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Wednesday, 27 November 2013

10 Fun Pink Diamonds Facts To Share With Your Friends

By Garen Tovah


Ever seen a Pink diamond? Did it leave you mesmerized? In this post, we've listed down 10 interesting facts about Pink Diamond that you would love to know

1. The Pink Panther Diamond is a famous diamond, which actually never existed! Yes, it true! Like Santa Claus, Pink panther was just a fictional diamond with a distinctive flaw, resembling the stripes of a panther.

2. The total weight of 1 carat pink diamond is only 0.2 gms, which is actually equivalent to one matchstick.

3. The overall price of the different quality of pink diamonds depends upon the strong saturation of colour and clarity of the stone (VS).

4. Naturally pink diamonds are very rare and 98% of the jewellers in the world have never seen it in their life.

5. In Australia, the diamonds produced in Rio Tinto's Argyle mine are of greater value. A collection of 40-60 stones a year are put for tender.

6. It takes more than a year to collect 50-60 pink diamonds out of the millions of stones produced by Argyle in one year.

7. The colour pink obtained by diamonds has been created due to structural pressures exerted on carbon molecules during its formation. This whole process would have taken over 3 billion years.

8. The price of pink diamonds appreciates around 20% a year. Thus, it should be anticipated that the prices of this variety of stones may have no limit once the Argyle mine is closed.

9. Every Argyle pink diamond's clarity and colour is 100% natural!

10. Nokia Supreme handset is notably the most expensive mobile handsets in the world, studded with1225 sparkling pink diamonds set on a platinum body.




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