Yellow Diamonds…. Also known as Canary Diamonds

So what are they? And why do we love and covet them so much?

Yellow diamonds are the most common form of coloured diamonds. Only one carat out of every 10,000 carats mined is a natural fancy colour diamond. The yellow diamond has gained tremendously in popularity because of its beautiful shine and its relatively affordable prices.

Yellow diamonds come in all shapes (round, oval, cushion cut, asscher cut, princess cut etc.) and sizes and in various colour intensities. They originate from all over the world, however the most intense yellow diamonds mostly come from the mines of South Africa. The intensities go from light yellow to fancy light yellow diamond and to the fancy yellow diamonds and all the way to the beautiful, rare and expensive intense yellow diamond and vivid yellow diamond.

Yellow diamonds often come in unique colour combinations. The best saying to some up coloured diamonds is that none are identical and each is unique in colour.

The origin of the name Canary Diamond or Canary Yellow refers to pure yellow diamonds with a strong shade, meaning pure intense yellow diamonds.

The price of a yellow diamond still depends on clarity and this is quite important as most yellow diamonds are found with a high clarity grading. And as mentioned before yellow diamonds are quite rare. A 1 carat radiant fancy yellow diamond with vs2 clarity would cost approximately £8,000. A piece of buying guidance for when your purchasing a yellow diamond is the more intense the colour the higher the price will be.    

The Canary diamond is growing in popularity and is now more common to be found on and engagement ring.  The most famous yellow diamond engagement ring is one owned by Paris Hilton given to her by Paris Lastis. And even Hilary Clinton has been spotted wearing a 4.23 carat yellow diamond ring on various occasions.

If your keeping your eye out for the most perfect yellow diamond then keep a look out for a brownish yellow diamond weighing 407.49 carats as its carat weight has made it the third largest diamond ever found. 

Written by Benjamin Dyson