Did you know that the price of a diamond can reach hundreds of millions dollars? These rare objects being a pride collection of many kings and wealthiest people around the world. From ancient time until now, diamonds are always sought, always hunted by humans. Because the price is very expensive, so diamond become a symbol of wealth and perfection.
A mining in South Africa, in the Lesotho Kingdom, lately found one of the world's largest diamond which have weight nearly 500 carats. This diamond has the potential to beat one of the largest diamond throughout history. Diamonds which is found in the Letseng mining is expected will more bigger, better, and without defect. It's weight about 500 carats, while the more cheap diamonds with the quality and level of clarity is lower than this diamond can be sold 12 million U.S. dollars.
Letseng is the most productive mining in history. Four of the 20 The world's largest raw diamond found in these mines, including three of the world's largest diamond are: Lesotho Promise (603 carats), Leteng Legacy (493 carats), and Lesotho Brown (601 carats).
There are four things that determine the price of diamonds: carat, color, clarity, and cutting or often called as 4C. Cutting is important because it determines the proportion of rock after the cut. Diamond will reflect light very bright if it's cutting is perfect. The less damage, meaning more light bounce perfectly.
History records, the world's largest diamond is Cullinan found in the South Africa in 1905. Weighing more than 3100 carats before it is cut into more than 1,000 parts. The bulk of the diamond pieces is now enthroned gracefully in the British royal crown
Because it's beautiful sheen diamond jewelry is always be a leading fashion accessory as a complement of appearance. Not only that, diamond is also an impressive art until the price can be very high.
Diamond is woman's best friend. Diamond is a perfection. Diamond is an immortality. From various exotic beauty of the diamond, there are two types of truly rare diamonds: red diamonds and green diamonds.
Red diamond Red diamonds are really rare, because the natural red diamond certified, there are only less than 20 in the worldwide. More intense the red color, more rare the diamond. Red diamond was first discovered in the 18th century. Now, the red diamonds can be sold more than 1 million usd per carat.
Green diamond Green diamonds are formed due to the exposure of atomic radiation over millions years ago. Mentioned that the natural green diamonds are a rare diamonds and seldom found.
The most famous green diamond is the "Dresden Green Diamond" which have weight 40.70 carats and has a pure green color evenly. Now, the price range of green diamond is more than $ 500 million usd.
Red diamonds are generally more difficult to be found than the green diamonds. Red diamonds can only be found in Australia, Brazil, and South Africa while the green diamonds can be found in India, Congo, Ghana, and Siberia.
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