Is your company in abrasives or machining? I'm curious because I assume that lab-grown is actually preferred over mined because the crystalline structure may be more homogenous.

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owenversteeg 5 days ago | parent [-]

I can't go into too much detail, but there are actually a few things: our main use is machining and one of our other uses is for the extreme thermal conductivity. Diamond is an incredible material period.

I am not an expert so take this with a grain of salt, but for what I do I have seen no difference between flawless natural diamond and flawless lab grown diamond, the difference is that the flawless natural diamonds are almost always far more expensive.

	▲	evolve2k 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		If I was shopping for a near flawless diamond engagement ring and someone was offering me the lab-made version. I think I’d be quite swayed towards the lab ones knowing that there were engineers who used them for industrial use and found them exactly the same. Also being much cheaper, I’d likely spend money towards getting a better grade lab-grown diamond than I could afford with a mined diamond. If I was the lab-grown industry I’d also be actively attempting to shift the narrative around the term real, and say ones mined one is lab made, both are real. But that’s its own fight I’m sure.