Currently, which is the largest diamond in the world?

Answer 1

Cullinan I - also known as The Star of Africa was named after Sir Thomas Cullinan, owner of the mining company, and currently claims the title of largest cut diamond in the world. Of all the worlds largest diamonds Cullinan I is the largest. It was cut by Asscher in Amsterdam, weighs 530.20 carats, and has 74 facets. The Cullinan now resides in the Tower of London and is set in the sceptre of King Edward VII.

Here is the biggest diamond out of this world.

According to American astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, a white dwarf star in the constellation of Centaurus, next to the Southern Cross, has been found to have a 3000-kilometre-wide core of crystallised carbon, or diamond.

It weighs 2.27 thousand trillion trillion tonnes - that's 10 billion trillion trillion carats, or a 1 followed by 34 zeroes. The biggest earthly jewel is one of the British crown jewels, the 530-carat Star of Africa.

Answer 2

Cullinan I - also known as The Star of Africa was named after Sir Thomas Cullinan, owner of the mining company, and currently claims the title of largest cut diamond in the world. Of all the worlds largest diamonds Cullinan I is the largest. It was cut by Asscher in Amsterdam, weighs 530.20 carats, and has 74 facets. The Cullinan now resides in the Tower of London and is set in the sceptre of King Edward VII. It was 3106 carats before it was cut.

Answer 3

The Cullinan I is the largest gem quality diamond found to date with an uncut mass of 3,106.75 carats. It was subsequently cut into many pieces with the Great Star of Africa and the Lesser Star of Africa being the two largest pieces.

BPM 37093 appears to be the largest extraterrestrial diamond found to date with an estimated mass of 10 decillion (1×10exp34) carats.

The Golden Jubilee is the largest cut gem quality diamond at 545.67 carats.

The largest carbonado ever found appears to be about 3150 carats.

Answer 4

The largest used to be the Cullinan (at 3106 carats) but it was cut into a smaller diamond, the Star of Africa (503 carats) for the Crown and scepter of England.
There is also the Millennium stone (777 carat) found in 1993
The Lesotho Promise is currently the biggest found this century (at 603 carat), and goes on sale at Antwerp soon.
Check this site for details:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5409092.stm

Answer 5

A 603-carat white diamond has been found in the southern African kingdom of Lesotho, making it the biggest rock of the century and one of the world's largest, it was announced on Wednesday.

Answer 6

KOH-I-NOOR ("Mountain of Light") is one of the worlds largest diamonds, it weighed in at 186 carats when it was first discovered *in 1304*. This oval shaped cut stone is believed to have been set in the famous peacock throne of Shah Jehan. Recut during the reign of Queen Victoria it now weighs 108 carats and forms part of the British Crown Jewels.

Answer 7

The Hope Diamond is still the world's largest blue diamond - yes blue

Answer 8

Cullinan one million may be the respond on your query, in case you will have asked this query earlier July 2003, 'coz that's the time whilst 3 diamonds, each and each form of measuring 2500 atypical carats (are you able to think of!) have been modern in a small village in India (do not understand which state). they are announcing, the diamonds are so costly that even the joint challenge of america of us of a, the U.ok. & France would desire to not purchase any single a sort of! (not to indicate the probabilities of alternative international places). in certainty, if India is in a position to sell them, she would exchange into the richest usa in the international. secret nonetheless hangs around as to whom they might have belonged to. some say it belonged to the dynasty that governed at that place & they might have left those via foreign places assaults. collectively as others say it exchange into in basic terms not found. although, they have been found by danger by utilising a villager collectively as excavating the floor of his dirt-outfitted hut, & now they are saved in some suitable secret place. the authorities. of India even attempts to maintain their existence a secret, which you will come to whilst a superb form of the solutions on your query would be Cullinan one million, of a few 530 atypical carrats.

Answer 9

Guess what I live near the town of Cullinan in Pretoria South Africa

Answer 10

The Cartman Diamond. Or mabye that was just from an episode of Garfield and Friends. :)