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High pressure high temperature (HPHT) synthetically produced diamonds sit on display at De Beers Technologies research laboratory in Maidenhead, U.K., on Tuesday, June 30, 2015. About 360,000 carats of man-made gems were produced last year, compared with 126 million carats of natural diamonds. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images

High pressure high temperature (HPHT) synthetically produced diamonds sit on display at De Beers Technologies research laboratory in Maidenhead, U.K., on Tuesday, June 30, 2015. About 360,000 carats of man-made gems were produced last year, compared with 126 million carats of natural diamonds. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images