{"id":45437,"date":"2013-10-25T20:01:35","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T16:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=45437"},"modified":"2013-10-25T20:01:35","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T16:01:35","slug":"the-40million-pink-sparkler-enormous-diamond-set-to-become-the-worlds-most-expensive-jewel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=45437","title":{"rendered":"The \u00a340million pink sparkler: Enormous diamond set to become the world&#8217;s most expensive jewel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Pink-Star.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45430\" alt=\"Pink Star\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Pink-Star.jpg\" width=\"306\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Pink-Star.jpg 306w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Pink-Star-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The diamond is dazzling and so is the price. This flawless 59.60-carat gem, known as the Pink Star, is expected to go for more than \u00a340million at auction next month.<\/p>\n<p>That will make the huge diamond, one of the world\u2019s rarest and with an extraordinary depth of colour, the most valuable jewel ever to be sold.<\/p>\n<p>Discovered in South Africa in 1999 by mining giant De Beers, the pink gem was polished and cut over two years.<\/p>\n<p>The oval-cut stone is more than twice the size of the Graff Pink diamond that was sold for a world record \u00a329million in 2010.<br \/>\nSotheby\u2019s, which will auction the Pink Star in Geneva, described it as \u2018exceptional\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The gem belongs to small group of diamonds \u2013 known as type 11a \u2013 that are renowned for their transparency and chemical purity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Pink-Star1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45432\" alt=\" \u057e\u0561\u0580\u0564\u0561\u0563\u0578\u0582\u0575\u0576 \u0561\u0564\u0561\u0574\u0561\u0576\u0564\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Pink-Star1.jpg\" width=\"306\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Pink-Star1.jpg 306w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Pink-Star1-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The diamond is dazzling and so is the price. This flawless 59.60-carat gem, known&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":45433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,137],"tags":[3154],"class_list":["post-45437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-pink-star","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}