The Difference between a Blood Diamond and a Lad Diamond!
Are you looking into purchasing an element of exquisite diamond jewellery for someone you care about this year? Now you have to decide if you need to have a natural diamond or if you will be fine with a lab diamond.
The first thing you are likely going to compare is the look of real diamonds versus lab diamonds. If you are able to do this you may be pleased or shocked to see they both look just as beautiful as each other. Often the case is that you will notice that the lab diamond is actually more attractive in the jewellery piece than the natural one. You may think this makes it a good buy.
Yet then perceptions pop into your head. Sadly, many people still look at lab diamonds and think of them as a 'cheap alternative to the real thing. Well let's look at a stigma you may not have paid as close of attention to the stigma against real diamonds.
Have you looked into how real diamonds are mined? While you are looking at the finished piece from those diamonds you need to look a little deeper into where they came from in those diamond mines overseas. It's time to learn about blood diamonds - a world of horror relating to these gems.
Blood diamonds are named this way because they are diamonds that are literally harvested on the blood of others. Unfortunately in many countries that have diamonds mines those in charge are the government or a militia who want the diamond money at the price of people, who are often used as slaves. The people who are working in the mines are often forced to work in horrible conditions that can make them sick or even cause them do die and their families are threatened or hurt if they don't work.
When it comes to purchasing a diamond for yourself, there is not an easy way to know if the natural diamonds you are looking at were mined in this manner and are blood diamonds. Would you be comfortable wearing a piece of jewellery where someone was made sick or even died in the process of getting the diamond?
This is something you will never have to deal with when it comes to the lab created diamond. Instead, the same process of heat and pressure is used to make the man made diamond, but in a laboratory. By going this route you will be able to have great pieces of diamond jewellery that are made out of a lab diamond and look beautiful with none of the bad karma that could be attached to natural ones.
