Diamonds & Engagement Rings News

According to the results if a national survey conducted online via Harris Interactive by Teleflora, the world’s #1 leading floral service offering the greatest choices in floral arrangements, men and women both agree about the best gift to be given on Valentine’s Day. 84 percent of women ages 18-34 chose diamond jewelry or roses as there number one best gift that comes to mind when thinking of this romantic holiday and surprisingly, 77 percent of men in the same age grope agreed. No matter what age the is, diamonds and roses never go out of style, being that 72 percent of men and 76 percent of women ages 45-54 selected diamond jewelry or roses as there number one gift that comes to mind when they think of Valentine’s Day.

So how do we decide what is the best way to show how we feel about that special someone in our life? The Teleflora survey found that:

• 46 percent of men consider roses as the best gift to give on Valentines Day.
• When given a list of the best Valentines Day gifts to receive, women selected roses as the best gift (32%); diamond jewelry as the second (29%); jewelry other than diamonds as there third chose (26%); and flowers other than roses as there fourth choice (24%).
• When men where given a list of what they would give there significant other on Valentine’s Day 53% choice roses, followed by flowers other than roses 39%; 34% of men said they would buy jewelry and 26% said they would give diamond jewelry to the ones they loved

The florist at Teleflora offer men what women want to make this year’s Valentine’s Day even more special than the past. Teleflora has be designing keepsake flower arrangements for the past 70 year, so they provide exactly what their customer’s desire. this year they are upping the stakes with an unexpected sweepstakes of Diamonds and Roses. The contest began on January 14 and will continue through February 29.

Every time an order is placed with Teleflora florist for either the Diamonds, Rose Bouquet, or the Diamond cut Bouquet on Teleflora.com, a game piece with an entry code will be included. Customers will than be able to see if they have instantly won one of 1,000 diamond pendant necklaces, valued at $149 from Zales Jewelers. Once registered you are than automatically entered into the grand prize drawing for a gorges pair of white gold, round-cut diamond earrings, with a retail value of $50,000. The lucky winner will be contacted via phone on or around March 15. �

Jeweler Martin Katz and dressmaker Renee Strauss teamed up to create the most expensive wedding dress on record, featuring a stunning 150 carats worth of loose diamonds laced throughout the dress. The veil that is shown in the picture worn with the dress does sparkle, but it does not feature diamonds. Instead, the veil has some pretty rhinestones. But we figure, if you’re doing to drop $12 million on a dress, why not just have someone custom create a matching, diamond-laced veil? And while you’re at it, get some fancy diamond-studded shoes to add to the bling factor!

The dress hasn’t yet been sold, so if you’ve got your eye on it (as well as the $12 mil), Strauss and Katz would be more than willing to discuss a sale. Unlike other wedding dresses, this one will still have a high resale value after the wedding.

To see just how magnificent this dress is, check out the up-close photo after the break!

Thinking of selling diamonds or engagement rings on Craigslist Read this first.

SEATTLE — A Snoqualmie mother helped police in the arrest of a man Monday who is accused of stealing people’s engagement rings, reported KIRO 7 Eyewitness News.

Janet Barto said her son Brad had his engagement broken and wanted to sell the ring on the Craigslist Web site.

She said a man claiming to be a diamond broker purchased the ring for $5,200 but his check turned out to be a forgery.

An angry Barto started contacting others on Craigslist to warn them. One person said he was contacted by a similar man, so Barto had the Web site user set up a meeting with the man and then contacted Snoqualmie police.

The man and the alleged ring thief were set to meet at a Starbucks in lower Queen Anne while undercover police waited inside the building as well as outside in a truck in a nearby parking lot.

The police had waited 45 minutes when a man wearing a suit and carrying a briefcase arrived. The victim, Brad, identified the man and the task force moved in and arrested him.

The man could force fraud and forgery charges in court on Tuesday.

Investigators said they found several diamonds on the man but none of them was Brad’s.

Police said other victims may come forward.

We have recently reported about these luxury mobile phones coming to the market a lot these days.

Most recently, we reported about the Diamond Case,  which was being sold for $20,000 and was showcased at CES a few days back. Now, here is another luxury handset for these lavish users and is known as the Motorola KRZR by Goldstriker. 

The Motorola’s KRZR’s front contains 336 of the finest Swarovski’s diamonds. The diamonds are then embedded in platinum onto the phone.  

Goldstriker International, who is extremely known for making the exclusive gold and diamond mobile phones, iPods and other accessories, has made the handset.  

For the people who wish to purchase this phone they can visit the company’s website which is selling the phone for $1200 (approximately Rs. 47,390). This Motorola KRZR phone is available immediately.

When you make the big bucks you can’t be stuck with just any old USB drive like those common folks. You have to stand out from the crowd and spend a small fortune on a diamond encrusted zip drive. Personally I’d be happy with one that was a bright color, but then again I fall under that common category. 

The drive called ICE is being offered by miiSTOR. It is made of Hallmarked platinum and is hand-set with 456 white diamonds. Although I may be one of the few girls to ever say this, but 456 diamonds just seems like overkill.

The ICE USB drive is being sold for $29,000. Which happens to be really close to the price of my dream car, call me practical, but I’d pick the car.

Even on BlackBerry cases Diamonds are a girl’s best friend. Well that’s what Case-Mate seems to think anyway. Exclusively on display at CES is this diamond encrusted case with 3.5 carats and 15 grams of gold that will give your BlackBerry Curve that pimping look.

  It’s valued at $20,000 and will be given away to one randomly selected winner tomorrow at CES. So if you are there check out booth #9104 in the Central Hall you may get lucky. I know if I win - I’ll be off to the pawn shop for gambling money! If this is too rich for you blood check out their website for many other more affordable iPhone, iPod, and.

Think of it as an unexpected return on your romantic investment. As long as you kept the receipt.

If you bought a diamonds or a piece of diamond jewelry between 1994 and March 2006, you could be eligible for a share of a $295 million class action lawsuit settlement with South Africa’s De Beers Group, the world’s largest diamond producer.

“That sounds like a good idea; any time anybody can get some money back,” said James Oakley, 26, who purchased his wife’s wedding ring in 2005. “I mean, that’s great.”

 Read the rest of this report here

Electrical conductivity     

   Other specialized applications also exist or are being developed, including use as semiconductors. Some blue diamonds are natural semiconductors, in contrast to most other diamonds, which are excellent electrical insulators. 

Toughness      

   Toughness relates to a material ability to resist breakage from forceful impact. 3.4MN, has been measures the toughness of natural diamonds. This is actually good compared to other gemstones, but poor compared to most engineering materials. 

Color 

     Diamonds can occur in nearly any color. Yellow and brown are by far the most common chosen colors. “Black diamonds are not truly black, they just contain numerous dark inclusions that give the gems their dark appearance. Colored diamonds contain impurities or structural defects that cause the coloration, while pure or nearly pure diamonds are transparent and colorless. The most common impurity, nitrogen, causes a slight to intense yellow coloration depending upon the type and concentration of nitrogen present.

A blue diamond goes for nearly $8 million dollars.   

Identification          

    Diamonds can be identified through their high thermal conductivity.  Their high refractive index is also indicative, but other material has similar refractivity. Diamonds do cut glass, but they as well easily scratches other diamonds, but this damages both diamonds.

Material Properties            

    Since the materials exception physical characteristics diamonds have been adapted for many uses. Naturally occurring diamonds have a density ranging from 3.15 to 3.53g/cm, with very pure diamond typically extremely close to 3.52 g/cm. 

Hardness   

    Diamond is the hardest natural material known to be out there; hardness is defined as resistance to scratching. Diamond’s hardness has been known since antiquity, and is the source of its name. 

   The hardest diamonds in the world are from New England area in New South Wales, Australia. These diamonds are generally small, prefer to semi perfect octahedral, and are used to polish other diamonds. The hardest of the diamonds is considered to be a product of the crystal growth form, which is single stage growth crystal.

     The use of diamonds has historcially been associated with their hardness;this property makes diamond the ideal material for cutting and grinding tools. Diamonds also can be used to polish, cut, or wear away any material, including other diamonds. However, diamond is a poor choice for machining ferrous alloys at high speeds. Industrial-grade diamonds are either unsuitable for use as gems or synthetically produced, which lowers their value and makes their use economically feasible. 

   The hardness of diamonds contributes to its suitability as a gemstone. Because it can only be scratched by other diamonds, it maintains its polish extremely well. Unlike many other gems, it is well-suited to daily wear because of its resistance to scratching—perhaps contributing to its popularity as the preferred gem in an engagement ring or wedding ring, which are often worn every day. 

   Diamonds are an allotrope of carbon. It is the hardest known material and the third-hardest known material after aggregated diamond nanorods and ultra hard fullerite. Diamonds hardness and high dispersion of light make it useful for industrial applications and jewelry.          

   Diamonds are specifically renowned as a material with superlative physical qualities, other diamonds can only scratch them and so that makes excellent abrasives.          

   The name Diamond comes from ancient Greek adamas (“invincible”). They have been treasured as gemstones since their use as religious icons in ancient India and usage in engraving tools also dates to early human history. Because of increased supply, popularity of diamonds has risen since 19^th century.          

   About 49% of diamonds originate from central and southern Africa, although significant sources of the mineral have been discovered in Canada, India, Russia, Brazil, and Australia. They are mined from kimberlite and lamproite volcanic pipes, which brought to the surface the diamond crystals from deep in the Earth where the high pressure and temperature enables the formation of the crystals. The mining and distribution of natural diamonds are subjects of frequent controversy such as with concerns over the sale of conflict diamonds (aka blood diamonds) by African paramilitary groups.