• tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
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    11 hours ago

    I wonder if there’s anyone interested creating lab diamonds that have imperfections that essentially become indistinguishable from the mined ones. There wouldn’t be any money in it, but they could theoretically crash the blood diamond market.

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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      3 hours ago

      Its already happened, its why big diamond cartels etch symbols into diamonds. They literally can’t tell the difference anymore.

      Its not super common for them to do that as its at least unethical and illegal in some places. Plus unless your literally trying to counterfeit, why would you want a flawed diamond?