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OCR: FASHION cut diamond, this try. Lasers, for instance, are now being used to cut step involves no stones. An accomplished cleaver can cut, say, 100 fewer than nine stages stones a day; the output using lasers is easily 10 (four for a round cut) of times that. Also, with lasers, there are fewer mis- meticulous, patient crafts- takes resulting from human error. "In an extreme manship. case," says Andy Yanay, a cleaving expert based After the diamond is cut, in Antwerp, "with a one- carat stone, one wrong it is boiled for cleansing cleave can make a $5,000 difference." and checked again for flaws. The quality of a Nearly 79 carats of Finally, the diamonds are diamond is usually diamonds add separated into distinguishing judged in terms of sparkle to this categories such as size, shape what are known cho ker and colour. At this point, they as the 4Cs: col- are ready to be shipped to jewellers, who will trans- our, clarity, cut form the loose stones into the diamond jewellery and carat weight. that you may be wearing right now. · Colour-Dia- Although the monds come in process of refin- most colours, in- ing still relies cluding pink, blue, heavily on man- ual skill and per- Crafted from a rux severance, tech- of materials, this nology is making organic-looking brooch gliste ns inroads on the with 17 brilliant-cut diamond indus- diamonds