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The Largest Rough Diamonds in The World

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Articles about the Cullinan Diamond – the world's largest rough diamond ever to be found on earth at a record breaking size of 3,106.75 carats (621.35 g). The Cullinan diamond was cut by the Asscher Brothers in Amsterdam.
    
Articles about the Excelsior Diamond – the world's second largest rough diamond ever to be found on earth at a record breaking size of 3995.20ct. The Excelsior diamond was found during 1893 in South Africa Jagersfontein mine by one of the workers who gave it to the mine manager instead of to the gaurds.
    

The Largest Rough Diamonds in The World

keywords: Large Rough Diamond, Huge Rough Diamond, Cullinan, Excelsior, Star of Africa

Huge Rough Diamond Discovered In South Africa

Tuesday, Sep 29 2009 8:25AM  Diamond news agency, David Berkovits
Huge Rough Diamond Huge Rough Diamond Discovered In South Africa A recent gem dug up at the historic Cullinan mine in South Africa weighs 507 carats It is believed to be the 19th biggest diamond ever discovered

Rare blue diamond to be centrepiece at Sothbey's auction

Wednesday, Apr 1 2009 5:00PM  DiamondWorld News HeadLines,
Rare blue diamond to be centrepiece at Sothbey's auction The diamond has been sourced from a rough mined at Petra's Cullinan mine
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Sotheby's To Sell Big Blue Diamond

Wednesday, Apr 1 2009 9:02AM  Luxist,
Sotheby's To Sell Big Blue Diamond

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Although overall diamond prices are down the sales for the big and rare stones are still pretty strong Petra Diamonds a miner of stones in Africa is hoping for a high number for their first sale of a cut and polished stone through Sotheby's from the Cullinan mine in South Africa The Cullinan mine has yielded most of the best blue diamonds in the world The stone has a fancy vivid blue color and is rated internally flawless Petra decided to sell the stone as cut and polished versus selling the rough as they usually do because they are hoping to get maximum exposure for the gem

The stone will be shown in Hong Kong Paris New York and London before winding up in Geneva for the It is estimated to sell for as much as $85 million Maybe the stone will appeal to famous diamond dealer Laurence Graff Last Decemberd a grayish-blue 3556 carat stone with an impressive historical provenance for $243 million making it the world's most expensive blue ...
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Sotheby’s to Offer 7-ct. Cullinan Blue Diamond

Tuesday, Mar 31 2009 8:14AM  JCK Breaking News,
Sotheby&rsquos to Offer 7-ct Cullinan Blue Diamond Sotheby&rsquos will be offering a 703-ct fancy vivid blue diamond from the Cullinan diamond mine at its sale of Magnificent Jewels in Geneva May 12 at the Beau-Rivage Hotel
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Sotheby’s to Offer 7-ct. Cullinan Blue Diamond

Tuesday, Mar 31 2009 6:14AM  JCK Online - Diamonds News,
Sotheby’s to Offer 7-ct Cullinan Blue Diamond Sotheby’s will be offering a 703-ct fancy vivid blue diamond from the Cullinan diamond mine at its sale of Magnificent Jewels in Geneva May 12 at the Beau-Rivage Hotel
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Sotheby’s Geneva Sale Features a Rare 7ct Blue Diamond from Cullinan

Monday, Mar 30 2009 9:08PM  Rapaport - News,
Sotheby’s Geneva Sale Features a Rare 7ct Blue Diamond from Cullinan RAPAPORT Sotheby’s will auction a rare fancy vivid blue diamond from the Cullinan Mine at its upcoming Geneva Magnificent Jewels sale in May The 703-carat diamond was cut from a 2658-carat rough stone mined by Petra Diamonds at Cullinan in South Africa The diamond has been graded by the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) as fancy vivid blue and internally flawless Sotheby's presa
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Excelsior rough from Jagersfontein, bluish-white color and a number of internal black spots- Reference Database -Internet Stones.COM

Thursday, Mar 26 2009 7:52AM  Internet Stones.COM Feeds,
Excelsior rough from Jagersfontein bluish-white color and a number of internal black spots- Reference Database -Internet StonesCOM The name Excelsior meaning higher for the massive rough diamond weighing 995 carats seems to have been inspired by the unique shape of the diamond that looked like a loaf of rye bread flat on one side and rising to a peak on the other side


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$10.4 million worth for one of the Huge Rough Diamond

Sunday, Mar 15 2009 3:09PM  The Diamond Industry - Articles - Zimbio,
$104 million worth for one of the Huge Rough Diamond posted by cooluks
Sold at $104 million one of the largest rough diamonds is expected to be transformed into a polished stone of more than 100 carats The huge 493-carat rough diamond from Lesotho the 18th largest ever recovered in the world was sold to Graff Jewelers of London at a tender in Antwerp

Miner Gem Diamonds explained that the diamond recovered at Letseng le Terai mine in September was sold for an expensive price of $21000 per carat against a global average diamond price of $81 per carat The largest rough quality-gem diamond ever found was the Cullinan Diamond found in South Africa in 1905 at 310675 carats "The Letseng Legacy was named to reflect the growing legacy that the Letseng le Terai mine is creating as a producer of significant diamonds" Gem Diamonds said in a statement

Letseng Diamonds 70 percent owned by Gem Diamonds and 30 percent owned by the government of Lesotho has now produced three of the world's top ...
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