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Glass Gem corn was created in the 1980s when Barnes cross bred a mixture of Pawnee miniature popcorn, Osage Red Flour, and Osage Greyhorse corns. Barnes isolated the three varieties of ancestral corns from plants which volunteered in his fields. These corns were historically grown by the Cherokee and the Pawnee. This created a small-eared corn ...
The diamond was recovered in April 2019 by the Lucara Diamond Corp in its Karowe diamond mine in Botswana. The diamond is 1,758 carats and weighs 352 grams or 12.39 oz. [ 1 ] At the time it was found, Sewelô was the largest diamond in Botswana's history, surpassing the 1,111 carats (222 g, 7.83 oz.) Lesedi La Rona extracted at the same mine on ...
Glass Gem corn, a unique variety of rainbow-colored corn, became an Internet sensation in 2012 when a photo of the sparkling cob was posted to Facebook. This multi-colored corn is real and there's ...
Logo used since 2010. Diamonique is the brand name used by television shopping network QVC for their cubic zirconia simulated colorless diamond, simulated colored diamond, and simulated colored gemstone jewelry (cubic zirconia is a common type of gemstone substitute). [1]
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On August 22, 2024, Lucara announced the discovery of a 498.4 g (2,492 carats) rough diamond there. [15] Currently, it is the second-largest gem-quality diamond ever found [16] and, according to the government of Botswana, the largest ever discovered in the country. [13]
The business was founded by Clifford Elphick in July 2005. [3]The company acquired Letšeng diamond mine in 2006, and has since found five of the 20 largest known white gem quality diamonds, elevating the mine to the highest dollar-per-carat kimberlite diamond operation in the world.
During this time, Gabi Tolkowsky was again selected by the De Beers group in order to design and cut the Golden Jubilee Diamond. The Golden Jubilee is the largest faceted diamond in the world, weighing 545.67 carats (109.134 g), more than the Cullinan Diamond. The diamond was a 755.50-carat (151.100 g) rough stone.