Value of diamonds if you made it into jewelry and value by themselves

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Thenew stones came free of charge. A 26 carat orange diamond he found. Also what he thinks is a sapphire.

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Since it is a natural orange diamond found that way what do you think the color intensity is. Ex fancy vivid orange diamond?

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Caveat Emptor. Frankly, you need to study a lot more before you continue to buy any more gem materials. Hopefully you paid with a credit card so you have up to six months to make a chargeback for Not as Described.

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No No No NO! don’t believe a word this seller is telling you… return the stones and demand a refund… open a case with Etsy to get the seller banned…

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Please get your money back. You got scammed, those aren’t diamonds or sapphires.

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Just to improve clarity of meaning … Diamond crystals form in the Cubic habit, but can exhibit trigons on the crystal faces, edges or ribs.

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It is not an orange diamond. Natural orange diamonds are exceptionally rare, second only to red diamonds. No honest seller would simply give you one, even in the rough. Additionally, natural orange diamonds have only been found in Australia and South Africa. Please heed all poster’s advice given here as you have been taken advantage of.

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None of this rocks you show here, & the next ones too are worth 1 cent. You have been robbed.

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Like the others said, you were robbed. :orange_heart:. Maybe the seller doesn’t know anything about what he sold you, which isn’t good either.

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The stones are rubbish. They look nothing like what you say they are. One minute you say diamonds then say sapphires then going back to diamond shows obvious confusion on your part and obvious misrepresentation by the seller = scammed.

I am no expert far from it but am always curious. I once asked a gemologist/geologist who had been overseas looking for new diamond leases how would any of us lay people know a rough diamond if we were ever lucky enough.
I was told,…

  1. Lick it !
    Apparently diamonds are water repellent and if you lick them they will stay dry.
  2. Drippy tap test
    Being water repellent (hydrophobia? or something like that) put a drip or two on flat part of dry stone, if it spreads making stone wet it’s not diamond but if drips just sit there like a pimple probably is.
  3. Fire (this one frightened me)
    Heat the stone with lighter candle ECT for about 30 seconds to get it really hot them shove it in cold water. Apparently diamonds are the only thing that can withstand the sudden temperature change without shattering ( think it was due to the carbon).
    Anyway that’s what I was told by someone that should know, so maybe give it all a try.
    Because I really don’t like the look of the crappy stones and curious to find out what they are and if the tests work
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Nothing here is a diamond. I’m a gemologist and just looking at all your picks you have quartz and not sure hat the orange thing is but not diamond and definitely not worth 300.

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Yeah, being a gemologist I wouldn’t do any of those tests. Diamond testers are affordable. If you are going to dabble in stones it’s probably a good investment

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