Gems
De Beers to Sell Diamonds Made in a Lab
- New strategy will undercut prices of lab-grown diamonds
- Company had long vowed never to sell man-made diamond jewelry
De Beers Is Going to Sell Diamonds From a Lab
De Beers, which almost single-handedly created the allure of diamonds as rare, expensive and the symbol of eternal love, now wants to sell you some party jewelry that is anything but.
The company announced today that it will start selling man-made diamond jewelry at a fraction of the price of mined gems, marking a historic shift for the world’s biggest diamond miner, which vowed for years that it wouldn’t sell stones created in laboratories. The strategy is designed to undercut rival lab-diamond makers, who having been trying to make inroads into the $80 billion gem industry.