Why Lab-Grown Gems Are Becoming The Real Thing
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 เม.ย. 2022
- In a bid to find sustainable solutions for a historically destructive industry, Anabela Chan makes jewelry from lab-grown gems and recycled metals. The result? Nature-inspired ornaments worn by the likes of Rihanna and Taylor Swift.
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Finally more people are realizing that diamonds are a BS industry when there are far superior and cheaper alternatives!
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And the sustainable jewelry is spectacular, btw!
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When cultured pearl was introduced by Kokichi Mikimoto, it was heavily criticized. Now, cultured pearls are the norm. And it is a sustainable gem. Pearl farms have higher biodiversity than surrounding seas and many farms are carbon neutral, some farms in Japan are even carbon negative. Lab grown diamonds will be the better fit
It might be a BS industry but diamonds are worthy of admiration. Only a handful of gemstones are hard enough to last a lifetime of being worn and diamond sits atop that list.
Fantastic. Wish more people were thinking like this fantastic woman and gave up on the old, stupid way of sourcing diamonds.
agree
She is doing it just because its EASIER to source and more profit margin for her.
I promise you ethics are NOT the reason she does this, it's the fact that they are a THIRD of the price and easily sourced.
Diamond ring was not a wedding tradition until De Beers make it so about 100 years ago.
I fully approve of lab grown gems.
Thousands of years ago a king might wield a sword made out of meteorite metal. Utterly exclusive.
Today a sword can be made with quality industrially produced steel that any king from those ages would sell his family members for, and the cost is entirely down to the crafter's talent.
The alternative metal use is also great.
I am currently baked right now, but that was a very deep as well as truthful statement. It makes you think why some of us are so interested in past ways of living/hunting/crafting etc. A uncontacted or native tribe would look at us crazy if for instance we wanted to know and ask "How one would make a bow and arrows out of everything you see around you?", which don't get me wrong they have for centuries if not longer…while you have a Hoyt RX-7 compound bow with Gold Tip Velocity PRO 300 Arrows with 2-Inch Raptor Vane Arrows.
You can get ice from a glacier, or you can get ice from trays in your freezer. Either way, it's the exact same frozen H2O.
How absolutely fascinating. Loved listening to Anabella …It’s so incredible how she is creating and producing jewelry but also in how she is sourcing her materials
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I like when I am not afraid to wear my jewelry, when I'm not constantly checking that it is still there.
She's able to say that none of her jewelry is using blood stones
This was super inspiring! Amazing stuff and huge respect to Anabela. Cheers
Agreee!
I have always hated diamonds I felt they were cold and inhuman never understood this growing up until I watched my first documentary on how diamonds were mined and I finally understood why I felt the way that I did. I love the idea of the lab grown diamond because of the fact we can use the ashes of loved ones human and pet alike and have a diamond grown from the ashes but also have them in a range of colours I have a pink diamond that was given to me by my husbands grandparents I use to we’re it all the time thinking that because it was pink it was not worth anything, umm oops we were out one day walked past a jewellery shop in China Town where they had a whole window display of pink and coloured diamonds we were shocked to see one the same size I was wearing and how much it was worth so no I don’t wear it everyday anymore if I lost it I would be heart broken. We don’t have children to pass the ring down to but hubbies half brother has just gotten married so we are hoping they will have children and we can then pass it on to them when the time comes.
Fascinating! I have always loved stones. So many different colours. Diamonds are very pretty but I love the colours of blue topaz, aquamarine, emerald, ruby, sapphire, jade, all the myriad of jasper, all the agates, dumorturite, turquoise, obsidian, malachite, the many quartzes…. When set in gold or silver they are so valuable and beautiful. I love the idea if working with aluminium, copper, brass, steel for a change.
I hope these technologies don't get monopolized by few companies in few countries to keep the prices in check. Make the barrier to entry cheaper, sell these carbon capture and methane ovens machines to all countries.
I already imagine people getting locked up for illegal mining labs 😂😂😂
Fun fact. Two weeks of running these machines equals to one year's worth of fuel for driving a sedan car
@@Johnne009 can you provide the source please?
@@Johnne009 still cheaper than "natural" ones
Love her creations 💚 thank you for this interview to show us how she sources and creates. It's a true rare gem when the ideology and the person behind the products are equally beautiful 😍💎
Really enjoyed this 👌 As a material scientist I know we can make gemstones in a more sustainable way.
This is fascinating!! This inspires me to make jwellery from these beautiful gems for my future wife. I'll be delighted to see her wearing these gemstones.
Thanks for sharing such wonderful content with your audience. It is very interesting stuff. I appreciate all the work put into it. Sincere thanks!
This was exceptionally inspirational and her art is amazing. I absolutely agree with her concept of art instead of building status symbols with gems.
Very interesting. First time I actually liked a piece of jewelry. She is an actual artist
I think it’s great, because people can now focus on their artistic expression of jewelry. And Don’t have to worry about the dirty business
I will never buy another natural diamond. My last two lab grown pieces are just amazingly beautiful!
This is fascinating and the pieces are beautiful. I'm concerned about their sources of gold though. Removing the gold from electronics is a dangerous process often performed by the poorest people in countries like India. Why didn't the show their gold sources like they did the other components?
I never understood the appeal of diamonds, or why people liked them: to me, they’re just boring, colorless rocks. Salespersons would talk about a diamond’s “fire” and I’m like, “Okay, but have you ever seen a Fire Opal?” Now those are stunning! The only piece of jewelry I have that came out of the ground is my engagement ring, which we found in an antique store (blue sapphire surrounded by 6 tiny diamonds, circa 1920s). The rest of my jewelry collection is lab grown. I love the look of rubies, emeralds, sapphires, opals, etc., but I’m not paying out the ear for a stone that is potentially unethically sourced or mined in a war zone. Give me lab grown any day!
Recycled gold has nothing special about it. Whether it came from old jewelry, or recycled electronics, it still involves the removal and crushing of a ton or more of rock when it was mined. Much of the recycled gold comes from the work of incredibly impoverished third world countries where poor villagers pick over huge dumps filled with toxic waste to extract tiny amounts of gold in discarded circuit boards. I have a lot of respect for companies and artists who truly make an effort to repurpose discarded materials. On the other hand, I have zero regard for those who attempt to cloak their work in "earth-conciousness" that does not actually exist.
I’m of the same mind,,,Gems grown in a lab,, is that same from nature gems,,,great way to clean the air,,save resources ,,,and creat beautiful gems…
am waiting to see them make gold in the lab
How talented are these people, this lady is fantastic!
A great video!
Awesome!
What a beautiful video
"I have enough diamonds." - Marrie Antoinette.
O wow the pieces are beautiful.
That was really interesting.
What were the two circular bar things put into holes for at the start of the video? Bending and forming rings? Anyone know?
Shaping and bending yeah, you can see them being used later in the video 18:00
@@jimo1150 thanking youuuuu
Best documentary! We want bigger beautiful gemstones and amazing designs without the negative impact. Jewelry is supposed to be fun, playful and heartfelt expression. There is no room for destruction in the equation.
Fantastic stuff; I'd love to wear it.
This is so cool… in terms of both science and art. And humanity ❤
amazing!
I have been a collector, and proponent of lab grown gems for over twenty years. The finer quality lab grown gems are the penultimate of material sciences. Crystals of ruby and sapphire and emerald, grown using the "Flux process" invented by Carol Chatham, are superior in every way, to their earth mined counterparts. Indeed, the crystals thus grown, are beautiful enough to set in jewelery, without cutting or polishing of any kind.
awesome video!
Amazing.,,
In paintings and buildings it's the design and taste of the designer that counts. Not the value of the material
Sadly GIA certificates distinguish between lab-grown and natural gems. And natural gems have greater selling and reselling price.
Give it a generation or two and it will be rare to find anybody who cares about the difference.
In virtually ALL CASES, labgrown gems are superior in quality, to mined stones. If a flawless ruby represents nature's "one in a billion," lab grown crystals democratize those gems by making them widely available.
Beautiful and smart
Great documentary. I am gonna give lab stones a chance because of it.
I like the fact a lab grown diamond is as hard as a natural diamond.
That can be for forever for me, though I would like to obtain really cheap ones on the secondary market.
In the case of other lab grown gems like ruby and the like the uniformity of colour is a bit of a bore and being of lesser hardness than diamonds they can be damaged.
Only pure white well cut lab grown diamond appeals.
I also think lab grown diamond would show up natural gemstones like sapphire and opal beautifully.
Natural diamond need high pressure to be formed. Under low pressure Carbon would go into graphite (each one carbon atom is bonded to another 3 carbon atoms), and only when you add high pressure (at it has to be quite a high pressure), Carbon will form diamond (each one C atom is bonded to another 4 carbon atoms). And so, I always wonder, if you don't create any high pressure in your synthetic production process, how do you get the Carbon to go into the diamond and not into the graphite?
One pulls carbon out of the atmosphere and another emits it. I’m sold, might as well spend the same money on larger lab diamonds
"We discovered that there's not much carbon in a diamond"
Local man discovers conservation of matter. Next he'll be investigating how much water there is in an ice cube.
Complex way to say the alumunium is anodised
Would you rather have the original Mona Lisa or a copy of Mona Lisa?
yes, but (as an economics noob) won't the miners get less money this way?
I do still agree with all of the reasoning in the video
There is something called the Resource Curse, you can check it up... When a country starts exploiting some natural resource, it fails to give a decent life for the citizens that work in that industry, or that were expelled from the lands where the resource was found. That industry is the driver for misery, and when it's gone (when there is no longer that resource, or the demand has changed), the local population may get a better life by working in another industry, or going somewhere else to work
the miners always get "minimum wages", and today most of the work is mechanazed or dangerous in 3rd world
Wow! The pair of earrings she’s wearing is gorgeous! 👍👍👍
At last someone echoing the sentiment that fine jewellery is/are works of art that adorn and may be enjoyed by the wearer. Often the stones within the piece are not as important as the finished piece and yet so much emphasis is placed on the precious stones ignoring the superb craftsmanship employed to reveal the completed piece.
Who would have known. I gotta check what my ex gave me 😂😂
I agree with everything… But the rarity factor becomes less valuable. It’s all about supply and demand.
Favourite jewellery designer Anabela Chan 😍
Amazing
Earth natures are more amazing than destroying it.. Bravo 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏
17:30 It's obvious that 3D printing would eliminate the "Organized Chaos" in creation and labor of manufacturing such things.
wait is it possible to 3D print aluminum, gold or any other metal. I thought 3D (additivie) printing is only currently possible with hard or flexible plastics
@@DeusVult77763 I'm not in the know or even an armature enthusiast but I have seen articles discussing methods of it. I assume if manmade jewels are deemed worthy then why are artist still employing archaic metal work when there's such exciting new methods with increased precision?
Metal 3d printers have been around for decades they cost in the millions and fine jewellery snobs don't like machine printed stuff
@@DeusVult77763 True but that will change. Also, artists don't have to _buy_ the machine, just send file to be printed.
Usually 3D printing is being used in the jewelry industry to make the lost wax figure, as it leaves some structural micro cracks if you print with metal
..........And hopefully the lives of those who were mining diamonds in the old way will also have a slightly improved quality of life.....because all this talk about sustainable and less harm to the environment will not mean much if the true treasure -- that is people are not affected positively also.
Lucy is really in the Sky with Diamonds.
L.s.d
11:22 pm 8/6/2022
How could there be 4 grams of carbon in a 1 carat stone when 1 gram=5 carat 5:52 (perhaps you mean 4mg but I am not sure)
Maybe he meant to say 1/4 gram? (And yes, it's really 1/5 gram...) I couldn't figure out what he meant either... but the real figure makes his argument even stronger, by a factor of 20. It takes literal tons of resources to liberate very small amounts of diamond from the ground.
@@kellybraille Dear Kelly, if he meant to say 1/4 gram (and as you know, it's really 1/5 gram), then that would contradict the gentleman's statement that there is NOT much carbon in a diamond since, again, 1/5 of a gram=1 carat and that would mean that the entire diamond is made up of carbon... Do you think that's true? Because unless the laws of chemistry have changed, or I've been lied to, or perhaps I don't understand something, the last time I checked, the chemical formula for diamond was C →meaning carbon. Surely, I understand there are impurities within a diamond but still I would say the highest element within a diamond would be carbon.
I am by no means a fan of the natural diamond industry. In fact, I believe the natural diamond industry has been nothing but an elaborate marketing scheme. And indeed, lab-grown diamonds are so much better and more intelligent and more environmentally friendly than natural diamonds, not to mention the social goodness it brings so many people (by stopping blood diamonds). But does that mean we should take anybody's word without questioning it? I don't think so. There are more than a few bogus statements in this video, mostly said by the gentleman with the scarf.
Do you really think that it would take "digging of 1,100 tons of rock and exposure of 30 tons of toxic metal to the environment and the consumption of 5000 liters of water and the production of half a ton of greenhouse gas" to make A SINGLE ONE CARAT DIAMOND? That would not make any economic sense at all. I am not arguing natural diamond mining is not harmful to the environment. All I am saying is that these specific numbers may very well be just made up or not true just as It is not true that there are 4 grams of carbon in a 1-carat stone.
While I really like what she is doing and her aproach to making jewelry, I do not think the industry of high-class jewelry is ever become sustainable. With the lab-grown gemstones also there is the question of where does the energy to create them comes from. Because if it does not come from revewable sources, we can not really talk about a "sustainable" gems.
Where do their diamond seeds come from?😅
First from naturals diamonds, but now they can use diamonds seeds from other lab diamonds.
Adorable
How could there be not much carbon in a diamond? I thought the chemical formula of diamond was C which is Carbon.
Well they're not usually very big
Diamond is crystallized, compressed, carbon. It's difference is its density.
Finally
We can do what the Elves did and make gemstones
Now to make the Silmarils for real.
Get 100 random people on the street. Ask them to guess real/lab diamonds. if you can't tell the difference. Haha.
Lab diamonds are so pure and perfect that to fool the gem dealers they have resorted to adding impurities to their creations for minor flaws and subtle color changes and a bit of murkiness.
Cool women
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Shiny rocks, dirty pretty things. Stange planet
Wow, they can fix the financial system? How does it do it? Give every banker a trillion worth of diamonds? Would that satisfy their greed?
I am Dubbing these people the artisans of the third Millenium
Who else thought it's new artifacts from Genshin Impact?
I refuse to buy diamonds. Its ridiculous.
Why not use renewable gas aka biogas (biomethane)?
There is NO SUCH THING as laboratory grown tourmaline! Tourmaline has NEVER been successfully synthesized in gem quality. To say Lady GaGa wore lab grown tourmaline, is an outright LIE. I have great respect for the product of labs that grow true "synthetics" with identical chemical, physical, and optical qualities of mined stones. However, I have nothing but contempt for those who misrepresent IMITATIONS, such as silica glass, for true synthetic gems.
It was publicity for the designer. Bored at the end. Rich people never will be satisfied with synthetic gems 💎 ✨️.
Never the real thing !! That is a lie .
boycot natural diamond that destroy planet earth kudos tu lab diamond technology!
Any idea how those miners are making a living now that you’ve displaced their industry?
The carbon foot print for labs diamonds have not lessened … yet.
It’s coming.
100k for some tinfoil earnings 🤣
these people are con artists
🤓 but it’s not real 🤓
Still an advertisement with likely paid product placement, but at least it's better quality advertising.
Just a bunch of stones
Yes :) pretty stones with remarkable properties
And in 20 years. The market is flooded with gems at dirt cheap prices that it's not even prestigious anymore. Maybe I should really get into NFT. Hmm
Hating from the sideline I see
These are called trans diamonds lol
If you want to be a green industry. Why just use glass to replace diamond? The appearance could be the same.
If you had glass and a diamond next to each other in front of you, you would see the difference. Glass is crystal but diamonds are also magical.
Shiny stones for people with money 😊
Diamonds (both natural and lab) reflect light more than glass and they are harder-- meaning they are durable and scratch resistant.
I'm sure the small scale miners in Africa appreciate now that the western world is buying Chinese factory grown gem stones 🙄.
I mean any country can build a diamond factory. Get on with it then
I like how she pretends to actually make the jewelry 😂 you can tell by her hands she’s never made ANYTHING! 🤦🏻♂️
when u buy a diamond,u trying to tell people u have money to buy a diamond or u love someone ; a lab grown diamond means what?why would u buy a lab grown diamond ? u want use 1/3 price to show up or u want use 1/3 money to show love?
Because the other 2/3 can go into something actually useful, like a house.