incredibly rare occurence of fancy color Tanzanites that are occasionally discovered.

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Fancy colors such as pink, red, blue and green are discovered each year, but they are very rare and incredibly expensive. Such fancy colors do not follow the normal color/pricing scales and are categorized separately.

"Fancy colors" are those colors outside the normal range, and are found in all colors. The most sought after are colorless, and the more intense "fancy colors", blue, pink and red.

Other colors such as green, blue, rosé and red are rarer and are collectively described as "fancy colors." The most frequent fancy colors are brownish hues and black.

More should be said about the effects of heat-treating techniques on Montana sapphires, and the variety of fancy colored sapphires available. Not all Montana sapphires are suitable for heat- treating because of variations in chemical composition.

Diamonds outside the normal color range are called fancy colored. Graded as Z+, fancy colored diamonds come in a variety of colors like red (the rarest), pink, violet, blue, green, and bright yellow, known as "canary.

Although the production of colorless synthetic diamonds is dwarfed by that of natural diamonds, one can only find one fancy colored diamond for every 10.000 colorless ones.

Fancy colored diamonds are not white diamonds with poor color grades. True yellow diamonds can be comparable to white diamonds, but are graded on a different color scale. Certified yellow diamonds are treasured for the color they exhibit.

Color: Diamonds are graded on a color scale established by the GIA. Fancy colors refer to diamonds with hues like pink, blue, green, yellow, and very rarely red. Fancy colors are not included in this color scale and are considered extremely rare.

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COLOR ORIGIN - A determination of the cause of color in fancy colored diamonds. Diamonds that are naturally colored are very rare and expensive.

The recent growth in demand for fancy colored yellow diamonds has given great rise to the popularity of yellow sapphires as an affordable alternative. Many yellow sapphires have a very close resemblance to yellow diamonds.

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A few localities: the Umba river deposit with its beautiful fancy colors. From 1994 Songea's pastel colored stones became available and from 1995 the Tunduru deposits were worked and brought the world more blues, purples, pinks and greens.
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The deposits in Montana in the United States produce a range of fancy colors, mostly from alluvial deposits in the rivers, and deep blue sapphires from one of the world's largest deposits at Yogo Gulch.

Unless a diamond is a fancy color (or any color other than colorless to light yellow, brown, or gray), the American Gem Society Color Grading System places it on a 0 to 10 scale, 0 being colorless.

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Diamonds whose color intensity is outside the normal range are called fancy colors and come in about any color you can imagine (e.g., pink, red, green, purple, black, blue, yellow and more).
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Montana in the United States is famous for fancy colored sapphires. While clarity is a mark of value in most stones, sapphires with fine inclusions that are evenly distributed throughout the stone produce star sapphires, ...

Color Grading: A system of grading diamond colors based on their colorlessness (for white diamonds) or their spectral hue, depth of color and purity of color (for fancy color diamonds).

Fancy colored pearls have peculiar and irregular values, depending a good deal upon rarity and upon the obtaining of a customer for an odd color. Fine pink and fine black pearls are examples of the type that is meant here.

Tone: A classification scale, ranging from light to dark, which indicates (specifies) the color intensity of gemstones and fancy colored pearls.
Toughness: How well a gemstone resists breaking and chipping.

The GIA grades diamonds on a scale of D (colorless) through Z (light color). All D-Z diamonds are considered white, even though they contain varying degrees of color. True fancy colored diamonds (such as yellows, pinks, and blues) are graded on a ...

A trade term describing a light yellow diamond with green or brown overtone but lacks the intensity to be a Fancy Color Diamond.
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