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What Are the Most Valuable Diamond Colors?While naturally colored diamonds
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The question of value in diamond color, is one of purely aesthetic taste, and availability. Most consumers are familiar with the "white" or more properly named "colorless" diamond. When these are well cut, and have minimal or no inclusions, the flash and fire produced by the light that passes through them, can be breathtaking. There are some very large diamonds in the world, notably the central diamond in the crown of the English monarchy, which is a true treasure. But even a large colorless diamond of good quality, may not be as valuable as a smaller, naturally colored diamond. Diamonds do come in a few uncommon colors such as red, pink, blue, and yellow. The most common colors to be seen in diamonds are likely the blue and yellow. This color sometimes exists in a stone that you may see as clear. But if you examine it through the side, where there are fewer facets, you may get a hint of what is referred to as the "true" color. Because they are so rare, naturally colored diamonds, even those with some inclusions, are highly prized by gem connoisseurs and people with a taste for color and the unusual in gems. You can, however, purchase "fancies", or artificially enhanced diamonds whose structure has been changed by the application of heat or other methods. While many gemologists look down on treating diamonds that didn't quite make the grade as a clear or white stone, others will defend their value, on the grounds that to some degree, all diamonds are "treated" in the way they are cut, polished and mounted.
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