Largest pink diamond found in 300 years

The 170-carat stone has been named Lulo Rose, after the mine in Angola, southern Africa, the place it was discovered.

It’s believed to be the most important pink diamond mined because the 185-carat Daria-i-Noor, which was mined from a bigger stone and is now among the many Iranian crown jewels.

The Lulo Rose is a sort 2a diamond, which implies it has little to no impurities.

“Being a report, this spectacular pink diamond mined from Lulo exhibits that Angola stays a significant participant on the world stage,” mentioned Diamantino Azevedo, Angola’s minister of mineral sources.

How a lot does it value?

Diamonds just like the Lulo Rose have offered for tens of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} previously.

One often called the Pink Star offered at public sale in Hong Kong for $71.2 million in 2017.

But it surely’s not possible to invest on the financial worth of the Lulo Rose till it’s lower, mentioned Joanna Hardy, an impartial wonderful jewellery specialist.

Pink diamonds are extraordinarily uncommon, however the identical bodily attributes that make them uncommon additionally make them very arduous and troublesome to form.

Hardy mentioned the stone is unlikely to finish up within the public eye, and even auctioned off, as retailers have clients ready to snap up such a uncommon discover.

The most important identified pink diamond is the Daria-i-Noor, found in India, which specialists imagine was lower from a fair bigger stone.

The most important tough diamond of any colour ever recorded is the Cullinan diamond, present in South Africa in 1905.

Weighing 3,107 carats, which is greater than half a kilo, it was lower into 105 totally different stones.

The most important of those, the Cullinan I, is the world’s largest clear-cut diamond and is a part of the UK’s crown jewels.