We would like to help a dear friend.......

For private sale at £4400

Although we do not deal in natural diamonds, we have a dear friend who we would like to help sell a beautiful 1 carat radiant cut diamond set in a 9.7 grams of platinum. The finger hole is 10.65mm and would make an ideal engagement ring or present.

The ring comes with a case, certificate and report and a purchase reciept for £5400. The almost square cut white diamond measures 5.4 x 5.25 mm with clarity SI1 in a 4 claw setting.

There is a saving of at least £1000

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Radio 4 - You and Yours feature in "synthetic diamonds"

Just to put the record straight. Of the three laboratories mentioned in the Radio 4 program (You and Yours, Monday, 26th May) only LifeGem make 'memorial diamonds' the other two Gemesis and Apollo do not (allegedly).

Phoenix Diamonds are UK based and one of three others in the whole world who only make 'Memorial Diamonds' but we are not connected in any way to any of those mentioned.

The program also refers to lab' created diamonds as "synthetic", this word infers in some ways that they are inferior to natural mined diamonds - our diamonds are real diamonds and can be certified by 'AnchorCert' the Birmingham Assay Office.

Terminology is a huge tin of worms and is being highly disputed all around the world as what to call 'created', 'man-made' or 'lab-grown' diamonds. De-Beers have always been derogatory towards 'created' diamonds though strangely enough were beaten to the patents by just 7 days against General Electric who won in them in the 50's (allegedly).

It also may be true that gems can be grown in just "4 days" - probably in a factory production line process, but we have a very labour and technically intensive scientific process just to prepare the carbon for the same HTHP process in a single unique diamond production.

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The Deefer Diamond

Fabulous memories immortalized forever?
This blue diamond was made from the ashes of a much loved mutt rescued from the Battersea Dogs Home.
Deefer was 14 and a half, a Collie cross Labrador

0.31 carat brilliant cut London Blue Diamond

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More diamonds from the lab'

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Can we make diamonds from DNA?

We have been asked "Can we make a diamond from DNA extracted from hair".

The short and blunt answer is "NO". As far as our chemists are concerned "DNA is destroyed at 600 degrees centigrade" and I personally know for sure that DNA prep' equipment is regularly cleaned with both bleach and gas flames to remove all traces.

It is certainly possible to make a diamond from hair, but to make a diamond from one or two strands of hair (the carbon residue that is) would result in a diamond containing almost minute proportions of the hair as to be indistinct from any other carbon source - even a pencil lead.

If any scientist or DNA expert can tell us otherwise, we would be interested to hear from you.

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Can we supply a raw diamond made from ashes?

We've been asked a few times if we can supply the raw diamond crystal made from the ashes of a loved-one, well we could I suppose, but what would be the point? The idea of cutting and polishing diamonds is to capture the flashes of fire, the scintillation of light which diamonds do so well. You may as well encapsulate your ashes into glass, it would be cheaper and probably more suited. So I think we have to decline from even going there, after all 'fancy' diamonds arre so valuable in any case, it would be a shame to make a diamond out of a loved-one and then present it a just a rough crystal. Better to cut and polish it to allow it to shine and last forever.

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Marriage of partners, a pair of identical gems.

Thinking of a 'Civil Partnership'?

Bought the rings yet??

Our new website www.celebration-diamonds.com offers to blend/combine/marry two amounts of beard trimmings or hair, extract the carbon and make two absolutely identical 0.75 carat (6mm round) 'Brilliant' cut canary diamonds, to be mounted in identical gold bands.

Call 0870 881 0612

or e-mail ceomail@phoenix-diamonds.com

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