The World's Largest brilliant Was Found

At last, the largest solitaire in the world had found a worthy contender. Under first forecasts of experts the weight of the new diamond-champion is one 1.5 kg.

Before now the largest solitaire in the world was the Cullinan diamond. This solitaire was found in the British province Transvaal (nowadays the Republic of South Africa) in 1905. The weight of the ex-champion Cullinan is 3106 carat (621.2 gr.). The solitaire was named for Sir Thomas Cullinan, who had discovered the Premier in Transvaal three years earlier. The solitaire amazes not only by its size but also its cleanliness, absence of mineral inclusions, cracks, and bubbles.

The Cullinan solitaire was presented to the reigning British monarch, King Edward Vii, in 1907. It's moving that solitaire represents a splinter (about 1/3 part) of larger diamond, but it haven't found till now.

The World's Largest brilliant Was Found

The solitaire was cut into 9 large stones and about 100 smaller ones by I.J. Asscher and company of Amsterdam. The Cullinan solitaire decorates the brow of the Imperial State Crown of Great Britain about one hundred years.

Nowadays, the 7000-carat solitaire (1.5 kg) was found in the same country. Under armed guard the new solitaire will be delivered in Johannesburg, the capital of the Republic of South Africa, where solitaire will be determined its exact weight and the size with a help of special technical equipment.

What company possesses this precious find? It is not yet announced. However, while all last century the leadership in world yield of diamonds belonged to giant De Beers who supervised about 65 % of all solitaire shop till now.

Today the Republic of South Africa takes fifth place in extraction of rough diamonds in the world, giving place only to Australia, Botswana, Russia and Congo.

Russia also does not giving in a solitaire race. So, the diamond-mining company Alrosa has a quarter of world's solitaire mining.

In the starting of August a big deposit of rough diamonds was discovered in Yakutia. Russia's solitaire giant Alrosa has discovered a big deposit of rough diamonds in Yakutia. The worth of its reserves is estimated at .5 billion. The deposit of such extent was last discovered in Yakutia ten years ago.

The new Verkhne-Munskoe deposit unites three kimberlite pipes located 130 kilometers from Udachninsky Mining and Processing Plant of Alrosa. The deposit is forecasted to last for 25 years, compliance from 1.2 million tons to 2 million tons of stones.

In terms of geological survey, Alrosa has outmatched the best indicators of previous Soviet Union, the company announced in the news release of April 2007. Nowadays, for instance, Alrosa is setting up the 4th exploration expedition in the northern part of Yakutia's solitaire province.

It is mentioned that Russia had became the first country in volume of export of rough diamonds in 2005. To tell the truth, the Russian Federation had taken the top position only by physical volume of the diamonds taken out abroad. The leader in the finance of export had come to be the Botswana (25 % of world's solitaire export). It is supposed that in 2007 Russia will growth considerably in turnover because of the occasion of new solitaire fields.

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