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Only gem-quality diamonds' colour matters, and only 20% of all diamonds mined a gem-quality.

The colour of diamonds are blue, green, black, transparent white, pink, violet, orange, purple and red, yellow and brown with all manner of joined colour-name combinations.

Some diamonds are enhananced to intensify colours, which also devalues the diamonds.

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