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The 9 Best Places to Buy a Lab-Grown Diamond Online

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If you’re searching for an ethically-made, eco-friendly engagement ring, consider lab-grown diamonds, which are chemically, physically, and visually identical to natural ones—but retail for a fraction of the price.

Courtesy of Brilliant Earth, Kay, Clean Origin

Courtesy of Brilliant Earth, Kay, Clean Origin

While the element of surprise is an essential part of an engagement, modern couples choose to have ring conversations before any purchase is made. And today, brides- and grooms-to-be are carefully considering the type of jewelry they invest in and wear for most of their lives. With

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Neil Diamond Breaks Down Discussing Heartbreaking Health Condition

The legendary musician is still coming to terms with the diagnosis.

Neil Diamond’s one’s health journey hasn’t been an easy one over the last few years, but it’s learning to find acceptance.

The 82-year-old music legend—who announced in 2018 that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease—candidly opened up about the condition in an emotional new interview for CBS Sunday Mornings, which is set to broadcast over the upcoming weekend.

In a snippet from the forthcoming interview reported by CBS News, Diamond told correspondent Anthony Mason he was in denial for a long time after initially receiving the diagnosis.

“I’m

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See Lake Shasta and Diamond Valley Lake grow

Following an extraordinarily wet winter, the water is once again roaring into some of California’s largest reservoirs and lakes for the first time in nearly three years.

Southern California’s largest reservoir marked an incredible turnaround Monday when officials from the Metropolitan Water District turned on the taps once again — releasing water transported from Northern California that gushed from valves at 600 cubic feet per second into the 4.5-mile-long Diamond Valley Lake.

The reservoir near Hemet, about 40 miles west of Palm Springs, was built nearly three decades ago and holds twice as much water as all of the region’s

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Arctic Canadian Diamond Company Limited, including Ekati Diamond Mine, to be sold to Burgundy Diamond Mines Limited

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CALGARY, Alberta, March 13, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Arctic Canadian Diamond Company Ltd. has entered into a binding share purchase agreement with Burgundy Diamond Mines Limited, a company publicly traded in Australia (ASX:BDM). Burgundy has agreed to acquire 100 per

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Aether wants to shift you from blood diamonds to gems pulled from thin air

Diamonds: carbon, transparent, expensive, symbolic of love and commitment — and many of them come dripping with human rights abuses. They also come with a heavy environmental burden, even the lab-grown ones. So what if diamonds could be done differently, with proper traceability and sustainability? That’s exactly where Aether, a diamond-growing company based in New York, is trying to change the narrative around diamonds.

“The only thing transparent in this industry are the stones,” says Ryan Shearman, CEO of Aether Diamonds in an interview with TechCrunch. “There is no supply chain on planet Earth that’s fully traceable with respect to

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Artificial Diamond Market to Witness Tremendous Growth by ZhongNan Diamond, Henan Huanghe Whirlwind, Zhengzhou Sino-Crystal Diamond

The Globals Artificial Diamond Market 2032 Industry Report is a professional and in-depth study on the current state of the Artificial Diamond Market by QMI. The Artificial Diamond Market is supposed to demonstrate a considerable growth during the forecast period of 2023-2032. The company profiles of all the key players and brands that are dominating the market have been given in this report. Their moves like product launches, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions and the respective effects on the sales, import, export, revenue and CAGR values ​​have been studied completely in the report.

While not mined, synthetic diamonds are created

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How Kiama’s ‘blue diamond’ helped build colonial Sydney, paving the way with basalt

The distinct hexagonal columns found at Kiama’s Bombo Headland Quarry on the New South Wales south coast, like those of the Giant’s Causeway in Ireland, are a natural phenomenon offering geologists insights into the Earth’s core mantle.

But they also tell a different story, one of hard-working men doing loud and dangerous mining work as old Sydney town established itself on the back of basalt.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this story has a photo of people who have died.

First mined in the 1880s, basalt came to be known as Kiama’s blue diamond.

“Kiama’s blue diamond

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Diamonds are a girls and boys best friend and they aren’t always natural

VENTURA, Calif. -Things have changed since Marilyn Monroe sang about diamonds being a girl’s best friend.

Santa Barbara and destination wedding planner Percy Sales said they are also a boy’s best friend.

These days some Valentines and engagement ring shoppers have natural and lab grown diamonds to choose from.

Jewelry Couture sells both.

“I had a customer who picked up his ring this morning a five-carat lab grown diamond in a ring,” said Jewelry Couture owner Shahar Sehati.

While some jewelers are reluctant to sell them, others are meeting the growing demand.

“The demand became more and more and people

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