A gigantic diamond has been found recently in Angola and not just that, it’s a pink diamond. This precious gem is 170 carats and is thought to be the biggest found diamond in the last 300 years as it weighs in at 34 grams.
This diamond is named the Lulo Rose after the mine it was found in.
Pink diamonds are incredibly rare, and jewelry expert Joana Hardy thinks that private buyers will likely be queuing up in an attempt to own this precious gem. Although she says that it will be impossible to guess how much it’ll cost.
Some of you might be wondering how a diamond like this forms.
Diamonds are rare minerals made out of carbon formed in the Earth’s upper mantel, around 100 miles below the surface.
Carbon deposits are then exposed to an extreme amount of heat and pressure. This process can take days, months, and even millions of years to form!
After, all of these diamonds come to the surface through volcanic eruptions.
This process doesn’t always happen. In present days scientists have the technology to make diamonds in laboratories, which some people say is an environmentally way of getting diamonds.
So how did the Lulo Rose get it’s color?
Some diamonds get their color from chemical elements during the formation process.
For example, some blue diamonds get their color from the element Boron, and yellow ones get them from nitrogen. However, pink diamonds scientists have not been certain on how they get their beautiful and unique color.
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This diamond is named the Lulo Rose after the mine it was found in.
Pink diamonds are incredibly rare, and jewelry expert Joana Hardy thinks that private buyers will likely be queuing up in an attempt to own this precious gem. Although she says that it will be impossible to guess how much it’ll cost.
Some of you might be wondering how a diamond like this forms.
Diamonds are rare minerals made out of carbon formed in the Earth’s upper mantel, around 100 miles below the surface.
Carbon deposits are then exposed to an extreme amount of heat and pressure. This process can take days, months, and even millions of years to form!
After, all of these diamonds come to the surface through volcanic eruptions.
This process doesn’t always happen. In present days scientists have the technology to make diamonds in laboratories, which some people say is an environmentally way of getting diamonds.
So how did the Lulo Rose get it’s color?
Some diamonds get their color from chemical elements during the formation process.
For example, some blue diamonds get their color from the element Boron, and yellow ones get them from nitrogen. However, pink diamonds scientists have not been certain on how they get their beautiful and unique color.
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