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The Blue Moon of Josephine is a 12.03 carats (2.406 g) blue diamond, described as flawless by experts, that was discovered in South Africa in January 2014 and was sold at a Sotheby's auction in Geneva in November 2015 at a record-setting price of $48.4 million (43.2 million Swiss francs plus fees). [1]
The stone was unveiled in April 2019, and is the largest ever blue diamond found in the country. [3] The stone is anticipated to be sold in November 2019. The "nearly flawless" Okavango Blue Diamond went on public exhibition for the first time in 2022 at the American Museum of Natural History .
Detailed view of the recreated great Golden Fleece of king Louis XV of France. Below the 107 carats (21.4 g) spinel Côte de Bretagne hangs the French Blue diamond and the fleece itself, set with hundreds of yellow diamond replicas. The Tavernier Blue was the precursor diamond to the Blue Diamond of the French Crown (aka the French Blue).
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Blue diamond impatiens, a flowering plant of the family Balsaminaceae; The Blue Diamond Affair, a series of events triggered by the 1989 theft of gems belonging to the Saudi royal family; Nickname of the United States Navy Strike Fighter Squadron 146; Blue Diamond, a character on the Cartoon Network show Steven Universe
Amakan, also known as sawali in the northern Philippines, is a type of traditional woven split-bamboo mats used as walls, paneling, or wall cladding in the Philippines. [1] They are woven into various intricate traditional patterns, often resulting in repeating diagonal, zigzag, or diamond-like shapes.
The original owner of the diamond is the Tereshchenko family. The diamond weighed 150 carats before the cut and was secretly brought from India especially for Mykhailo Tereshchenko. [citation needed] The "Tereshchenko Diamond" is the world's largest blue diamond and is the second largest diamond to the "Hope", which belonged to the French crown.
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]