Traded for centuries, natural fancy colored diamonds have shown consistent appreciation since tracking began in the 1970’s, with some colored diamonds appreciating 50% to 100% and seemingly more on some days. As supply becomes increasingly limited, industry experts foresee that prices will dramatically rise over the next decade. Never in the history of recorded time have natural fancy colored diamonds been poised to appreciate more.
Poised to Appreciate
Pink Diamonds paved the pathway for natural fancy colored diamonds as investments. Today however, Champagne diamonds are piquing the interest of Rare Investment investors. Not only are Champagne diamonds becoming more and more popular among celebrities such as Katy Perry, Oprah, Jennifer Lopez and consumers worldwide but they are currently priced 1/3 below colorless diamonds.
Prices have nowhere else to go but up! The time to invest is now.
Champagne diamonds are poised to appreciate along the same gravity defying trajectory as Pink Diamonds - which were once also priced below white diamonds. However, today, certain pink diamonds are considered the most concentrated form of wealth on the plant.
The Opportunity that Lies Ahead
- Natural fancy colored diamonds are so rare that for every 10,000 carats of diamonds mined, one colored carat is found.
- The Argyle Mine, which is the largest mine and producer of natural colored diamonds, puts out one-fifth of the world’s volume of diamonds is scheduled to shut in 2018 as is described in the Argyle Mine Closure Plan. The mine produces 90% of the world’s Pink diamonds and 80% of the world’s Champagne, Cinnamon and Cognac diamonds.
- There have been no recent major discoveries of natural fancy colored diamonds. The two most recently discovered mines are in Russia and Canada and they produce only colorless diamonds.
- It takes ten years to develop a mine from discovery to production. A mine equivalent to $500 million of diamond production must open every year, for the next ten years to meet the increasing demand from consumers.
- DeBeers closed 3 diamond mines in Africa in 2006.
- The diminishing supply of natural fancy colored diamonds is a structural market condition that cannot be altered in the future. Prices have nowhere else to go but up.