Cool !!!!

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

Thanks! Stay dry - the big storm is coming!

@Smithsgold

3 ай бұрын

@@ChrisRalph I'll try to

Thanks

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

No problem. Glad you liked the video.

Good luck and good opportunity ❤

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

Thanks. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

Wow! Well honestly who can afford a natural diamond VS the lab grown ones. Especially when people can barely afford food these days. My wedding ring is tungsten because I have a job that would kill a stone but we could never afford stones anyway

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the video.

Have you done videos on finding natural diamonds, as you have done for gold? I'm heading towards volcanic islands in the Pacific this year, and was wondering on what to look for?

@TheMighty_T

3 ай бұрын

Self reply for others. Yes you have, six months back. I'll watch it now 👍

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

I've done a number of them. First this: kzread.info/dash/bejne/opeCuq6tqrLPZ6w.html and also: kzread.info/dash/bejne/lJygs5uGYs3RpNY.html and also: kzread.info/dash/bejne/k316282adtXQhJs.html My full diamond video playlist can be found at: kzread.info/head/PLzgtYgj2F0yDcQflYTzvk8nCVISjjCbgB

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

Diamonds come from a very, very rare type of volcano, and the ones that make up the pacific islands are not that type.

@johnramirez5032

3 ай бұрын

Diamond coated tools will cone down in price as well. I have diamond coated files to sharpen my kitchen knifes. They are very good and affordable

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

Yes, its true - Diamond coated tools will come down in price too.

“The Truth is out there!” With deception everywhere this is a great heads up Chris. After all, your engagement could end in disaster if she finds out it’s not real. 😂

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

Yes, if a guy is going with a lab stone, he needs to get the buy in from his future bride.

I never liked diamonds, simply for the fact that I could see the wearers of such stones, had been thouroughly brain washed by the diamond cartels. Hopefully people will finally wise up to the fact that diamonds are really not that rare, and there are a variety of other stones much more rare and beautiful. Frankly, I'm surprised Debeers wasn't forced to break up their monopoly by the World Court years ago. I spoke with a couple of diamond sellers in Tucson a couple weeks ago, who said the price is more of a 10/1 ratio, for similar graded stones. 10% in 1 week is a huge decrease. Hopefully we will see an increase in diamond tooling, where the miners can get busy creating worth while things, like Machu Pichu, the Great Pyramids, and all the other great stone masterpieces of years gone by.

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

The lab stones are becoming very inexpensive.

Chris, Can the Cubic Zirconia Diamond withstand the heat that a natural Diamond can ?

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

Cubic Zirconia is not diamond - they are totally different. Cubic Zirconia will not burn in air, diamond burns.

I’ll take a Lightning ⚡️ Ridge black opal over a flawless diamond any day

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

The opals are beautiful. Lightning Ridge opals are pretty rare these days.

@markmcarthy596

3 ай бұрын

@@ChrisRalph - I have a few. Been a rockhound since I could bend over and pick them up. Have a vast collection, all are beautiful, but Lightning Ridge opals, in My opinion, are Natures best artwork

Hi Chris have you heard of the ARK CRYSTAL? It's a type of special crystal that connects to the quantum 🤷‍♂️ using synthetic crystals lattice and shaping it into a certain style a 6 pointed star or something from Metatrons Merkaba shape with a water core...I think. Anyway, have a look at it or if you know it, what do you think about it? I wants to pick your brain on it bcz I was thinking to get it.

@ChrisRalph

2 ай бұрын

You mean the Arkenstone?

Chris - for CVD, As dumb as it sounds, could they use a synthetic diamond to seed another synthetic diamond? Thinking outloud but if its a clone, could get the crystal structure like DNA and use that to catch synthetic vs natural.

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

Yes they can use synthetic diamonds as seeds. However as the man-made diamonds and the natural ones have exactly the same crystal structure, there is no "DNA" thing to tell them apart. They grow in a different orientation than the natural crystals and they are told apart by that orientation.

Diamonds value will be in the rough

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

OK.

Instead of shorting some of these stocks, you could buy some puts. The problem is that you need to pick the right companies and it needs to happen in the right time frame. Maybe look at some much cheaper puts and take a shot with money that you can afford to lose. Think something like the Jan 26 puts on SIG. You can get a $45 put for less than $5/put, which would cost you $500 or so for each put. (options cover 100 shares) Of course, picking which exact company is the loser is hard since companies can change. There used to be a GEMS etf that was about diamonds, but I don't see it any more. The nice thing about puts is the amount that you can lose is limited to the amount that you spent on the put.

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

That is a possibility.

Thanks I was so carious how this was made, I had a choice to buy man made diamonds but I told my wife imperfections made the diamonds more unique plus I really enjoyed the thought that the earth made it not some man in a factory

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

I found a rock metal detecting. It has a silver looking metal all through it like gold ore does in rocks. It's not in little specs. This rock has no crystals of any kind and can never be crushed into sand either. The rock has a shiny glaze like look. There is no flat side. Where the metal is, it has made the rock have like a blueish tint. It's none magnetic and is harder than a number 5. It had calcite on it and I removed it with apple cider vinegar. It's about the size of a golf ball and weighs about 70.50 grams. Every geologist that I've shown it to has no idea what it is. Do you have any idea what it could be? Can send you close up pics if you like.

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

I have no idea - and I don't offer a mineral ID service, mostly because it’s not as easy as you think. Usually, minerals cannot be identified from just a picture. Please watch my videos on how to Identify minerals for yourself. Part 1 can be found here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/f6SfuZdxisi3nMY.html and Part 2 can be found here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/rIOL0ZZyiJyWl6Q.html and Part 3 can be found here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/kZWWl7Cnl7XShto.html - Those videos should answer a lot of your questions.

@redneckadventures4880

3 ай бұрын

@@ChrisRalph I have seen them and they was no help. Even when the geologist professor at a college held it in his hand still didn't know what it was. All he could say was he never seen anything like it. He said it could be a new discovery or a space rock of some kind. Thanks for your time and input.

It's about time that the the De Beers monopoly on the distribution of diamonds is broken up. Hopefully these synthetic diamonds puts them out of business.

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

As I said a couple times in the video, DeBeers is now in the business of making and selling synthetic diamonds - so lab diamonds are not going to put them out of business.

@williamp2359

3 ай бұрын

@@ChrisRalph Yes you did. You even showed their facility. As you also mentioned, the margins will get crushed for these stones. I won't be crying for De Beers when they aren't making the same margins any more.

Seeing as diamonds can be found way more places than they want you to know about, they have never been as rare as DeBeers want you to believe. There is a small diamond mine just a short distance from my home. Never as perfect as a man-made stone, but still, way cheaper than buying from DeBeers.

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

Interesting.

Diamonds are not worthless if you findem yourself.

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

I said they would go down in price. That is not at all the same as worthless.

@dwarvenaled

3 ай бұрын

True@@ChrisRalph

@dwarvenaled

3 ай бұрын

True@@ChrisRalph

Hopefully take the shame away from the guy who can't afford a big one which brides expect and measure by.

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

very true. But if a fiance shames her guy because the diamond isn't as big as she wants - that guy needs to look elsewhere.

@anthonyrstrawbridge

3 ай бұрын

@@ChrisRalph 💛

I'm investing in asteroid diamond futures😂

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

There you go....

💛...it seems to me that it could be a better use of methane than to burn it off as a petroleum distillation process that adds to pollution...

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

First, you are misunderstanding this. It isn't burned or distilled, its decomposed into carbon and hydrogen. the carbon falls onto the diamond seed. The traces of hydrogen that are emitted are not considered to be a pollutant.

The principal reason for the 37% drop in diamond Sales is a drop in marriages.

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

Marriages have not dropped 37% since 2022. I agree fewer US young people are getting married, but its not a 37% drop in one year.

As technology advances there will be more and more or theses things happening to all markets. The ai changes will affect all of us. Its already happening and it appears to be accellerating.

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

Yep. Technology changes our world.

Every popular not (say fresnoite) are at risk----!!!!

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

"Every popular not" ?

I think it’s severe POETIC JUSTICE. How many years has the decent, trusting diamond customer been ripped off for THOUSANDS when the marriage goes down the tubes (*50%) then go to SELL THE DIAMOND, and get only a few hundred dollars. I love how the tables turn. GOOD RIDDANCE! 😂

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

There is super high mark up from wholesale to retail in the jewelry industry.

Proves that real diamonds are way younger than the dinosaur boys club says…😂 You think? Naaaah. .😢

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

Well....

Buy a synthetic. Tell everyone it's natural... 😆

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

Probably fine unless you are selling it.

Diamonds are boring

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

I disagree - I think they are pretty interesting.

IS IT FEASIBLE TO TRY TO PRODUCE ANY "MAN-MADE" GEM STONES, AT HOME?!...

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

I am going to do some experiments on this thought to try to make rubies and emeralds at home - but it is not easy or cheap and you need top understand the chemistry of what you are doing.