Esperanza Diamond is the most valuable diamond ever discovered in the USA.
Murfreesboro park area, Arkansas is the only place in the world where you can mine your own diamonds. What’s more, you excavate them inside their original volcanic source. You can visit the park and search from a 37-acre field. It is an eroded surface of a volcanic crater. You can unearth a variety of rocks, minerals, and gemstones. Whatever you find is yours to keep.
Esperanza Diamond
And this is where Brooke Oskarson uncovered the most valuable diamond ever discovered in the USA on June 26, 2015. She found the diamond in a section of a park called the “pig pen.”
The diamond boasts an awesomely white color and a unique icicle shape. Weighing 8.52 carats and measuring 18mm in length, it is the fifth-largest diamond ever found in the park.
Brooke named the gemstone Esperanza after her favorite niece. She contacted Neil Beaty, a top gemologist associated with the American Gem Society (AGS).
Analysis at the AGS lab established it to be a type IIa, internally flawless diamond with D color grade. These attributes make Esperanza the most valuable diamond ever discovered in the USA.
Mike Botha, a master cutter at Embee Diamond Technologies, designed a brand new cut and facet pattern called the “triolette,”, especially for this unique stone. It’s three-fold symmetry of 7 x 7 facets. 147 facets in total with two culets, three keels, and no table. The cut is aimed at preserving as much weight as possible. At the same time, the intention was to show off color & transparency from every direction.
Furthermore, Mike did the cutting and polishing in a live event held in Little Rock, Arkansas in collaboration with Stanley Jewelers Gemologist.
AGS members Ian Douglas and Byard Brogan, designed and manufactured the mounting for this diamond respectively. Douglas visualized a design that would highlight the shape of the diamond. The layout would also have to emphasize that every direction was an optimum angle for viewing the diamond.
The design so conceptualized, set the diamond into a pendant. The diamond is only secured at each pointed end in such a manner that it appears suspended in mid-air. Fluid shapes and lines of platinum flow out from these ends to form the base of the pendant. Smaller Canadian diamonds are set into platinum.
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