8 Biggest And Most Expensive Gemstones off All Time

it's pretty amazing but a different spatial arrangement of carbon atoms can form graphite in one case and one of the most expensive and beautiful stones in the world in the other diamonds are a girl's best friend as we all know hello everyone today we are going to talk about unique crystals that anyone would love to own here we go [Music] topaz is one of the most ancient stones known to humanity it was first mentioned in the oldest translation of the Old Testament the best samples of these cut stones can be easily mistaken for diamonds this is exactly what happened with the topaz weighing 1600 carats on the crown of the ruler of Portugal which had been for a long time considered the world's largest diamond topaz crystals can grow to gigantic size some of the largest of these stones can weigh 30 to 50 and even 117 kilograms the biggest topaz ever existing was called El Dorado its original weight was 37 kilograms but after cutting the stone lost up to 80% of its area and ended up weighing just 31,000 carats or six kilograms but these losses were not in vain El Dorado is a perfect form it is known for its unusual purity in rich emerald color today the stone is stored in the National Museum of Natural History of the United States the world's largest cut diamond was found in 1905 at a mine in South Africa and named after its owner : an this treasure waved 3106 carrots or 621 grams with a value no less than ten to twelve million dollars a huge amount of money at that time the cutting of the largest diamond was entrusted to one of the best jewel cutters in europe joseph asher since there were cracks in the stone it was impossible to make one large diamond from it it took the jeweler's several months to get the stone ready to split the piece into two diamonds one wrong calculation and he would end up turning the large diamond into several pieces instead of two which ended up happening anyway at the most critical moment he even lost consciousness because of the excitement however his calculations were almost correct as a result of the split : and did form two large diamonds although with seven medium diamonds and about 100 small fragments the diamond cutting took more than two years of painstaking work the biggest fragment was called coolin and one or big star of Africa it weighed five hundred and thirty point two carats it now adorns the scepter of English King Edward the seventh this huge diamond has a value of about two billion dollars the largest emerald ever found was discovered in 2001 in a mine in Bahia Brazil it was in fact a cluster of crystals weighing 1.9 million carats or 380 kilograms experts evaluated the cost of this hefty block at around 400 million dollars its history is also quite surprising as it has survived several thefts and it escaped the floods during Hurricane Katrina in some miraculous way while being kept in a warehouse in New Orleans at the epicenter of the disaster at some point it was even exhibited at an auction on eBay the moon reflected in the water sinks to the seabed and penetrates into the open shells of shellfish and then curls up into a ball this story describes one of the most poetic legends about the origin of pearls in fact the formation of pearls is a protective reaction of the shellfish to any foreign body that gets inside this is the way it responds to small dirt particles and other specks falling into the shell the pallium of the shellfish produces the pearl by means of enveloping dirt and isolating them from the body of a shellfish simultaneously giving birth to the future pearl the biggest pearl was found in the hut of an ordinary philippine fisherman who picked it up from the ocean about ten years ago the treasure of irregular shape is 30 centimeters long about 60 wide and weighs a record 34 kilograms the cost of this find is unknown but if compared to the previous record-holder the lousy pearl that weighed 6.37 kilograms and cost 40 million dollars we can assume that the cost of a record pearl of thirty four kilograms can exceed 200 million dollars a record jadeite monolith of the highest quality was discovered at a mine in Burma in 2016 the weight of the block is almost 175 tons by this characteristic it is second only to the statue of Buddha carved from jadeite and decorated with gold which weighs 260 tons it's estimated cost is about 170 million dollars the export of this semi-precious stone is one of the main sources of income of the region it is as if we won the lottery with the whole country says a local newspaper Kevin Hiller from Australia hit the jackpot when he found a massive gold nugget in the ground weighing 27 kilograms with the help of an ordinary metal detector it happened in the eighties while he was travelling on the mainland with his family in his house on wheels with only a few hundred dollars in his pocket mr. Hiller decided to make a halt in the vicinity of one tiny town dreamer and optimist he went for a walk with his new metal detector imagine his surprise when instead of a rusty coin or a bottle cap he found a huge massive gold nugget the treasure was located only 10 centimeters from the surface of the dirt the stone received the name the hand of faith and was sold by Kevin Hiller for exactly 1 million dollars today the gold bar is on display in the Golden Nugget Casino corridor in Las Vegas and his famous throughout the world as the largest massive gold nugget found with the help of an ordinary metal detector in 1872 a large gold nugget was found in Australia which was later named whole sermons plate it is the largest gold nugget ever found in the country photos of this bar have survived throughout time they depict mr. Holterman whose company owned the gold mine who found the Nugget it is just a little smaller in size than its lucky owner the block measured 1.4 meters long and had a quartz plate in its base completely covered with gold and weighed a record 285 kilograms the weight of pure gold reached almost 100 kilograms unfortunately because of its immense value and desired a profit it was immediately melted and sold any gem needs cutting and what can you do with a huge block of glowing fluorite this precious mineral has more value than diamonds in China therefore when a huge nugget of bright green fluorite was found in the Inner Mongolia region of China it was decided that something really impressive must be done with it it took jewelers more than three years to give the stone a round shape with a diameter of 1.5 meters as a result it ended up being the largest part of fluoride in the world weighing six tons and was presented at the exhibition in Hainan it does look like a pearl and it also glows when heated the value of this fluorite pearl the largest of its kind in the world is estimated at one hundred and forty million dollars [Music] you

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Published: Fri Apr 20 2018