They are the rarest of the colored gemstones and a much softer gem making them more expensive and highly desirable.
Lab grown emerald.
Naturally occurring emeralds are especially pricey as they are hard to come by.
We have some of the finest loose emerald stones for sale as you look at our selection of loose emeralds for sale created in our labs we are confident that you will find beautiful gemstones at a very affordable price.
The process is slow and energy intensive and the yield of facetable material is low.
The methods used to create them in labs require expensive equipment.
One day we were selling lab created emeralds for hundreds of dollars per carat.
Priced at 77 ct and the price shown at right is per gem.
Lab created emeralds were popular for a year or two then the excitement faded away.
A lab created emerald is a real emerald but not a natural emerald synthetic emeralds are some of the most expensive synthetic gems.
The most popular color.
The emeralds prepared in lab have a single quality and that is good the lab created emerald stones come only in high quality.
The next day the price was in the 40 per carat range the former ceo recalls.
7 mm square princess cut.
The average weight is 1 32 ct.
But most of the people can afford to wear jewelry with synthetic emeralds in it as you can easily find a top quality lab created emerald at gemsngems for below 100.
Soon after people were buying synthetic emerald jewelry for 79 to 99.
This is one of the biggest misconceptions people have about emeralds prepared in lab.
The most common lab grown emerald material is metal.
In fact the controlled environment of laboratory helps the emerald to feature more even and rich color.