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Natural Colored Diamonds
When most people think of colored stone jewelry, their minds turn to rubies, sapphires, and emeralds and in most cases they would be right. However, for the jewelry connoisseur, they should also consider the most beautiful, brightest, and durable gemstone of all – the diamond! Most people don't realize that diamonds come in colors other than clear. The jewelry industry calls these diamonds "white". However, the knowledgeable jewelry aficionado knows that the most beautiful diamonds in the world come in a rainbow of colors.
First of all, the most desired colored diamonds are all natural. This means the diamonds come out of the ground the color they are polished to and are not treated or modified in any way to bring out or enhance their color. A diamond must be certified by a gemological laboratory to be called natural. Natural colored diamonds represent less than 1% of all diamond rough processed.
Natural colored diamonds may be one primary color or modified with a secondary hue or hues. Natural colored diamonds are also graded for color differently than white diamonds. Naturally colored diamonds are graded in this order: faint, very light, light, fancy light, fancy, fancy dark, fancy intense, fancy deep, and fancy vivid. With most natural colored diamonds, the more desirable stones are the ones closer to fancy vivid.
The least rare color of natural colored diamonds is yellow. Natural yellow diamonds get their color from the presence of nitrogen in the carbon lattice. One of the best known yellow diamonds in the world is the "Incomparable", a 407.48 carat shield-shaped step cut diamond graded fancy brownish-yellow, but internally flawless. Connoisseur Louis Glick is the owner of this diamond after twice trying unsuccessfully to sell the "Incomparable" at auction with a reserve price of $20 million.
Next most rare are the pink diamonds. Natural pink diamonds are formed by a "plastic deformation" of the crystal as it is being formed. Before the discovery of the Argyle Mine in Northwestern Australia in 1985, natural pink diamonds were far rarer than they are now. With the discovery of the mine, natural pink diamonds became more abundant and 90% of the world's supply come from here. Some famous pink diamonds include the Darya-ye Noor Diamond with an approximate weight of 182 carats! The Graff Pink is a 24.78 carat emerald cut fancy intense pink diamond, and is the most expensive jewel ever sold at auction at $46 million! The Steinmetz Pink, the largest fancy vivid pink graded diamond, was unveiled in 2003 and weighs 59.6 carats. Finally, pink diamonds got celebrity notice when Ben Affleck gave Jennifer Lopez a 6 carat pink diamond engagement ring!
Rarer than pink diamonds are the orange diamonds. Natural orange diamonds get their color by the presence of nitrogen and defects in the crystal lattice. Because the color orange is a combination of yellow and red, the primary colors of orange diamonds range from red orange to yellow orange. The most famous orange diamond is the "Pumpkin Diamond", purchased at auction by Ronald Winston of Harry Winston Jewelers the day before Halloween and renamed because of its color and the significance of the purchase date. It is graded fancy vivid orange and weighs 5.54 carats. It gathered further significance when it was worn in a ring by Halle Berry at the 2002 Academy Awards when she won Best Actress. Its current value is $3 million!
The next rarest diamond is the blue diamond. Natural blue diamonds get their color from the presence of boron in their structure. The most famous blue diamond in the world is also the best known – The Hope Diamond. Weighing in at 45.52 carats and fancy deep grayish blue, this allegedly cursed diamond was donated to the Smithsonian Institute by its final owner, Harry Winston.
Among the rarest of the natural colored diamonds are the purple diamonds. True purple diamonds are almost non-existent and are created by unusually high amounts of hydrogen in the structure of the diamond. Most natural purple diamonds are modified by pink so that they are known as pinkish-purple diamonds. Most are smaller than two carats and most are cut as round brilliants. There are three famous purple diamonds known in the world and little is known about two of them – the Royal Purple Heart Diamond, and the Supreme Purple Star Diamond. The purple diamond came to the forefront in 2003 when professional athlete Kobe Bryant gave his wife an 8 carat purple diamond ring after it was discovered he had a marital infidelity.
Even rarer are natural green diamonds. They are unusual in that their formation is not from any defects found in the diamond. They are formed from exposure to radiation that occurs naturally in the soil, most likely from uranium ore. Natural green diamonds, because of the method of their formation, are often only green on the surface. There is only one well-known natural green diamond – The Dresden Green. The Dresden Green weighs approximately 41 carats, and gets its name from Dresden, the capital of Saxony in Germany.
The rarest of all natural colored diamonds are red diamonds. They are formed by the same process as pink diamonds. There are only a few diamonds that GIA has graded as Fancy Red (unmodified). The largest of these is the Moussaieff Red, a 5.11 carat triangular brilliant cut diamond. The reddest red diamond is the Rob Red, a 0.59 carat pear shaped fancy intense red diamond. It is also unique in that it is relatively clean with a VS1 clarity grading.
As you can tell, natural colored diamonds are available in every color of the rainbow and then some. For most people interested in colored stones, they are most likely to be satisfied with gemstones since the colors are more to their liking. But for those who want the exotic and can afford it, natural colored diamonds make an exciting and luxurious choice.
About the Author
Bryan works at Images Jewelers (www.imagesjewelers.com) , a fine jewelry manufacturer and retailer in Elkhart, Indiana, and a leading manufacturer and retailer of custom jewelry on the internet. If you want to find out more about Natural Colored Diamonds, see our expanded article on SQUIDOO (www.squidoo.com/natural-colored-diamonds)!!
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The Variety of Goldendoodle Colors
Goldendoodles come in a variety of colors. What many people assume is that they are all GOLD! Nope! A goldendoodle can actually be many colors! Why? Because the Poodle has such a wide variety of color genes in its genetic scope. Goldendoodles can be of any color and have any marking. There is no such thing as a "rare" colored Goldendoodle dog. The most popular color in a goldendoodle is apricot...with cream being second.....red being third and we have found that Black is the least popular color of all colors in a goldendoodle and We can not figure out why! A black goldendoodle (nicknamed "Nictendoodle" by our doodle world) is very gorgeous! They are the very same dog as the lighter colored doodles. It is very sad to see so many people disregard a dog just because of its color or marking.
We see many dogs of various breeds who are black, being picked over for the lighter colors. Those who do this miss out on the beauty of owning a very gentle, loving, family-oriented, shaggy low shedding dog who would do just about anything you ever asked of it...just to please its owner! Many fantastic dogs are over-looked based on color or gender and I think this is a down-right shame.
Since creating the Goldendoodle in 1999, we have seen a huge variety of colors! The following are the colors we have personally observed, to date:
*Apricot (light and dark)
*Cream
*Red
*Black
*White
*Chocolate
*Silver
*Silver Frost
*Silver phantom
*Parti colors
*Tri-colors
*Apricot with black tips
*Black and tan
*Black with white markings
*Red phantom
*Silver phantom with gold hues
Goldendoodles can also have varied colored eyes! We have personally observed Goldendoodles with blue eyes, brown eyes, green eyes, amber eyes and multi-colored eyes such as having one blue eye/one green eye or one blue eye/one brown eye. Goldendoodles can have markings anywhere on their coat. This is very common. Be wary of any breeder who claims they have "rare" colored or "rare" marked Goldendoodles. This means they are very inexperienced and are not familiar with their Poodles pedigree and lineage.
So what is a Goldendoodle, you ask?
A Goldendoodle is a hybrid who has one parent a Poodle and one parent a Golden Retriever. The size of the Poodle sire can be a Toy, Miniature or Standard and of course, the Golden Retriever can be of any size.
This Poodle hybrid has been steadily growing in popularity because of the less shedding coat and while many fanatic purebred breeders are appalled at the idea of a Goldendoodle, families seeking a family pet who has very little shedding but has the Golden Retriever temperament are jumping for joy!
So much erroneous information about the Goldendoodle can be located everywhere over the internet because many people jumped on the "Doodle bangwagon" when they saw the popularity of the Goldendoodle rise and thought there were bucks to be made. As predicted by us back when we first started in 1999, there is a Goldendoodle breeder on nearly every street corner now and unfortunately, we are watching the Goldendoodle fall into the same pattern as that of the purebred dog. New and inexperienced breeders creating them improperly....backbreeding, inbreeding and also advertising false information such as "rare colors" or "never shedding" or even the worst....saying the inbred or backbred Goldendoodle is much better than the first generation doodle.
We have been a Goldendoodle breeder since 1999 and before we even were aware there was an actual name to the hybrid (which came about from the Australians), we called our pups "Curly Goldens". Only after creating our first litter were we aware that Australian breeders called them "Goldendoodles" and had begun creating this Poodle hybrid as an assistance dog for those who had allergies to dogs with shedding hairs. The Goldendoodle is highly intelligent and very easy to train. Their trainability is extremely high and they work out very well for those who have allergy issues. Many people assume that Goldendoodles are just one color but they aren't.
They come in all colors; all sizes; with various markings to include eyes that can be blue, brown, amber, green or multi colored.
About the Author
Dee Gerrish has been a private, professional breeder since 1996. She founded Goldendoodle World in 1999 and has written about Goldendoodles extensively. Her Goldendoodle World website is very educational, extensive and shows a comprehensive look at the Goldendoodle hybrid. Dee Gerrish is the first breeder to register the Goldendoodle hybrid with a kennel club in the United States. Dee is also one of the original founders for the Goldendoodle dog in the southern region of the United States.
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