How Diamonds Get Their Color, Sotheby's Diamonds
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Not all valuable diamonds are colorless or white. In fact, a variety of minerals, from nitrogen to boron, can affect a gem’s hue – as well as its value.
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Diamond with rare pink color, clarity could get $35 million at auction
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The Everlasting Brilliance of Fancy Colored Diamonds, Luxury Week
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Russian royal gems, rare coloured diamonds on Geneva auction block - Sotheby's
A 7.49 Carat Cut-Cornered Square Modified Brilliant-Cut Diamond, Y-Z Color, VS2 Clarity, Diamonds Online, Jewellery
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Two 100+ Carat Pear-Shaped Diamonds Share Top Billing at Sotheby's NY – Beeghly & Co.
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More Signed Jewels, Fewer Fancy Colored Diamonds At Geneva Jewelry Auctions
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The Williamson Pink Star-One of the Purest, Pinkest Diamonds Ever to Appear at Auction To be offered at Sotheby's this Autumn, Press Release
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Super Rare, Purple-Pink Diamond up for Auction, Could Fetch $38 Mln
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A 3.05 Carat Pear-Shaped Diamond, N Color, SI1 Clarity, Diamonds Online, Color and Brilliance, Jewellery
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15 Colored Diamonds in Blue, Pink, Yellow, Green & All Shades in Between, Jewelry
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What one rock endured to become the largest, flawless diamond in the world