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Rare Pink Diamond Found After 300 Years
- metadat 4y agoCrazy stats. > A big pink diamond of 170 carats has been discovered in Angola and is claimed to be the largest such gemstone found in 300 years > Only one in 10,000 diamonds is colored pink > The pink gemstone is the fifth largest diamond found at the mine where 27 diamonds of 100 carats or more have been found > Angola’s mines make it one of the world’s top 10 producers of diamonds > The pink diamond is an impressive size but many clear diamonds are larger than 1,000 carats. The Cullinan diamond found in South Africa in 1905 tips the scales at 3,106 carats and it’s in the British Sovereign’s Scepter.