Yellow Diamonds

By: Woro Swasti

yellow diamond ring

Natural fancy color diamonds are so rare, especially fancy yellow diamond. That’s why fancy yellow diamond is much more expensive than ordinary diamonds.

People developed processes to treat some diamonds to alter their color. These treated diamonds are called enhanced diamonds. Perhaps if you find yellow diamond in some jewelry store, and it’s not very expensive, then it would be the enhanced yellow diamond.

One of the largest natural fancy yellow diamond ever discovered is Tiffany Yellow Diamond, with 287.42 carats weight in the rough. This big diamond was discovered in Kimberley mine, South Africa, in 1878. When it was cut into a cushion shape, this yellow diamond has 90 facets an weighed 128.54 carats.

The yellow diamond is becoming more and more popular each year. Most of the large and intense yellow diamonds are discovered in South Africa.

Yellow diamond engagement ring is a perfect gift for a woman. This ring is very beautiful and unique. However, its rarity makes this ring costs a lot more than ordinary diamond rings.

You cannot buy yellow diamonds from any jewelry store because it is very rare. But you can be sure that your engagement ring is worth because of its certification. So you must always be sure that the gem is a certified diamond. You can also customize the shape and size the yellow diamond engagement ring when you purchase it.

Yellow Diamond Grading Scale Executive Summary about Yellow Diamond by Anne Moss Rogers

The prices of colored diamonds depend on the saturation of color. Yellow diamonds are graded face up. White diamonds are graded face down. The GIA assigns a grade and pricing depends on the color, the cut, the clarity and the carat weight.

The wide variations on this theoretical guide are due to the range of colors within each of these grades and the diamond’s cut amplifies the natural body color. There are also comments on a GIA that can knock the price down like a grade of “uneven color”. Sometimes this is obvious, sometimes it’s not. The unobvious ones are going to be a good buy.

There are also “qualifiers” and they are not even part of the scale, but do make the pricing even more complicated. Qualifiers like brownish yellow, yellowish brown or fancy orange-brown yellow for instance. The word “fancy” on a GIA report equals premium pricing, by the way. The split grades (W-X, Y-Z) are more affordable but still distinctly yellow, particularly once set. Many prefer the lighter yellows and think they sparkle more.