To properly define what largest diamond, you need to understand the difference between a diamond and a diamond.Diamond - the raw stone.Brilliant cut diamond is called.After the cut stone can significantly lose weight.This is due to the fact that natural stone is always present any defects - foreign inclusions, cracks and so on. D. Therefore, cutters have to choose the most suitable in stone for processing place, sometimes chipping away pieces or even breaking it into pieces.
For example, as has been made the biggest diamond in the world - "Cullinan-I».The stone from which to get this diamond, weighing 3106.8 carats.(621.35 g.) And had a size 100h65h50 mm.They found him in 1905 in the Transvaal, at the time a British colony.Managing one of the mines for the extraction of diamonds by chance noticed the gleam in a simple pile of rocks in one of the areas of the mine.Having examined the stones, he found a diamond of extraordinary size.
mine belonged to a man named Cullinan, so the stone and named - "Cullinan", immortalizing the name of the site owner.Thomas Cullinan put your crystal from which was then made the biggest diamond for sale in a bank in Johannesburg, where he spent two years.Then, the crystal was presented to the birthday monarch of England Edward VII.
King sent him to the best facet Dutch jewelers, brothers Asskor.Joseph studied Asskor stone for six months looking for a so-called point of impact.This was considered the most skillful master jeweler of his time in terms of the correct location of the point.
task was very responsible even for him.Witnesses said that when Joseph after many calculations, finally hit the stone, his excitement and tension immediately fainted.And only came to himself, he was relieved to see that all calculated correctly.Stone broke into several pieces.It was subsequently made nine large diamonds, 96 - a medium-sized, and one almazik left untreated.The largest diamond, which is derived from a crystal, called "Cullinan-I».Weight it was about 530 carats.
The world's largest diamond is also called the place where he was found - the "Great Star of Africa."It is pear-shaped and is the main decoration of the English scepter.The rest of the diamonds, which are called "the Lesser Star of Africa", nowadays exhibited in the Museum Tower
Although officially "Cullinan-I» is still considered the largest crystal diamond has more than him.This diamond «The Golden Jubilee» weighing 545.7 carats.(109.1 g).The stone from which it was made, weighed 756 carats.Like the "Cullinan", he was found in South Africa in the 80s of the last century.At the moment, the crystal is the property of the King of Thailand.So actually «The Golden Jubilee» is the largest diamond on Earth.
Maybe someday be found crystals and a larger, but still "Cullinan-I» and «The Golden Jubilee» - two wonderful stone, which are considered to be the biggest and valuable in the world, and for a long time will pleasehow our contemporaries and their descendants.
