What is the name of the largest gem quality diamond in the world, at 3,106.75 carats (rough), discovered on June 26, 1905?
Excelsior Diamond Excelsior Diamond The Excelsior Diamond is a gem-quality diamond, and was the largest known diamond in the world from the time of its discovery in 1893 until 1905, when the larger Cullinan Diamond was found. It was found on June 30, 1893 at the Jagersfontein Mine in South Africa, south east of Kimberley whose fame as a diamond mining center always overshadowed that of Jagersfontein. It had a blue-white tint and weighed 971 old carats or 995.2 metric carats (or 194 g). The Excelsior rates as the third largest rough diamond of gem quality ever found. It was ultimately cut
Gem Diamonds government started the forced removal of the Bushmen from their lands. In 2006, the company announced that it had found a diamond of at the Letseng diamond mine in Lesotho, which became known as the Lesotho Promise. In January 2018, a larger stone was discovered at Letseng, measuring — the fifth-largest gem-quality diamond ever found. Named the Lesotho Legend, the gem sold in Antwerp, Belgium to Samir Gems on 12 March 2018 for $40 million. In March 2018, the company announced recovery of its seventh diamond over 100 carats at Letseng during the first quarter of 2018, a "top white