{"id":751,"date":"2009-11-23T13:13:48","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T19:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/?p=751"},"modified":"2009-11-23T13:13:48","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T19:13:48","slug":"jewelry-news-huge-diamond-hailed-as-record-breaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/jewelry-news-huge-diamond-hailed-as-record-breaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewelry news &#8211; Huge diamond hailed as record breaker."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rock-music-blog-online.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2008\/09\/24\/big_diamond_2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" title=\"Big_diamond_2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wedding-rings-novell.com\/images\/2008\/09\/24\/big_diamond_2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Big_diamond_2\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2008\/WORLD\/africa\/09\/22\/diamond.lesotho.gem\/?imw=Y&amp;iref=mpstoryemail\">From CNN.com<\/a>:\u00a0 \u00a0<br \/>\nA diamond unearthed in the southern African nation of Lesotho could yield one of the largest and highest quality round polished diamonds, according to a statement from company that found it. A mining company unearthed this 478-carat diamond in the southern African nation of Lesotho.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">Experts in Antwerp, Belgium who analyzed the 478-carat stone determined it to be of the highest color grading available for a white diamond, said a statement from Gem Diamonds Ltd., the company that found the stone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">&#8220;What makes it more remarkable is the color and quality of this stone,&#8221; said diamond consultant Neil Buxton.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a D color, which is the highest possible graded color you can get, and we believe there is a chance &#8212; a very good chance &#8212; of getting a 100-carat plus&#8221; round stone with the highest color and clarity rankings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">Read more of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2008\/WORLD\/africa\/09\/22\/diamond.lesotho.gem\/?imw=Y&amp;iref=mpstoryemail\">Huge diamond hailed as record breaker<\/a>&#8220;&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Large diamond found and is believed to be a 100 carat stone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[53],"tags":[57,296],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754,"href":"https:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions\/754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}