COLORS
Fancy color diamonds come in many colors: yellow, blue, green, orange, pink, red, purple, black, and white!
FANCY COLOR DIAMOND
Fancy color diamonds come in almost any color you can imagine! They are the most valuable gems of all, because they are so hard to find. Many fancy color diamonds are yellow or brown. They also come in red, green, purple, orange, pink, blue, black, gray, and fancy white.
HISTORY
1500
YEARS AGO
In India, people owned colored diamonds according to class. For example, priests could have white diamonds and warriors could have brown ones. Kings could have any color!
FAMOUS EMERALD
Since 1668, the Hope Diamond has made history through its owners. Once owned by kings, jewelry collectors, and an American heiress, it is now at the Smithsonian Institution.
what's in a name?
DIAMOND
[dye-mund]
(noun) Diamond comes from the Greek word adamas which means “invincible.” For being the hardest material on earth, that is the perfect name for this gem!
