Like colorless stones, they are made of pure carbon. The Cape Town Diamond Museum explained that nitrogen or boron is responsible for other diamond colors, red diamonds are rather different. How does a red diamond get its breathtaking hue?
26, 2006, which also featured the De Beers Millennium Star, The Steinmetz Pink and the Aurora Collection, a set of 296 naturally colored diamonds weighing in a total of 267.45 carats. Later, it was included in another exhibition from Jthrough Feb. 30, 2003, alongside other legendary gems like the Millennium Star, the Pumpkin diamond, the Heart of Eternity and the Ocean Dream. The stunning stone was featured as part of the "Splendor of Diamonds" Exhibition June 2 to Sept. The Moussaieff Red on display twice at the Natural History Museum of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. "It's a really surprising cranberry color, quite unlike any other diamond I've ever seen," Hing said, as quoted by the source. The diamond was named the Red Shield, until Moussaieff Jewelers acquired it in the early 2000s for around $8 million.Īccording to Diamond News, expert gemologist Michael Hing, who saw the diamond in person around that time, was taken aback by its beauty. It was then bought by the William Goldberg Diamond Corporation of New York, which is known for possessing remarkable stones like the Guinea Star and the Premier Rose.Īfter the Goldberg Corporation cut the stone into a triangular brilliant cut, also known as a trillion or trilliant cut, it lost 8.79 carats in the process - but the result of the transformation was stunning. The source noted that it's likely the stone was formed in the mining area's alluvial deposits. According to Internet Stones, a farmer in Brazil found the deep red diamond in the mid-'90s, and in the rough, it weighed an impressive 13.90 carats.
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