Diamonds and gemstones are ornaments in jewelry, but the difference between them leads to the difference in jewelry prices, and also makes jewelry lovers have a different understanding.To learn more about the differences between diamonds and gemstones jewelry, check out this article.

High-grade and semi-precious stones

A diamond is a gem. It is a diamond that can reach gem level.But gem is not all diamond, gemstone and jade are gem in the broad sense, generally refers to the rich color can be carved into jewelry or handicrafts mineral resources.In a narrow sense, gemstone refers to a single crystal with rich color and small amount that can be polished into gemstone jewelry.

So the difference between a gem and a diamond is that they belong.According to the national standard, there are 47 kinds of gemstones, among which the diamond is one kind of gemstone.

And there are precious stones and semi-precious stones.Precious stones are diamonds, red sapphires and emeralds. They are expensive and popular.Then the relationship between semi-precious stones and precious stones is the inclusive relationship.It seems to many consumers, semi-precious stones are in addition to the precious gems, it contains the price of gems and popularity are relatively poor, position is inferior, but it’s not like that, semi-precious stones inside and also some of the price is high, the popular gem, such as tourmaline in the market demand is very big.

Diamond cutting is not the same as gem cutting

For diamond, it has extremely good optical properties, such as bright light and dispersive light, so the cut grinder must be in proportion to the decoration effort.For colored gemstones, the most important thing is to show the color expression of the gemstone, in order to achieve the best color expression, the cutter must consider the multi-color and color gamut.

For pleochroism gems, such as ruby, Dan spring stone and tourmaline, cut wear will often the original stone crystal orientation, can make the cut after grinding showed the most attractive color pleochroism, because pleochroism gems if can be the most attractive color perfectly show, that its value should be higher than other presenters.For example, the polychromatic color of sapphire is indigo blue and green blue. The cutter usually chooses to adjust the position of the raw stone during cutting and grinding to highlight the indigo blue color, because the sapphire with green and blue color is less valuable.

In the cutting and grinding process of a diamond, the original stone usually has the maximum weight retained when it is cut and ground into a circle. In contrast, many colored gemstone crystals have more weight left when they are cut and ground into fancy stones.Many fancy cutting mills are based on the shape of the original stone crystals, for example, aquamarine crystals are usually long and thin, leading them to tend to rectangular trapezoidal cutting mills.This is why diamond cutting is different from gem cutting.

Mosaic technology

The enchase craft of diamond and gem is about the same actually, use claw to set more, bag sets, orbit sets, clip sets, column sets and close sets.Nevertheless the main enchase means wants to use appropriate enchase craft according to gem diamond jewelry design whole effect.

Identification method

If you want to identify a diamond from many stones, then we can test the hardness, the hardness of a diamond is very high, we can use a diamond hardness tester to slide the stone, if there are no scratches, it is a diamond.In addition from the gloss, diamonds have a typical diamond luster, cut high grade diamonds have good light reflection and fire color.