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It was then cut by Joseph Asscher & Co. in Amsterdam. Cullinan produced stones of various cuts and sizes, the largest of which is named Cullinan I, and named the Great Star of Africa by Edward VII, and at 530.4 carats (106.08 g) it is the largest clear cut diamond in the world. The stone is mounted in the head of the Sovereign's Sceptre with Cross.
The Golden Jubilee Diamond, a 545.67 carat (109.13 g) brown diamond, is the largest cut and faceted diamond in the world. It outweighs the Cullinan I by 15.37 carats (3.07 g). The Golden Jubilee Diamond was discovered in 1985 at the Premier Mine , which is also the origin of the Cullinan diamond (1905) and other notables such as the Taylor ...
The largest stone obtained from Cullinan diamond. Cullinan I or Great Star of Africa, with a weight of 530.4 carats, is the third largest cut diamond in the world. Currently located in the head of the Sovereign's Sceptre of the British Crown Jewels.
The famous Cullinan was 3,106 carats and was cut into gems, some of which form part of the British Crown Jewels. ... was recognized as the second-biggest mined diamond in the world at 1,758 carats.
The Koh-i-Noor (Persian for 'Mountain of Light'; / ˌ k oʊ ɪ ˈ n ʊər / KOH-in-OOR), [b] [4] [5] also spelled Koh-e-Noor, Kohinoor and Koh-i-Nur, is one of the largest cut diamonds in the world, weighing 105.6 carats (21.12 g). [a] It is part of the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom. The diamond is currently set in the Crown of Queen ...
Botswana, a country of 2.6 million people in southern Africa, is the second-biggest producer of natural diamonds behind Russia and has unearthed all of the world's biggest stones in recent years ...
It is 41.40 mm × 29.50 mm × 12.15 mm (1.630 in × 1.161 in × 0.478 in) and weighs around 182 metric carats. It is the world's largest known pink diamond. [3] It may have been cut originally from an even larger stone. [7]
Talk about a rock! Lucara, a Canadian mining firm, just sold a $63M diamond to a Dubai-based company and this gem is seriously no joke.. The 813-karat diamond (which is roughly 407 times the size ...