Magic Diamonds!

BLUE AND GREEN DIAMONDS
by Jeff Corey, President

Generally speaking, the most desirable color in a diamond is no color whatsoever. In extremely rare cases, diamonds will come out of the ground in other natural colors of blue, green, pink and the rarest of all, red. Colorless diamonds are graded by the Gemological Institute of America as “D” on a scale from D-Z. You’ll begin noticing faint tints of yellow, brown or gray in diamonds graded at L color. As the diamonds color grade reduces, the colors become more visible and less desirable.

Diamonds graded at L or below are more difficult to sell because most people are adverse to their diamond exhibiting color tints. Years ago, someone realized that if a diamond was exposed to very slight radiation, its color would change to usually an intense blue or green.

At Day’s, since we purchase parcels of diamonds directly from the mines, we’ll sometimes find diamonds in the L color or below. We recently decided to irradiate several of these diamonds. A diamond with a yellow tint will magically change to a deep ocean blue color or vivid green. When irradiating a diamond in a cyclotron, it is impossible to tell what color it will change to.

Day’s in house designers have created a wonderful new collection of fine jewelry using these magnificent blue and green diamonds as the focal points. Stop by our store any time to see and have some fun trying on these intriguing colored diamond pieces.