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The art of making jewellery using lab-grown gems and recycled metal

For some a natural diamond, created over billions of years, is the ultimate luxury, but an award-winning British designer sees greater worth in jewellery crafted using laboratory-grown gems and metal from recycled cans. Anabela Chan said she chose her materials after witnessing what she said were poor working conditions in diamond mines. Her designs rely on lab-grown diamonds, and recycled aluminium from cans and pearls grown using regenerative farming techniques.