Video: One of the largest diamonds sold at auction
2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00
Girl's best friends? Of course, diamonds! Yesterday, October 9, one of these good friends, which no woman would refuse, was sold at an auction in Antwerp for $ 12.36 million.
The largest golf ball-sized 603-carat (120-gram) diamond found in the past 13 years was discovered a month and a half ago, on August 22, in the South African Kingdom of Lesotho, in a mine owned by Gem Diamond Mining and the Lesotho government. A pebble with a rather loud and pretentious name "Promise of Lesotho" is considered the tenth largest diamond in the world. The last time a diamond of this size was found in 1993 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, it weighed 777 carats and was no less snobbishly named "Millennium Star". It is assumed that after cutting "Hope Lesotho", this pretty gem will cost about 20 million. Recall that the world's largest diamond, Cullinan, weighs 3106 carats. The second largest - Excelsior - weighs 995 carats.
Jewelers believe that the stone will be cut in such a way that it will take on the shape of a heart. Gem Diamond Mining sellers said they were happy with the price they received for Lesotho Hope. At the same time, representatives of the Graff Diamonds company, who bought the diamond, also believe that they have won. By the way, such famous ladies as Paris Hilton and Oprah Winfrey love to wear Graff jewelry.
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