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In 1879, the Tiffany branch in Paris obtained the Tiffany Diamond, which weighed 287.42 carats in the rough. It was the largest yellow diamond found up to that time. The task of supervising the cutting of this stone was the responsibility of one George Frederick Kunz (1856–1932), a twenty-three-year-old gemologist who had just joined the firm ...
Uncle Sam diamond. Uncle Sam is the nickname for the largest diamond ever discovered in the United States. It was found in 1924 in Murfreesboro, Arkansas, at the Prairie Creek pipe mine, which later became known as the Crater of Diamonds State Park. The diamond was named "Uncle Sam" after the nickname of its finder, Wesley Oley Basham, a worker ...
canary yellow Lee J. Wagner of the Arkansas Diamond Company Donated in 1926 to the National Museum of Natural History by the heirs of Washington Roebling [7] [8] [9] 1924 Uncle Sam: 40.23 8.046 Wesley Oley Basham: Largest diamond ever discovered in the United States; as of 2022 in the collection of the Smithsonian [10] [6] [7] 1956 Star of ...
Arkansas Man Finds Second-Largest Diamond Ever Found at the Park ... Anderson also previously found a 3.83-carat yellow diamond in December 2011 and a 6.19-carat white diamond in April 2014, the ...
California resident Noreen Wredberg was visiting Crater of Diamonds State Park with her husband Michael when she discovered a 4.38-carat yellow diamond on the ground, according to the Arkansas ...
It turns out he found a 4.87-carat diamond in the shape of a pyramid — the largest diamond registered there since 2020, officials say. “Mr. Evans’ diamond is spectacular to see.
Found above ground in Lençóis: 1895: Eventually sold to I. K. Gulland of London, where it was broken up into small pieces as industrial diamond drills. [7] 3106.75: Cullinan Diamond South Africa: Premier Mine: 1905: British Crown (I and II) and Charles III (III–IX) The largest gem-quality diamond ever discovered. 2492 [8] Motswedi Botswana ...
In October 2018, a yellow diamond of 552 carats was found at the mine. This is the largest diamond ever found in North America. [12] On January 23, 2024, a Northwestern Air charter flight carrying workers to the mine crashed shortly after takeoff from Fort Smith Airport, killing six people and injuring one. [13] [14]