Vivid yellow diamonds are always in demand

Yellow diamonds can also cost lot of money just like other fancy colored diamonds. Of course, this mostly refers to vivid yellow colored diamonds which are very rare and therefore very expensive.

So how much do vivid yellow diamonds cost? The last big vivid yellow diamond was sold couple of days ago for staggering $6.6M at Christie's Sale of Magnificent Jewels. This is just another proof that there is always a high demand for fancy colored diamonds.

This magnificent pear-shaped yellow diamond weigh 32,77 carats, VS2, and achieved a price of $201,000 per carat. It was bought by an anonymous buyer.

The yellow diamonds got their color due to impurities in form of nitrogen. If we scale colored diamonds by the rarity then yellow diamonds are followed by brown, colorless, then by blue, green, black, pink, orange, purple, and red diamonds are the rarest.

The color of vivid yellow diamonds is incredible, it's literally blazing with yellow hues. Finding such diamond in nature is extremely difficult because this is an extremely rare geological phenomenon.

Yellow diamonds are becoming increasingly popular. Yellow diamonds are becoming hot trend among celebrities, for instance Paris Hilton and Heidi Klum were among celebs spotted wearing gorgeous looking yellow diamonds.

The largest yellow diamond ever found was The Kimberly Octahedron that was discovered in the Dutoitspan Mine in South Africa in 1964. It is the 14th largest gem-quality rough diamond ever discovered by weighing 616 carats.