The Lab Gem Supplier

Not all cubic zirconia or lab created gems are the equal. Huge variations in quality are possible depending on how the cz gems are produced. Low-quality production methods can produce lab gems quickly and cheaply, often for under a dollar per carat;  but their quality, appearance and durability suffer greatly. Unlike their inferior counterparts, high-quality cubic zirconia [...]

Since the ability to create look alike gems in the laboratory, all that glitters in the jewelry case is not diamonds. It’s usually cubic zirconia, the popular manmade diamond and crystal gem look alike that can be created so flawlessly that your eye can’t distinguish it from Mother Nature’s handiwork. But even cubic zirconia has [...]

Today we finish our story about the  journey to create a viable, inexpensive diamond substitute. Read our December 9 post for the beginning of our story about cubic zirconia, the most popular and commercially successful diamond substitute in the world. In the 1960s French scientists developed a cold crucible technique that resulted in the growth of [...]

The world’s most popular diamond stand in, cubic zirconia is the crystalline form of zirconium dioxide. Colorless, optically flawless and nearly as hard as diamonds, cubic zirconia gems are created under exacting conditions in the laboratory and grown into perfect cube-shaped columnar crystals. Loose cz diamonds are carefully cut in the same manner as natural diamonds and [...]

Of all the materials used to simulate natural diamonds, cubic zirconia is the most successful with a visual appearance usually indistinguishable from nature’s most valuable gem creation. While created in the lab, cubic zirconia does exist in minute, commercially irrelevant amounts in nature. A cubic crystalline form of zirconium dioxide with the same isometric crystallography [...]

All About the History of Cubic ZirconiaCubic zirconia, commonly referred to as CZ, is a mineral that is man-made. This artificial substance is the cubic crystalline form of a compound called zirconium dioxide. CZ is widely used as a diamond stimulant because of its visually flawless and colorless state. This is why cubic zirconia is [...]