The Expensive De Beers Centenary Diamond

Description

The De Beers Centenary Diamond is the third biggest diamond, at 273.85 carats and 54.77 grams, to have been shaped in the Premier Mine. The Centenary Diamond is rated in color as evaluation D color by the Gemological organization of America, which is the maximum grade of colorless diamond and is within and outwardly flawless. It was called the Centenary Diamond as it was obtainable in the uneven for the Centennial Celebration of De Beers consolidated Mines on May 11, 1988. The Centenary Diamond was unveiling in last form in May 1991.

History Of Diamond

The De Beers Centenary Diamond anniversary of De Beers Consolidated Mines approved off quietly in 1948, the massive post-WWII enlargement and development of the diamond manufacturing had barely begun, while more than a few imperative sources of diamonds, counting the Premier Mine, were still closed, while others remained to be exposed. Forty years later the annual output of diamonds exceeds 100 million carats and sales of uneven diamonds reached approximately $5 billion.

Taking place March 11th, 1988, the centenary celebrations of De Beers took place in Kimberly and a banquet was held to shut the Kimberly Mine. An spectators of four hundred people, counting legislative body of several nationwide governments of diamond-producing countries and dignitaries from a range of sections of the manufacturing, listened to the friendly speech of the chairman, Julian Oglivie Thompson, totally not ready for his final sentence: "We have healthier at the Premier Mine a diamond of 599 carats which is ideal in color - really it is one of the biggest top-color diamonds ever originate."

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