Diamond Labs. Top quality diamonds at knock down prices? This is the promise offered by a series of recent scientific breakthroughs, which have enabled the laboratory production of both coloured and colourless diamonds.
But these new synthetic stones are bad news for the world's largest diamond trader, De Beers, and the company has set up a vastly expensive scientific division to find ways to distinguish their natural diamonds from these cheaper jewels. Producer Paul Olding ; Editor Matthew Barrett (AD)