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Evaluating diamonds: Can anything top the four Cs?

By Scheherazade Daneshkhu in Paris

Published: June 12 2010 00:48 | Last updated: June 12 2010 00:48

They are known as the four Cs and have been together for many years. The four Cs are not a pop group but a set of characteristics for evaluating the worth of a diamond: carat, colour, clarity and cut.

For more than 70 years, these fundamental benchmarks, developed by the California-based Gemological Institute of America (GIA), have been used to assess a diamond’s value.

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