How Are Diamonds Being Graded In 2020 - Aura Jewels

With customers becoming so interested in understanding the details of every product before making a purchase, a diamond’s 4Cs are not providing them with sufficient information. In fact, the issue of inconsistency in diamond grading has long been a curse in the diamond industry. One single diamond presented at different gem labs can bring different 4C gradings; can you believe that!? So, what’s the problem?

The international 4C grading system for diamonds was first introduced in the 1950s; and ever since, since the past 70 years, this has been the basic grading system for diamonds used by all – wholesalers, retailers, and consumers alike. The 4Cs – Cut, Colour, Clarity, and Carat – provide the value and rarity of a diamond. However, each element of the four differs to play a role when combined with one another. Thus, there is no specific definition of the four elements to determine a diamond’s perfect value. Hence, the entire grading system becomes complicated.

Diamond grading – Then & Now

You would be surprised to know that more than 140 million carats of rough diamonds are mined every year! And, what is more surprising is that only half of these are worth being polished and sold as diamonds! Earlier, the grading of diamonds was traditionally carried out manually by experienced gemologists to inspect the inventory using visual aids; and then, with the help of standard 4C grading charts, they would decide the diamond’s grades in each category, providing a solid and accurate analysis for the diamond’s grading. However, things have changed now, making it difficult to standardize and accurately determine the quality of every single diamond, with millions of diamonds being mined each year. After all, people are not machines. Thus, to grade all these huge number of diamonds, certain machineries are used today.

What role does Artificial Intelligence play?

The advent of Artificial Intelligence is likely to change the reality of the diamond industry, as machines are now capable to inspect a diamond based on various parameters, and also provide only more accurate, time efficient, and cost efficient results, as compared to its human counterpart. With such accuracy and efficiency, there has seen to be a huge breakthrough in grading using Artificial Intelligence, and this is only believed to continually develop. Such Artificial Intelligence based and automated diamond grading has been seen since 2016 when the world’s first technology of diamond grading was launched. These technologies are based on machine learning. The more diamonds that are scanned and graded by machineries, the more knowledge they accumulate, thus making the algorithm-based methodology even more sophisticated. In turn, the grading outputs become more and more accurate and consistent, enabling standardized and ever-improving grading results.

However, this does not mean that Artificial Intelligence grading technologies will completely replace gemologists, but in fact both of them will work together to bring about a provable consistent and objective approach to diamond grading. So, make sure to find and purchase only genuine 4C standardized diamonds the next time you wish to make such a purchase. And, if you aren’t too sure, you can always make a purchase from Aura Jewels, the best diamond jewellery shop in Bangalore, where you are guaranteed to get only the best quality genuine A-grade diamonds and diamond jewellery.