[Jewelry making - Article 00752] - Re: [Orchid] Gemesis laboratory grown diamonds

[Zen Sojourner]

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>        It was also interesting to note that many of the few reps were
>     in podunk locations. 

    Scottsdale?  LA?  Chicago?  Albequerque?  Fort Worth?  Houston?
    Milwaukee?  Tuscon?  San Francisco? St. Petersburg?  Tulsa?  Salt
    Lake City?  Honolulu? 

    You have a mighty strange idea of what constitutes a "podunk
    location".... 

    As for the gems themselves, I see no reason whatsoever to badmouth a
    gem just because it was laboratory grown.  It may not be these guys
    (in fact I'm pretty sure its a competitor) but somebody out there is
    making a diamond so close to natural that it takes hundreds of
    thousands of dollars worth of lab equipment to differentiate - and
    the jury was still out, last I heard, on how reliable even the
    EXPENSIVE methods of testing were going to prove to be. 

    Frankly, if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and walks like
    a duck, its a duck.  Its specious to argue the merits of one stone
    over another merely because one was dug up out of the ground (and
    belongs to a tightly-controlled cabal controlled by a single family
    who are already wealthy beyond MY wildest dreams) and one was created
    in a lab. 

    I never much cared for diamonds anyway.  They're strictly overrated
    as a gemstone.  Lots of industrial uses, though. 

Sojourner

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