3 Carats

If moissanite are fake diamonds, why do they value as much as low quality diamonds?

What gives moissanite its value; how would you value it, and does it re-sale well?

Public Comments

1. Because the material is expensive to manufacture and to cut into a gem stone. Now a hint about telling it apart from a diamond. If you use a magnifying glass (10 power or less) and look through the face (table, window) of the stone at the edges of the facets moissanite will always show them as double while they will look single in a diamond. Moissanite will also flash more colours in the light than a diamond does.
2. Because moissanite is the best diamond alternative there is. Moissanite is also very rare mineral, and it looks so much like diamond that even jewelers have trouble separating them, it costs as some low quality diamonds because it is the closest you can get to diamond alternative. Moissanite also glitters more than real diamond because moissanite is hexagonal and not isometric having double refraction and producing twice the glitter as the real diamond. Here's more info http://worldofdiamonds.blogspot.com/2008/03/diamond-alternative-moissanite.html