How to not buy a blood diamond
Don't Buy a Blood Diamond | How to Avoid Conflict Stones
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Hi I'm Abby and I own
Abby Sparks Jewelry.
In this video today
I'm gonna
talk around conflict free
engagement rings and
conflict-free diamonds, so
by the end of this video
you're gonna be a pro and you're
gonna know the
difference between
all of these, and prepared when going to
stores or working
with somebody like me on what these things are.
So the first
question to ask is,
"Where did this stone come from?"
There's a lot of gray kind of
area. You're gonna
have to put a ton of research,
or your jeweler or
designer is
gonna have to put in
a ton of research in to figure out
where that stone came from,
and you may not be able to.
So really it comes down to origin.
If you're going to
go with a mined diamond,
from the earth, natural, then really
like where we are
right now, today, we really
have one great option for mined diamonds
and that's a
Canadian Diamond. It is certified,
it has an inscription,
we know that the
standards were not full
of conflict in obtaining
this stone.
The second thing I want to
talk about in terms of
conflict-free is lab-grown
stones, or cultured stones,
specifically diamonds. So we know
those mined options, I
just talked about those.
If all else fails and you're
like I just don't even
want a mined option,
I want 100% certainty,
then I think lab-grown
diamonds are a tremendous option.
The Federal Trade Commission
just said only
a couple weeks ago,
that lab-grown diamonds and
mined diamonds are both real
diamonds. Diamond that is mined
and a diamond that is lab-grown,
they're the same thing,
their origin is just different.
Okay so the third thing I
want to talk about is heirloom stones
heirloom diamonds to be specific.
So what
are these? These are
stones, diamonds you know, typically center
diamonds that have
been in your family
that you've been gifted from your aunt, or your grandmother,
or your mom.
So why does this matter?
We can take that
stone and make a new
engagement ring, even though that stone
is 100 years old, 50
years old, 70 years old -
how does this matter in terms of
conflict free or not?
So my view is Do we know that
this exact stone was sourced
conflict-free? No,
I'll be really frank, we don't.
Because 50, 75, 100 years ago we
didn't have this information.
But what we do know is
that it's in your life, it's
in your family, and it's already been purchased.
For me heirloom stones are
kind of, they're like the
recycled option. Let's keep using
something that I
already have and not
contribute to mining by buying
a new stone, and not
essentially having to
source something new
that may or may not be
you know in
that gray area of conflict free,
or not conflict free, unless
of course you go
that Canadian route.
Thank you for watching this video today.
I hope you found
it helpful,
I love questions,
feel free to put some below
and I'm happy to
answer.
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We're gonna be
sharing more about
conflict free gemstone options,
as well as metal options,
and also if you have
anything you want me to talk
about, this stuff can be really confusing,
put it
below and it gives me great content and ideas for videos
because I want this to
help you guys.
It's hard to find the right information
on things. So thank you
for watching,
I'll see you next time.
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