The Lab Gem Supplier

When it comes to gemstone shapes, jewelry designers and jewelry buyers have so much to choose from.  Loose gemstones such as diamonds, rubies, sapphires, and cubic zirconia etc. are traditionally cut in a wide variety of ways, and today, jewelers are even incorporating creative and innovative new cut types into their pieces.  While loose gemstones [...]

As beautiful as natural diamonds, lab created cubic zirconia, or cz in jewelers’ shorthand, is recognized as a high quality, inexpensive substitute for Earth’s most precious mineral gem, the diamond. Exacting laboratory standards and tightly controlled conditions allow reliable creation of cubic zirconia in a variety of classes and colors. However, a lack of universal [...]

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 [...]

At the jewelry counter, looks can be deceiving. Lay two rings side by side. The one with the huge flashy rock that appears to be worth a fortune may actually be worth only a fraction of the cost of the ring with the tiny, perfect stone. In gemstones, it’s quality not size that matters most.  Gemologists [...]

Although once looked down upon as a “fake” diamond, today the simulated stones called cubic zirconia are appreciated for their own characteristics and beauty. Still, many people do not have a thorough understanding of these synthetic gems. Here are answers to some common questions. What is Cubic Zirconia? Loose cubic zirconia (also called CZ stones) [...]