Natural diamonds can take over a billion years to form miles beneath the earth’s surface. Today, Jared sources natural diamonds from the deserts in southern Africa to the barren white landscape of the Canadian Arctic in accordance with the Kimberly Process, an international certification program designed to prevent the financing of wars against legitimate governments. In other words, our natural diamonds are conflict-free. Jared lab-created diamonds are grown from diamond seeds in highly controlled laboratories that simulate the earth’s natural growing environment. They have identical properties to natural diamonds but take just four to six weeks to form.