No. But the companies want you to think that they are so that you are more willing to pay the high prices for the stones. Diamonds in general are common stones, found in many places world wide, but the mines are not actively in production for one reason or another. Diamonds don't even rank on the top 20 list of rarest stones in the world.
What IS rare when it comes to diamonds are the perfect stones: D color, IF clarity, AND more than 1CT. Less than 900 carats a year meet this standard, which equals about 750 stones per year mined are top quality stones, about 6% of all mined diamonds.
Also rare are the fancy colors, naturally. Blues, greens, pinks, etc... usually don't come out of the ground as the color they are sold as. Most colored diamonds on the market today have been enhanced (usually with heat) to get the brilliant color you buy.
2007-01-07 16:04:32
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answered by welches_grape_jelly 6
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Diamonds are so not rare! Don't let any one tell you there are. It is just that you are not going to go to a diamond mine and get a diamond and cut it. It is really high way robbery!
2007-01-07 16:04:11
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answered by SmartAzzCanbee 1
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No. Large and naturally colored diamonds are rare but the smaller ones that you see in most jewejry stores are common.
2007-01-07 16:11:08
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answered by funvonne 2
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uh i would say they are considering they take A LOT OF TIME to form and all the precision and accuracy a diamond cutter has to have in order to get the imperfections out and into the cut that one wants. plus some come in colors and those are definitely rare ^_^
2007-01-07 15:58:59
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answered by Cat-san 2
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The idea that diamonds are rare and valuable and a statment of love and romance is purely maketing hype by a monopoly called De Beers.
2007-01-07 16:05:50
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answered by Boomer Wisdom 7
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or better than 0.5 a century. even nevertheless, in recent times it has develop right into a hazard to offer gem-high quality man made diamonds of great length.[34] the usually used public of commercially available man made diamonds are yellow in colour and produced by potential of so called extreme tension extreme temperature (HPHT) procedures.[35] The yellow colour is led to by potential of nitrogen impurities. different colors is additionally reproduced inclusive of blue, eco-friendly or pink that are a results of the addition of boron or from irradiation after synthesis.[36] at latest the each and every year production of gem high quality man made diamonds is barely some thousand carats, while the full production of organic diamonds is around one hundred twenty million carats. even nevertheless the production of colorless man made diamonds is dwarfed by potential of that of organic diamonds, you are able to purely locate one fancy colored diamond for each 10.000 colorless ones. when you consider that fairly much the full production of synthetic diamonds consists of fancy diamonds, there's a extreme risk that the better fancy colored diamonds (over a million.5 carats) would be man made.[37] at present, knowledgeable gemologists can oftentimes additionally distinguish between
2016-11-27 03:15:22
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answered by Anonymous
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No, diamond are not rare.
2007-01-07 15:57:23
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answered by RV 3
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Seems so. After watching "Blood Diamonds", I would think they are!
2007-01-07 15:55:31
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answered by luvmuzik 6
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diamonds are hard colorless mineral: a hard transparent precious stone that is a variety of carbon. it can be found at africa and its very rare and expensive
2007-01-07 15:56:31
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answered by sweetpea28 2
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the colors one-are the ones who are rare in color,and carats
white ones are not rare,but costly,,so that would be a yes,sir
2007-01-07 16:02:14
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answered by Anonymous
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