April's birthstone: The diamond. What color is the rarest of them all?

Question

Natural color diamonds are extremely rare that for every one natural color there are 10,000 colorless ones that made the trip to the earths surface...

*Yellow diamonds - are caused by the presence of nitrogen and shade range from very light to vivid canary yellow.

*Blue diamods- the presence of boron will give a blue shade to diamond ranging from deep to blue sky.

*Pink diamonds- are created when tremendous pressure abnormally compresses the diamond structure during its formation in the earth..

Other natural colors include brown,purple,green and orange, but what is the rarest?-so rare in nature that most jewelers and diamond dealers have never seen a natural one before???

Answer 1

The rarest and most sought after colour in a diamond is the most colourless one often called 'blue white' or 'Gem' stone.

Answer 2

Hey oxo_07,

-funny you should ask this question - ha, ha.  I'm no diamond expert, but this answer sounded accurate to me:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?...

Answer 3

The rarest Diamond color is purplish-red, I only know of 4 stones - two of 5 carats, a 2.26 carat stone and 0.95 carat stone. One of the 5 carat stones is on display in the Smithsonian museum. The 2.26 carat stone was sold for $2.6 million in Nov 2007.

Answer 4

Pink Diamonds

http://www.costellos.com.au/diamonds/typ...

http://worldofdiamonds.blogspot.com/2007...

Answer 5

Red is the rarest