maxspinel
Shiny_Rock
- Joined
- Jul 7, 2005
- Messages
- 193
I love colored stones/diamonds. The price of the pink and blue diamonds is too outrageous. Either one has to ditch out an obscene amount of money or all you can get is a stone so tiny that no one would ever notice that it is a diamond.
It seems that the price is still relatively reasonable for the orange, green and especially brown diamonds. It is hard to find true orange and true green and they normally command also an astronomical price. However, the market still has some relatively good sized yellowish orange and gray-yellowish green with prices competitive to white diamonds. The yellowish oranges look pretty nice but the gray-yellowish greens are not as attractive since they look kind of olive.
Also, some people advise collecting fancy brown diamonds since they are such a bargain. They claimed that the browns are also getting rare as the Argyle mine that produces the pink/red diamonds, which is also a major source of browns, will be mined out soon. (?)
Are these stones worth collecting since they are not as popular when compared to the pink, blue and yellow diamonds? As for the browns, when any another valuable primary color such as pink, orange and yellow are modified by a secondary hue of brown, the price drops tremendously. Also, the browns are not rare so it does not seem to have the potential to appreciate in value.