Russian mining giant Alrosa has introduced the Alrosa Diamond Inspector – a device for identifying natural and synthetic polished diamonds. According to a press release, Alrosa expects that the device’s “relatively low price and high accuracy” will allow the detector to be in demand both in Russia and abroad.
The device, according to the miner, can identify “natural polished diamonds, polished diamonds manufactured from synthetic and treated diamonds [and] non-diamond imitations (simulants)”, and can analyse both individual diamonds and diamonds in jewelry.
The General Director of Diamond Scientific and Technological Center LLC Vladimir Sklyaruk said: “[…] The price of our detector is $9,900, while foreign detectors of a similar class can cost up to $18-20 thousand […] according to our estimates the number of potential consumers of such devices worldwide can exceed 350,000”.
