Blue Diamonds
13/05/2009
A very rare blue diamond has sold for a record braking £6.2 million (10.5 million Swiss francs) at auction in Geneva. It weighs 7.03 carats and set in platinum, the anonymous phone bidder has not yet named the diamond. The diamond gets its blue colour from the chemical ‘boron’ being present during formation. The diamond was found in the Cullinan mine in South Africa last year, and its clarity was graded as flawless.
Auctioneer David Bennett said “It is a new world record for a blue diamond”
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