{"id":139105,"date":"2025-10-25T22:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T22:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=139105"},"modified":"2025-10-25T22:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T22:00:14","slug":"losing-its-sparkle-how-chinese-artificial-gems-are-upending-the-diamond-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=139105","title":{"rendered":"Losing its sparkle? How Chinese artificial gems are upending the diamond market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostCreating a new diamond used to be a process spanning millions or even billions of years. Now, it takes about a week.<br \/>\nInside specialised factories, hulking 50-tonne machines simulate the crushing pressure and extreme temperatures inside the Earth\u2019s crust, transforming seed crystals into flawless, glittering stones in just a few days.<br \/>\nZhongjing Diamond, a company based in China\u2019s central province of Hubei, has nearly 300 of the machines humming around the clock, which together mint some 600,000&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3330244\/china-churns-out-artificial-gems-diamond-still-forever?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostCreating a new diamond used to be a process spanning millions or even billions of years. Now, it takes about a week. Inside specialised&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139105"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}