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Yellow diamonds are the most commonly known color among natural color diamonds, so we decided that making a dedicated video about buying canary yellow diamonds.
We will cover everything including what are yellow diamonds and canary diamonds? What is the meaning of their different intensities? And all about yellow diamond prices and getting the most for your money. And at the end of the video, I’ll share with you a mounting tip that will save you even more money...
1. What Are Yellow Diamonds?
The diamond color scale for white diamonds goes from D-Z. As you get closer to Z, the diamond is less colorless and starts to be a bit yellowish in tone, a pale yellow. This degrades the diamond and the price decreases as you get closer to Z. However at a certain point if you continue on the color scale, the color becomes a beautiful yellow shade, and this is where the price increases again and the diamond is considered a yellow diamond.
They belong to the family of fancy color diamonds - regular diamonds that due to impurities in them, change their color during the formation process, making them everything but regular. Yellow diamonds get their color due to traces of Nitrogen contained within the diamond’s crystal structure.
2. Are Yellow Diamonds Rare?
Natural colored diamonds are extremely rare, and while yellow diamonds are the most common of the fancy colored diamonds they are approximately 1 out of 16,500 carats mined. So yes, yellow diamonds are rare.
3. The Different Colors of Yellow Diamonds
Colored diamonds often don’t come in a pure form but rather a combination of colors. The most common color combinations found in yellow diamonds are brown-yellow, green-yellow, and orange-yellow. The last color mentioned is the dominant one.
For example, a green-yellow diamond is a yellow diamond with a secondary tone of green, while a yellow-green diamond is a green diamond with a secondary tone of yellow. These two diamonds have a vast difference in appearance, rarity, and pricing.
4. Yellow Diamond Color Scale
When grading colored diamonds, besides determining the color or color combination of the diamond, the color is also graded for intensity.
There are yellow diamonds with a very strong color, and also a faint color and that is why an intensity scale was invented. The colored diamonds intensity scale goes from faint all the way to fancy intense, deep, and fancy vivid. Yellow diamond start at fancy light yellow. Vivid yellows are extremely rare and highly sought after, and are priced accordingly.
5. The 4 C’s
We’ve gone over the 4 C’s of diamonds in another video, but let’s talk about what’s important when shopping for yellow diamonds and the effect it has on pricing.
5.1 Yellow Diamond Color
The stronger the yellow color, the higher the price. Fancy light yellow diamonds are relatively cheap yellow diamonds and are priced around $2500-$3,000 for a 1-carat diamond, while fancy vivid yellow diamonds are extremely rare and are priced around $10,000 to $15,000 per 1 carat.
If there is a secondary color that is common like brown - the price will go down. However, if it’s one of the more expensive diamond colors like orange, the price will go up.
5.2 Carat Weight
Diamonds are priced per carat and the price goes up exponentially along with the weight. The price per carat of a 1-carat yellow diamond will be much higher than the price per carat of a .5 carat diamond, and remember, carat weight does not mean size.
5.3 Clarity
As for clarity of yellow diamonds, they are known to be found in nature with relatively high clarity grading, meaning that finding yellow diamonds with VS clarity and higher is a relatively easy task. SI1 and even most SI2 diamonds are considered to be eye clean, so when shopping for yellow diamonds, SI1 diamonds offer great value for the money.
5.4 Cut
When speaking about cut, remember that it does not mean the shape of the diamond but rather the quality or the make of the diamond in considering the shape that it was cut into. Colored diamonds are usually cut to maximize the color of the stone and not the brilliance so there are a lot of poorly cut yellow diamonds out there. Stay away from bad cuts.
We have limited writing space here so note that in the full article, we dive deeper into certification and fluorescence which may cause even a 30% drop in pricing.
And lastly, at the end of the video, we also share a valuable mounting tips specifically for yellow diamonds - worth watching
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