WELCOME TO UNEARTHED.
Fashionable, affordable laboratory-grown diamond jewelry by Reeds Jewelers. The Unearthed Collection features beautiful lab-grown diamond solitaire and halo rings, earrings, pendants and bracelets, all priced for the savvy modern shopper. Unearthed diamonds are imported directly by Reeds and have the same properties as a natural grown diamond at a lower price.
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LAB-GROWN AND MINED DIAMONDS?
Our lab-grown diamonds are created in weeks in a precisely controlled laboratory environment. Natural mined diamonds take centuries to grow beneath the earth. Otherwise, lab-grown diamonds and mined diamonds are chemically, physically and optically identical. Both are “real” diamonds.
HOW ARE LAB-GROWN DIAMONDS MADE?
There are two methods. CVD (chemical vapor deposition) and HPHT (high pressure high temperature). All of the diamonds used in our UnEarthed jewelry are HPHT.
CVD uses ultra-pure carbon-rich gases in a controlled environment. It produces Type IIa diamonds, which are quite rare in nature and account for less than two percent of all mined diamonds. Type IIa diamonds have no, or almost no, impurities; they are the purest, highest-quality diamonds.
HPHT, used since the 1950s, puts a pure, solid carbon source under high pressure and high temperature. In the presence of a catalyst, the pressurized and heated carbon crystalizes into diamond. HPHT is sometimes used to improve the color of mined or lab-grown diamonds.
Unearthed
WELCOME TO UNEARTHED.
Fashionable, affordable laboratory-grown diamond jewelry by Reeds Jewelers. The Unearthed Collection features beautiful lab-grown diamond solitaire and halo rings, earrings, pendants and bracelets, all priced for the savvy modern shopper. Unearthed diamonds are imported directly by Reeds and have the same properties as a natural grown diamond at a lower price.
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LAB-GROWN AND MINED DIAMONDS?
Our lab-grown diamonds are created in weeks in a precisely controlled laboratory environment. Natural mined diamonds take centuries to grow beneath the earth. Otherwise, lab-grown diamonds and mined diamonds are chemically, physically and optically identical. Both are “real” diamonds.
HOW ARE LAB-GROWN DIAMONDS MADE?
There are two methods. CVD (chemical vapor deposition) and HPHT (high pressure high temperature). All of the diamonds used in our UnEarthed jewelry are HPHT.
CVD uses ultra-pure carbon-rich gases in a controlled environment. It produces Type IIa diamonds, which are quite rare in nature and account for less than two percent of all mined diamonds. Type IIa diamonds have no, or almost no, impurities; they are the purest, highest-quality diamonds.
HPHT, used since the 1950s, puts a pure, solid carbon source under high pressure and high temperature. In the presence of a catalyst, the pressurized and heated carbon crystalizes into diamond. HPHT is sometimes used to improve the color of mined or lab-grown diamonds.
