Small diamonds manual

Diamonds were the four C's of diamonds as a classification and should mark their quality: Clarity, Color, Cut and Carat. Over time, however, has been joined yet another C and that's a good thing. "Confidence" certified diamonds, are financed with the proceeds not of conflicts, they apply so as a so-called blood diamonds.

Clarity refers to the purity of the diamond. In the majority of diamonds come with a magnifying glass for the specialist very small, natural features to be seen. These margins prevent the light can penetrate freely the stone. The smaller and has less of a diamond margins, the more valuable and pure, he is also known. Is categorized in the following way

to detect at 10x magnification:

Flawless - if
Very, very small features - vvsi
Very small features - vsi
Small features - si

visible to the naked eye:

Significant features - p1
Major features - p2
Coarse features - p3

Under the paint color of the diamond is classified. The more colorless the more valuable! This is divided by the English name of the subdivision or to GIA standards. The colorless, blue and white diamonds are denoted by river and take the letters D and E. They are followed by fine white (Top Wesselton) with the letters F and G, white (Wesselton) called H and slightly tinted white (Top Crystal) with the letters I and J. Then the follow up to the tinted shades (yellow) diamonds with the letter Z.

The cut makes the diamond until his incredible charisma. The ideal cut is the brilliant-cut, because he only brings optimum brilliance and color splitting, so the polished finish and polished diamonds can rekindle his true fire. Fundamental importance of both the number of facets (56 facets is brilliant), and their distribution on the top and bottom of the stone, and their symmetrical arrangement in size and its angle to the Rundistenebene. In short, it must all vote and requires a high degree of skill, so that a diamond is given the perfect finish.

Carat refers to the weight of an uncut diamond. A Carat is equal to 0.2 grams A Carat is in turn divided into 100 points. A diamond with 50 points thus has 0.5 carat weighs 0.1 grams and

As mentioned initially called Confidence the origin of the diamond. This certification only carry diamonds that were mined by the criteria of the international Kimberley Agreement and will not provide funding for weapons and wars.