{"id":130621,"date":"2024-08-22T16:59:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T14:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gioiellis.com\/?p=130621"},"modified":"2024-08-22T16:59:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T14:59:55","slug":"maxi-diamante-scoperto-in-botswana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gioiellis.com\/en\/maxi-diamante-scoperto-in-botswana\/","title":{"rendered":"Maxi diamond discovered in Botswana"},"content":{"rendered":"

It would be far too big for a ring. But the 2,492-carat, or 498-gram, rough diamond discovered in Botswana will likely be transformed into several exceptional jewels. The stone appears to be the second-largest quality diamond ever found. The discovery was announced by the Canadian mining company Lucara Diamond. The image leaves no doubt: the rough diamond is truly enormous. The only thing larger than this gem is the 3,106-carat Cullinan diamond, mined in South Africa in 1905, when it was still a British colony, and given to King Edward VII. It was cut into several gems, some of which are now part of the British Crown Jewels.
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Il maxi diamante di Lucara Diamond<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nIt is difficult to determine the value of a stone of this type. The Karowe mine, where the stone was mined, has already produced very large stones. In 2019, for example, Lucara mined the 1,758-carat Sewelo diamond, which was later purchased by Louis Vuitton for an undisclosed sum. Another large diamond, called the 1,111-carat Lesedi La Rona, also came from Karowe, and was purchased by British jeweler Graff for $53 million in 2017.
\nBut the largest diamond ever found is black: the Sergio stone, discovered in Brazil in 1895 and cut for use in industrial drilling. Black stones like these, called carbonado, are thought to be parts of meteorites.
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Il presidente del Botswana, Mokgweetsi Masisi, mostra il diamante di 2492 carati<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It would be far too big for a ring. But the 2,492-carat, or 498-gram, rough diamond discovered in Botswana will likely be transformed into several exceptional jewels. The stone appears to be the second-largest quality diamond ever found. The discovery was announced by the Canadian mining company Lucara Diamond. The image leaves no doubt: the rough diamond is truly enormous. The only thing larger than this gem is the 3,106-carat Cullinan diamond, mined in South Africa in 1905, when it was still a British colony, and given to King Edward VII. It was cut into several gems, some of which<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":130623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[258],"class_list":["post-130621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-diamante","style--link-1"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gioiellis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gioiellis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gioiellis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gioiellis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gioiellis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130621"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gioiellis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130626,"href":"https:\/\/gioiellis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130621\/revisions\/130626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gioiellis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gioiellis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gioiellis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gioiellis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}