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Clarity enhanced diamonds are natural diamonds which undergo a treatment process to artificially improve clarity in the diamond.
The treatment process typically falls into two main processes. Firstly laser drilling and secondly fracture filling. Both treatments aim to reduce the appearance of natural clarity characteristics within a diamond.
Laser treatments involve drilling a fine laser hole through a diamond. This process burns away an internal inclusion. The laser hole allows access to bleach deep inclusions. As a result, the diamond benefits from enhanced clarity and an improved appearance. The image below, courtesy of the Gemological Institute of America shows the drill-hole under high magnification.
Laser holes can be very difficult to see, even with a trained eye. Under 10x magnification, we look for small holes on the surface of a diamond. From these holes, fine hair-like lines extend into the diamond as shown here.
Fracture filling improves the appearance of a diamond’s clarity. In this treatment process, a glass-like resin is injected into the diamond. The resin fills visible feathers. Just like laser drilling, this treatment can be very hard to identify, even to the trained eye. Some diamonds treated this way exhibit a flash of purple or green owing to the differing optical properties of the resin.
Fracture filled diamond (before – left) and after treatment (right) photo courtesy of Gems and Gemology.
Buyers should avoid buying a clarity enhanced diamond for very good reasons. Firstly, few sellers disclose the exact treatment applied to any given diamond. Instead, a vague note appears to describe that the diamond is clarity enhanced.
Many buyers see their cheap price as advantageous, but diamond treatments massively de-value diamonds. But, most diamonds hold a higher value untreated with the original inclusions present.
One of the dangers associated with fracture-filled diamonds relates to temperature fluctuations. Proximity to heat during jewellery-making can cause a fracture-filled diamond to shatter. Some cleaners may remove or loosen the glass filling. As a result, the inclusion re-appears as if by magic!
For some buyers, this has often lead to the belief that their original diamond was swapped by the jeweller! This can happen years later. For example, when re-making a ring or when the ring undergoes routine cleaning.
Who could blame them for their surprise when a visible inclusion appears within their diamond?
Owing to the dangers of working with a fracture-filled diamond, most jewellers will not set a diamond treated in this way. For this reason, we routinely check any diamonds sent to us for setting into a finished ring mount.
Instead of buying a clarity enhanced diamond, we recommend buying a natural untreated diamond.
Safer, lower-cost alternatives include lab-grown diamonds or Moissanite. Both pose a lower risk than a clarity enhanced diamond. If you specifically want a natural diamond, consider lowering your sights in terms of the carat weight, colour, clarity or all three.
Please contact us for a personal quote for a natural or lab-grown diamond. Or, contact us for pricing on the option of adding a Moissanite to one of our jewellery designs.
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He debated Mikhail Gorbachev and set five world records in powerboat racing. He’s written several books and raised millions of dollars for charities, including the U.S. Olympic Team, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, and the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation. He’s Michael Reagan, and he continues to uphold his father’s commitment to public service.
Learn more about Michael Reagan—a political consultant, political commentator, best-selling author, and public speaker—and his ongoing contributions to Ronald Reagan’s presidential legacy.
He hosted a nationally syndicated daily talk-radio show that aired for 17 years. In all, he hosted talk-radio shows for 26 years. (By the way, President Reagan launched his own career as a radio commentator.)
Michael also had a small part on his mother Jane Wyman’s 1980s TV show Falcon Crest and hosted the Canadian game show Lingo for a short time.
He has written several top-selling books, including On the Outside Looking In, Twice Adopted, and Lessons My Father Taught Me. He also writes a syndicated newspaper column.
Lessons My Father Taught Me remains one of Michael Reagan’s most revered works. In his review of the book, Newt Gingrich said, “Michael Reagan knew Ronald Reagan better than anyone alive today—and his Lessons My Father Taught Me reveals him as more than just a great leader, but as a good father with a great soul, a role model for all of us. No one has done more to apply Reagan’s principles than Michael—and this book is just one more example of that.”
He’s been involved in an array of charitable and public-service causes, with the Reagan Legacy Foundation being the prime example. Among the others are the Michael Reagan Center for Advocacy and Research, John Douglas French Alzheimer’s Foundation, Young America’s Foundation, Santa Barbara Navy League/USS Ronald Reagan crew enhancement program, and My Stuff Bags Foundation.
“As admirable as someone’s intentions may be, Michael stresses [that] the most crucial part about running a nonprofit organization is to find the right cause, select the right people, and never treat it as a means to make a living,” the online magazine GREY noted.
Michael Reagan often speaks about the power of taking a stand and doing so as a community. In a 2016 speech at Liberty University, he explained how his father cared more about what was accomplished during his presidency than who took the credit.
“Don’t worry who gets the credit,” Michael Reagan said to his audience. “Work toward the big picture. Be who you are. Take a stand and don’t be afraid of taking a stand. Know what you believe and why you believe it. [Ronald Reagan] taught me that as a child and he never wavered from his beliefs.”
He was born March 18, 1945, in Los Angeles. Michael still lives in California with his wife, Colleen. They have two children: son Cameron, who works in sales, and daughter Ashley, an elementary school teacher.
Before becoming President, Michael’s father, Ronald Reagan, was a Hollywood actor. So was his mother, the late Jane Wyman. Michael’s parents adopted him in 1945 when he was just three days old.
Looking back on his childhood in a 2008 interview, Michael said, “My parents, Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman never referred to me as adopted. I was always their son.”
In that same interview, he also said that he would like to write another book and title it, “Please, stop calling me adopted!”
President Reagan was a 1932 graduate of Eureka College in Illinois. Michael is a former trustee of the college. In 2019, he became an honorary alumnus and spoke at a ceremony commemorating the 15th anniversary of his father’s death.
“My father always stayed true to himself,” Michael said at Eureka College. “He always had a positive attitude. He never looked down on people; he lifted people up. Even people who didn’t support him politically liked him, and people have a tendency to vote for people they like.”
During his presidency, Ronald Reagan signed the Gold Bullion Act of 1985, an act that required the U.S. Mint to start producing a family of magnificent 22-karat gold bullion coins—Gold American Eagle coins. Buy Gold American Eagle coins online and call U.S. Money Reserve for exclusive access to Proof Gold American Eagle coins hand-signed by Michael Reagan.
“The legacy of my father is that he led the world to a better place than when he came into the White House,” Michael told Authority Magazine in a 2019 interview.
Michael remains committed to making the world a better place, too. He’s chairman and president of the Reagan Legacy Foundation, which advances causes that President Reagan embraced and highlights accomplishments of the Reagan presidency.
“There’s a lot of people that try to redefine my father in their own image and likeness,” Michael told ABC News in 2011. “And I think that, in fact, they do a disservice.”
“You have these people running for president or [who] want to be president of the United States, trying to literally play their own role of a lifetime and make people believe they are the next Ronald Reagan,” Michael added. “And you know something? There was only one Ronald Reagan, thank God. And he was my father.”
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The Treasury Secretary says we can’t shut down the U.S. economy again. But it’s happening. In Arizona. In Texas. In Washington, Arkansas, Idaho, Delaware, Michigan, Louisiana, Nevada, North Carolina, Oregon. More shutdowns will bring more uncertainty and more volatility. We just witnessed an 1800-point drop in the Dow in just one day. Can your 401k or IRA handle potentially more frequent and larger stock market drops?
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