Is a clear diamond more rare than others?

Question

I have a clear diamond and the card says it is more rare

Answer 1

It depends on the colour too.
Diamonds are valued on Cut, Clairty Colour and Carat.

Clarity is what you're referring to:
Clarity is possibly the most important of the factors affecting the quality and price of any diamond. Diamonds of all colours can be vary attractive. Diamonds of all different cuts look good, and not many diamonds are very badly proportioned.
Extremes of clarity can produce a brilliant magnificent diamond, or a dead, dull, and lifeless stone. Clarity is also sometimes called purity. The fact that clarity is also sometimes called quality shows the importance of this factor.
Clarity literally means "clearness" rather than lack of inclusions, and refers to the diamond's ability to allow the free passage of light without obstruction or absorption. Any inclusions, cleavages, cracks, or other natural features inside or defects on the surface will stop light from passing through the stone.

What Are Inclusions?
Geologically, an inclusion is "a solid fragment, liquid globule, or pocket of gas enclosed in a mineral or rock."
In gemmology, this definition is usually extended to include any other feature of the gemstone which impedes the free passage of light through the stone. This includes changes in crystal growth direction (e.g. twinning), and external features, such as fissures which run from the surface into the stone, naats , trigons, and zones of colour absorption (e.g. the very common colour banding seen in sapphire).

Are All Inclusions Visible?
No, not all inclusions are visible either with the naked eye, or under the standard 10 times magnification used by gemmologists. Many consumers believe that inclusions are things which are visible to the naked eye, and that if no inclusions can be seen, then the stone is perfect. Some stones contain many areas of "twinning", where the growth direction of the crystal has changed during its formation, and these areas can absorb or refract light in such a manner as to reduce the brilliance of the stone. Other stones contain large numbers of small inclusions, some visible under 10x magnification, others not, because they are too small. These clouds of microscopic inclusions can reduce the passage of light through a stone so severely that the stone looks "dead", with no brilliance or fire whatsoever. Such stones usually have a slightly cloudy look to the naked eye.

What Are Carbon Spots?
A common belief, shared by some jewellery shop staff, is that any black marks visible in diamonds are composed of carbon. Diamonds are composed purely of carbon. While it is possible that some inclusions may be of graphite, the commonest form of carbon, or amorphous carbon, such inclusions are quite rare. Dark inclusions in diamond can include other diamonds, olivine, garnet, diopside, pyrrhotite, pentlandite, pyrite, ilmenite, rutile, silica, bronzite, spinel, serpentine, biotite, phlogopite, chlorite, calcite, haematite, goethite, and iron oxides.

Grading Standards
In recent decades, the GIA, Gemmological Institute of America, has influenced other gemstone grading bodies, such as CIBJO, throughout the world, and most countries now use the same standards as the GIA for diamond clarity, so that the GIA scale has become virtually an international standard. There still remain vast differences between commercial grading and laboratory grading.
De Beers supply leaflets and showcards for diamond clarity grading, but as their aim is undoubtedly to increase demand for higher quality diamonds at higher prices, the De Beers charts contain some distortion. They typically graphically represent the higher grade bands as wider than the lower grades, whereas in reality it should be the other way round, and the grades below P3 are not even mentioned, as though they do not exist.

The following link has a table of clarity for you:
http://www.24carat.co.uk/diamondsclarityframe.html

Answer 2

They are not true diamonds, but pretty quartz crystal. Mystically speaking, they are far more powerful than real diamonds, but there monetary value is minimal. The sentimental worth and their mystical worth are far more valuable (priceless!)

Answer 3

Most are clear but the bigger the better and worth more

Answer 4

Ya

Answer 5

nope... all diamonds were once clear, they've just been spray painted.

Answer 6

Yep.

Answer 7

Yes, and it is more expensive. It should be more white too.

Answer 8

yes, the clearer the better!

Answer 9

ya i have got it one for me
its costly too

Answer 10

basically yes