Chocolate Diamonds are Le Vian's brand of brown or golden-hued natural diamonds, carefully selected for their rich deep colors. Only natural diamonds that meet Le Vian's exacting standards of clarity, quality, cut, and color will be worthy of the name Chocolate Diamond®.

Due to the rigorous process a brown diamond has to go through to be considered a Le Vian Chocolate Diamond®, the supply is very limited. The high color concentration, and low tolerance for inclusions make these specific brown diamonds incredibly rare.

It's no secret that some of their diamonds and pieces go for over a million dollars, especially rare pieces. Because Le Vian jewelry is considered a luxury brand, it may not be within everyone's budget.

Where do Chocolate Diamonds® come from? Apart from several brown, caramel and champagne-colored diamond mining sites in Brazil, Angola, the Congo and Borneo, most brown diamonds and other similarly-colored stones originate from the Argyle Diamond Mine located in Northwestern Australia.

Just as with any colour of diamond there are ones that have been colour treated and ones that have not been. Just because a diamond is sold as a “chocolate diamond” does not mean that the diamond is not natural. For many years' brown diamonds were considered industry diamonds.

The company also guarantees that their gems and diamonds are natural stones - their certification does not allow them to sell synthetics or imitation stones. Most importantly, when someone buys a Le Vian piece and registers it, the company will repair the jewelry free of charge for the life of the collector.

Short and simple, Chocolate Diamonds® is just a fancy name and branding package for what is commonly known, industry-wide, as brown diamonds. They are by far the most common occurring diamonds in nature. There are literally tons upon tons of brown diamonds found and mined every year.

Diamonds are highly valued due to rarity, beauty, durability, and marketing efforts of diamond companies. Four Cs determine a diamond's value: cut, clarity, carat weight, and color. Diamonds are formed deep in the Earth's mantle and are the hardest substance known to man.

The most expensive and perhaps the most famous jewel in the world is a 45.52 carat blue stone known as the Hope Diamond. Experts think its unusual blue coloring comes from impurities caused by trace amounts of boron atoms.

Just as with any colour of diamond there are ones that have been colour treated and ones that have not been. Just because a diamond is sold as a “chocolate diamond” does not mean that the diamond is not natural. For many years' brown diamonds were considered industry diamonds.

There has long been an oversupply of brown diamonds even before they were so brilliantly marketed to the public by Le Vian's campaigns. Even today brown diamonds are more commonly used as material for making industrial abrasives or cutting products.

A chocolate diamond is a genuine natural diamond that contains a brown-colored tint. The diamond company Le Vian the trademark for the term “Chocolate” when referring to diamonds, in 2000. The difference between chocolate diamond and the other brown-colored diamonds is actually pretty straightforward.