The Museum of Natural History in New York has just finished an exhibit of  25 diamonds in the museum's Morgan Memorial Hall of Gems.


The diamonds in the exhibit include some fabulous colorful diamonds including some from the Argyle mine in Australia, a wonderful 5.4 carat diamond necklace with 20 sapphires, some laboratory grown diamonds, created using chemical vapor deposition and some lab grown diamonds using the high-pressure and high temperature technique in large presses.

 

My favorites are these five vibrantly colored diamonds in shades ranging from blue green, orange-yellow, purple-pink, blue and orange.  They are from the Olympia diamond collection which is on loan from Scarselli Diamonds.

 

colored diamonds

 

If you weren't in New York to see the exhibit, never fear, the Natural Museum has a special page on the site showing the diamonds which were in the exhibition.