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Gold/Mining/Energy : Twin Mining (formerly Twin-Gold) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Letmebe Frank who wrote (300)	2/20/2002 12:00:05 AM
From: russet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 613

Frank,... No expert in colored diamonds, but my understanding is that deeply, evenly colored diamonds are good. I believe deep red is the rarest, and therefore the most expensive per carat. The other rules apply,...carat, cut, clarity, absence of occlusions and imperfections. Traditionally lightly colored diamonds were thought of as being defective colorless ones, but these perceptions can change with time and trends as with all fashion. There are techniques in the trade to change colorless diamonds into colored ones,...but the treatment does not run through the entire diamond (only a surface effect) so you have to be careful of this scam. The website below allows you to search their database for diamonds of all kinds,...fun to do but don't let the Mrs see it or it could cost you a lot of money (gggggggggggggg) http://www.vandaaz.com/vandaaz/COLDIA.HTML Available in a stunning array of natural (untreated) colors, from light lavender pink to fancy yellow, cognac and coffee brown, orange-brown and gray-light-blue. Van-Daaz is offering you these precious ... Rarer colors such as intense yellow, deep pink or green are also sourced upon request. Prices vary with Color ( Yellow is the most common color, while Pink, Blue and Red are rarer colors, and increasingly scarce in this order), the intensity of color (moving from Faint, to Very Light, Light, Fancy Light (FL), Fancy Intense (FI), Fancy Dark (FDA), Fancy Deep to the most intense Fancy Vivid), its distribution (even or not), saturation (light, moderate, high) and tone. Not all grading reports nor all grading laboratories employ the same terminology and parameters. As a rule, words such as "fancy", "dark", "intense", "deep" are indicators of better and more impressive color and higher pricing.