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At some point in the near future, maybe 1 year, maybe 10, anyone with a spare couple million dollars will be able to buy a machine to grow diamonds indistinguishable from mined diamonds, defects and all. No one will be able to tell at all, and the market will be flooded. Prices for mined & manufactured alike will crater.

There is no future for mined diamonds.



The price of a basic CVD system is already much lower than that.[1] The process is slow, though. Weeks of time in the vacuum chamber with vapor being deposited one layer of atoms at a time.

[1] https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/1200C-Chemical-vapor-...


at some point 15-20 years or so ago De Beers started laser etching logos on the diamonds for exactly this reason.


Wasn't the public reason for laser etching to prevent conflict diamonds from having a market?




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