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(IDEX Online) - When it comes to a wedding proposal, it seems the engagement ring is actually more important than a "yes".

Just over half (51 per cent) of the 2,000 engaged Americans surveyed for De Beers said the ring was number one concern.

Bizarrely, only 17 per cent said their top priority was that their partner should accept the proposal.

Pictures of the proposal - during and afterward - were the most important part for 38 per cent, and for 36 per cent it was who else was there to see it.

Diamonds remain the most common gemstone for engagement rings, and princess is the most popular cut (44 per cent).

Despite the importance of the ring itself, only 38 per cent knew their partner's ring size ahead of time....

(IDEX Online) - The GIA lab in Johannesburg has identified three cases of synthetic moissanite being submitted for grading with a fraudulent inscription.

It's a new development by unscrupulous dealers trying to pass off simulants as genuine diamonds.

The lab says most fakes are easily spotted, but in the first of three cases a colorless 1.02-ct round brilliant gem bore a GIA number corresponding to an E-color natural diamond of the same weight that had been graded in 2019. The inscription was not in a font used by the GIA.

The fraud was confirmed by subsequent spectroscopic and gemological analysis, according to the GIA's Quarterly Journal, Gems & Gemology.

After the GIS gave details of the first synthetic moissanite it found two further stones, also with fraudulent inscriptions. 

Pic shows the stone and its fraudulent inscription (partly redacted)...