The Largest Pink Diamond Ever Found In Australia

The huge rough stone, found by the resources giant Rio Tinto at its Argyle mine in the Kimberley region, has been named the Argyle Pink Jubilee and is worth at least £7 million. The Argyle Pink Jubilee will be polished and cut in Perth over the next ten days and then sold later this year after being shown around the world.

It is a light pink diamond, similar in colour to the 24-carat diamond The Williamson Pink, which Queen Elizabeth II had set into a Cartier brooch for her coronation after receiving it as a wedding gift. The Williamson was discovered in Tanzania in 1947 and is ranked among the finest pink diamonds in existence.

Top 10 World’s Rarest & Most Valuable Gems
A Rio Tinto spokesman said 90 per cent of the pink diamonds in the world come from the Argyle mine but the new gem was "unprecedented".

"It has taken 26 years of Argyle production to unearth this stone and we may never see one like this again," said the spokesperson.

In 2010, a rare 24.78-carat pink diamond was sold for a record-breaking £29 million, the highest price ever paid for a jewel. It was sold to a British dealer at an auction in Geneva after being held in a private collection for 60 years.

Rio Tinto said extremely high quality pink diamonds could fetch in excess of US$1 million per carat, adding that Christie's has only auctioned 18 polished pink diamonds larger than 10 carats in its 244-year history.

Comments

Pink Meteorite reveals rare unstable element

Close-up of a meteorite sample, showing a ceramic-like refractory inclusion (in pink). Refractory inclusions are the oldest-known rocks in the solar system (4.5 billion years old). An analysis of uranium isotope ratios showed that a long-lived curium isotope was present early in the solar system when this inclusion was formed. Look below to see the entire meteorite. Image via Origins Lab, University of Chicago. A pink meteorite inclusion nicknamed Curious Marie shows that a highly unstable element, curium, was present in the early solar system. Researchers have found evidence that curium – a rare unstable heavy element – was present during the early formation of our solar system. Even though curium has long-since decayed into a form of uranium, signs of its presence remain in a pinkish ceramic inclusion nicknamed Curious Marie, a tribute to Marie Curie for whom the element curium was named. This discovery will help scientists refine their models of how elements are forged ...

Very Rare Oregon Opal

Exceptional and very rare Oregon opal with visual effect of being underwater when held to light.obtained at Opal Butte Mine. Oregon, USA Visit https://www.thestonehunters.org

Fluor-liddicoatite [or just Liddocoatite] is Rare.

Fluor-liddicoatite [or just Liddocoatite] is a rare member of the tourmaline group of minerals, elbaite subgroup, and the theoretical calcium end-member of the elbaite-fluor-liddicoatite series.

The Stone Hunters

Search This Blog