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The Blue Magic Diamond
Origin of name
The name "Blue Magic" for the diamond appears to highlight the unusual fancy vivid blue color of the diamond, the premier color rating for a blue diamond, which is an awfully rare event. The fact of blue diamonds is an exceptionally rare incidence in nature; on top of that to have a fancy vivid blue diamond, the maximum color grading for any color, becomes a "rarest of the rare" event in nature. The view of the diamond on a photograph is wonderful; without doubt having a firsthand knowledge in screening the diamond, whose beauty would be incredible.
Characteristics of the stone
The GIA certificate questioned for this diamond states, that it has a customized pear-shaped cut, with a power of 12.02 carats. The diamond is further declared to be a naturally colored, fancy vivid blue diamond, with clarity of VVS-2, only a little less than internally flawless.
The Blue Magic diamond is a rare Type IIb diamond, whose incident is less than 0.1 % of all naturally occurring diamonds. The diamond is Type II, since it is nitrogen-free or includes imperceptible quantities of nitrogen. Type II diamonds are again divided into two :- Type IIa and Type IIb.History of the diamond
The early history of the diamond, such as mine of origin and country, date of discovery, original owners of the diamond, persons involved in the cutting, polishing etc. are all unknown. The diamond first came up for public sale at Christie's in 2001. The stone was put in a circle made of 18k white gold and was projected to put up for sale between $ 5 and $ 6 million. The stone was however withdrawn from the sale, as it did not recognize its set aside.
Traditionally, the innovative source of blue diamonds was the Kollur mines near Golconda, in the Southern Indian State of Andhra Pradesh. Golconda was a fortification city, now cleaned out, lying 8 Km west of Hyderabad City, in North-Central Andhra Pradesh State, Southern India. It was the Capital of the Qutub Shahi Kingdom from 1512 to 1687, one of the five Muslim Sultanates of the Deccan. This was also the period, when the Kollur mines, discovered in the early 16th century, had peak production outputs, as witnessed by Tavernier himself, when he visited Golconda in 1642. Around 20 highly productive mines, employing over 60,000 people were in active production during Tavernier's visit.
The region of Golconda lies among the lower attains of the Godavari and Krishna rivers and completed to the Bay of Bengal coast. In 1687, the ruling period of Qutub Shahis was defeated by the Mogul Emperor Aurangzeb and Golconda was occupied to the Mogul Empire (1526-1857). The Golconda fortification is 3 miles in boundary, with concentric masonary-block walls. Palaces, mosques and the Qutub Shahi tombs still stay behind in-tact. The diamonds appear to have been resulting from the conglomerate rocks of the close by hills. The diamond mines known as the Kollur mines, were really positioned roughly about 100 miles east of Golconda, on the right bank of the Krishna river, west of Chintapilly. All diamonds discovered in the Kollur and other mines in the region start their way to the diamond marketplace in the city of Golconda, which was also supported by foreign states such as Persians and Europeans. Several traditionally significant diamonds such as the Hope, Darya-i-Nur, Dresden Green, Nur-ul-Ain, Tereschenko, Shah, Shah Jahaan, Idol's Eye etc. appear to have originated in these mines.
The Indian deposits of diamonds together with the blue diamonds are now totally exhausted, and the present day resource of blue diamonds is generally the Premier diamond mines in Transvaal, South Africa. The Blue Magic diamond also appears to have initiated in these mines. The eleven exceptionally rare blue diamonds that created part of the De Beers Limited Edition Millennium Diamonds group, demonstrated at the Millennium Dome during the year 2000, were all basis from the Premier diamond mines in South Africa. The occurrence of blue diamonds is supposed to be awfully rare, but if this statement is to be measured an algebraic analysis of the construction of blue diamonds
