What size for gia certification? Argyle fancy light blue

[KirstLWA]

Hi there

Just after some advice!

I've found some fancy light blue round diamonds from a reputable jeweler who says they are argyle stones but doesn't have the paperwork as he has had them for a long time. He has many other certified colored stones.

They are 0.032 in size and are around $800 each. I would be buying 13 of them for a u prong half eternity ring.

My question is, how small would Gia certify stones? I'd like to ask them to be certified so I know exactly what I'm buying but don't know if Gia cert such small stones!

Any advice is appreciated!

Thanks!

 

[valeria101]

GIA has a relatively new certification procedure for stones such as these. (see website - I cannot pull itup right now). I would want the paper, if only becausee once the stones are set, it would no longer be possible to get it ...

How useful this is ? Oh, I do not know ... Perhaps the ring will never enter another transaction where its identity might need proof, yet ... who can tell.

 

[Nosean]

The "blue" diamonds from Argyle are hydrogen rich grayish blue violet diamond ( all the blue-violet tender stones are) and darker colored.

Light blue should be IIb diamond ( boron content) to my knowledge.
But maybe a diamond expert can help.

They are expensive - so a GIA report makes sense.

By the way there are pretty synthetic blues too - and no problem to produce CVD diamond colored blue

 

[MollyMalone]

The current GIA price list for various kinds of reports re colored diamonds:
https://www.gia.edu/doc/GIA_ColoredDiamondServices_100117_USD.pdf