We Care About the Environment As Much As We Care About Our Customers...
We have listened and we have heard you. Villarreal Jewelers are working on bringing in a collection of environmentally friendly, lab grown diamonds for our eco-concious customers in Austin, TX.
Keep checking back to see how we’re helping to usher in an age of carefully curated diamonds that shine as brightly as their natural counterparts.
Frequently Asked Questions About Lab Diamonds
Lab-grown diamonds are not unique, they are mass produced in factories, primarily in Asia in potentially unlimited quantities. Natural mined diamonds on the other hand are completely unique, each one is different, like a snowflake or fingerprint. Just as no one will ever have your fingerprints, no two natural mined diamonds are alike. Diamond recovery peaked in 2005 and supplies have been declining every year since there haven’t been any new significant diamond discoveries in the past 30 years.
Natural diamonds obtain their value from their uniqueness and rarity as billion-year-old precious gems older than life itself. Lab-grown diamonds are currently sold at a slightly reduced price compared to natural diamonds, but the cost continues to decline due to mass production. Therefore, they have little to no resale value.
No. In fact, recent third-party research reveals that natural diamonds produce 3X less carbon emissions per carat than lab-grown diamonds, equal only to the carbon emissions required to produce 3 iPhones. The research also confirms that leading diamond producers recycle on average 83% of water used in diamond recovery. Conversely, manufacturing lab-grown diamonds requires an immense amount of energy to replicate a billion-year-old natural process in just a few weeks, as well as significant water consumption to cool the reactors. Whereas natural diamond producers have independent data to back up their claims, lab-grown diamond manufacturers do not, and were recently warned by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) about unsubstantiated eco-claims.
