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What You Must Know About EGL Certified Diamonds Diamonds grading is better left to bodies with the highest standards and the European Gemological Laboratory has provided that for about thirty years. Diamonds, like any other precious property that occurs with rarity and possesses high value, usually requires a standard by which is must be valued. This is a means of guarding against the introduction of low quality and corruption of value. Diamonds have also come under similar scrutiny and the response has been the establishment of grading bodies to determine the quality of each stone submitted to it following which it issues a certificate evidencing its findings. Thus, each diamond certificate contains a statement of quality as per the grading done by the body. One of the most popular bodies is the European Gemological Laboratory (EGL), based in Belgium and founded thirty years ago. The key objectives of the EGL include the protection of the integrity of the jewelry trade as well as increasing public interest through applied science, innovation, education as well as exceptional service. As an organization that has been tasked with ensuring standards are set and met in the grading of precious stones like diamonds, the EGL has recorded a number of achievements by introducing novel approaches in the grading of diamonds. The body has put in place the means and practice of certifying diamonds with measurements lower than a single carat. The EGL also introduced a novel designation known as the SI3 meant specifically for diamond clarity. All the foregoing are in addition to the institution of several advanced research activities carried out in

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Page 1: What you must know about egl certified diamonds

What You Must Know About EGL Certified Diamonds

Diamonds grading is better left to bodies with the highest standards and the European Gemological Laboratory has provided that for about thirty years.

Diamonds, like any other precious property that occurs with rarity and possesses high value, usually requires a standard by which is must be valued. This is a means of guarding against the introduction of low quality and corruption of value. Diamonds have also come under similar scrutiny and the response has been the establishment of grading bodies to determine the quality of each stone submitted to it following which it issues a certificate evidencing its findings. Thus, each diamond certificate contains a statement of quality as per the grading done by the body. One of the most popular bodies is the European Gemological Laboratory (EGL), based in Belgium and founded thirty years ago. The key objectives of the EGL include the protection of the integrity of the jewelry trade as well as increasing public interest through applied science, innovation, education as well as exceptional service.

As an organization that has been tasked with ensuring standards are set and met in the grading of precious stones like diamonds, the EGL has recorded a number of achievements by introducing novel approaches in the grading of diamonds. The body has put in place the means and practice of certifying diamonds with measurements lower than a single carat. The EGL also introduced a novel designation known as the SI3 meant specifically for diamond clarity. All the foregoing are in addition to the institution of several advanced research activities carried out in conjunction with renowned geologists, physicists as well as mineralogists.

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EGL Certified Diamonds are typically graded in any of the organization’s locations in New York, Los Angeles, Belgium, South Africa, France, Israel, Great Britain, South Korea as well as Canada. The laboratories in New York and Los Angeles happen to have very high reputation.

EGL certified diamonds go through a thorough and very rigorous grading process before being certified. The inspection process is undertaken with a minimum of eight expert genealogists with detailed scrutiny being paid to all facets and other attributes of the stone. Inability to arrive at a unanimous judgment on the diamond demands further analysis by a more senior gemologist before assigning a grade of the diamond.

EGL certified diamonds are typically graded on the following; carat, color, clarity, polish and symmetry as well as fluorescence. The EGL, like other top grading bodies,

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grade all diamonds submitted to them regardless of whether they are beautiful or not.

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