Diamond Pricing Tools - ‎How to Assess Diamond Value - Mercury ‎Diamond

Mercury Diamond uses a set of proprietary tools to support its pricing analyses. Some of our tools include:


Mercury Polished Price Calculator

Mercury Polished Price Calculator

The Mercury Polished Price Calculator estimates current market prices of a polished diamond based on all its characteristics, going beyond the traditional 4Cs. It takes into account comments and other irregularities (what we call the 5th C) found on a certificate, based on Mercury’s proprietary table of irregularities.

 

The tool derives a diamond’s price by retrieving most data automatically from a diamond’s certificate. If there is no certificate, the tool allows the user to manually enter any combination of the 5Cs.


Mercury Polished Stone Finder for Defined Budget

Mercury Polished Stone Finder for Defined Budget

This tool allows companies trading polished diamonds to investigate in real time a list of diamonds that can be purchased for a given budget.

 

Mercury Rough Price Calculator

Mercury Rough Price Calculator

The Mercury Rough Price Calculator provides a price estimation of a single stone depending on different yield assumptions.

Mercury Rough Blocks Calculator

Mercury Rough Blocks Calculator

The Mercury Rough Blocks Calculator allows a sorter or valuator to separate rough stones based on estimations of stone characteristics onto virtual pads to derive price estimations. The tool makes assortments below 10 carats. For diamonds above 10 carats, called specials, stone evaluations are made individually by using the Mercury Rough Price Calculator.

Mercury Rough Baseline and Trading Price Calculator

Mercury Rough Baseline and Trading Price Calculator

This tool shows trends in as well as gaps between (i) the price level of rough diamonds that is tied to what end users want to pay for the polished diamonds and (ii) the price level that is driven by dynamics of the rough market and the agendas of rough buyers, traders and manufacturers.

Mercury calls these price levels the Rough Baseline Price and the Rough Trading Price respectively.

The chart shows the gap between Rough Trading prices and the Rough Baseline prices (indexed) of different size categories at a particular point in time.