Russian Lab Diamonds Have Been a Cover Story for 30 Years
Russian Lab Diamonds Have Been a Cover Story for 30 Years It’s all about the timing. If you look at the last 10 years of the diamond market, specifically the "Lab Grown" sector, it is impossible to explain the current reality with standard economics. You have a market that held steady for years, then collapsed by 80% in the span of three months, exactly coinciding with a G7 embargo on Russian naturals. The "Russian Lab Diamond" doesn't exist. It is, and always has been, a Russian Treated Natural. The technology they claim is for "growing" stones is actually the technology for laundering them. The Root Cause: The 1990s Origin (Growth vs. Treatment) The lie begins in the 1990s. While Russian scientists in Novosibirsk were famous for their BARS (Split Sphere) presses, they claimed this massive hardware was for growing industrial grit. In reality, they were perfecting the same technology General Electric developed in 1999: High-Pressure High-Temperature (H...