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The Canary Diamond is an uncut canary-yellow 17.86 carat diamond found in 1917 at what is now the Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is in the collection of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History . [ 3 ]
The Moon of Baroda is a 24.04 carats (4.808 g) cut diamond discovered in Vadodara (Baroda), India. [1] The diamond, canary yellow in colour, is cut in a pear shape. When found, the rough diamond weighed 25.95 carats (5.190 g). The Moon of Baroda was originally owned by the Maharajas of Baroda.
Discovered in 2015, it is the 5th largest diamond ever discovered at the Crater of Diamonds State Park, Arkansas Identified as a Type IIa crystal, the 8.52 carat diamond was cut and polished by Mike Botha into a custom-designed 4.605 carat Triolette shape during a week long event in North Little Rock and was graded a D IF, 0 Polish & 0 Symmetry ...
Type Ib diamonds absorb green light in addition to blue, and have a more intense or darker yellow or brown colour than Type Ia diamonds. The stones have an intense yellow or occasionally brown tint; the rare canary diamonds belong to this type, which represents only 0.1% of known natural diamonds. The visible absorption spectrum is gradual ...
Diamond production [2] (million USD) Country 2023 2022 2021 2020 Russia 3606: 3554: 2643: 2255 Botswana 3283: 4700: 4657: 2521 Canada 1550: 1878: 1512: 929 Angola 1532: 1965: 1626: 1017 Namibia ...
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:Individual diamonds by origin and Category:Individual diamonds by color The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.
India led the world in diamond production from the time of their discovery in approximately the 9th century BC [131] [132] to the mid-18th century AD, but the commercial potential of these sources had been exhausted by the late 18th century and at that time India was eclipsed by Brazil where the first non-Indian diamonds were found in 1725. [131]
The Golconda diamondiferous region is located in the Southern Indian peninsular shield, [2] which was formed during the process of proterozoic and Insular India. [3] The region is spread over 50,000 km 2 (19,000 sq mi), within the sediments of the Krishna-Pennar river basin and Deccan Traps, [2] and contains 120 out of the 150 kimberlite pipes in India. [4]