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Huge pink diamond found in Australia
Weight gem - 12, 76 carats, making it the largest pink diamond ever discovered in Australia.
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A rare stone was found in the diamond mine Argyle (Argyle) and, like all large stones, was named - «Argyle Pink Jubilee».
After the cut stone evaluated by an expert, and then the mining company Rio Tinto is going to send a pink diamond in the world tour, and at the end of the year to sell it. The share of the mine accounts for about 90 percent of world production of pink diamonds.
Estimate the cost of «Argyle Pink Jubilee» is impossible. It is noted only that the stones of this level are kept in museum collections or owned by royal families. Thus, similar in color 24-carat diamond «Williamson Pink», discovered in 1947 in Tanzania, he was presented to the future Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain for the wedding
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4 photos via cit.ua
A rare stone was found in the diamond mine Argyle (Argyle) and, like all large stones, was named - «Argyle Pink Jubilee».
After the cut stone evaluated by an expert, and then the mining company Rio Tinto is going to send a pink diamond in the world tour, and at the end of the year to sell it. The share of the mine accounts for about 90 percent of world production of pink diamonds.
Estimate the cost of «Argyle Pink Jubilee» is impossible. It is noted only that the stones of this level are kept in museum collections or owned by royal families. Thus, similar in color 24-carat diamond «Williamson Pink», discovered in 1947 in Tanzania, he was presented to the future Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain for the wedding
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