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HPJ IT TAKES FIVE: EXTREMELY RARE 2.89 CT VVS SET (5) OF SIBERIAN CHROME DIOPSIDES. R23,000.00
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HPJ IT TAKES FIVE: 2.89 DIOPSIDES
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ULTRA RARE 2.89 CARAT VVS SUITE OF SIBERIAN CHROME DIOPSIDES - FIVE GEMS
‘THE RUSSIAN EMERALD’
PROVENANCE: EARTH MINED AT INAGLI, SAKHA STATE (YAKUTIA), EASTERN SIBERIA, RUSSIA
CARAT WEIGHT: 2.89 CARATS (COMBINED)
CLARITY: VVS (RARE FOR CHROME DIOPSIDES)
DIMENSIONS: 5.05 to 4.85mm
COLOUR: INTENSE CHROME GREEN
CUT: TRILLION CUT
ORIGIN: INAGLI, SAKHA (YAKUTIA, EASTERN SIBERIA, RUSSIA
TREATMENTS: NONE
It is exceptionally rare to find a suite of Chrome Diopsides with such good clarity. They also have unusually vivid neon green flashes, which are extremely beautiful.
Also known as the 'Russian Emerald', it is a gemstone of great beauty, and rarity. First set of five that I have seen !
In Siberia, it is too cold to mine during the winter, making an extra task of keeping production levels even throughout the year. On the MOHS scale of hardness, it is rated a 6-6.5, and is suitable for jewellery.
It has two planes, so you have to be extra careful when you facet it. This is also why there is approximately 90% loss on the rough. So to cut 10 carats of polished Chrome Diopside will require 100 carats of the rough!!
Yakutia, officially the Sakha Republic of the Russian Federation, is a land of extremes. To begin with, it is by far the world’s largest ‘stateoid’, or political unit below the level of a sovereign state, covering 3,103,200 square kilometers (1,198,000 square miles), as opposed to second-place Western Australia’s 2,527,621 square kilometers (975,919 square miles). More than twice the size of Alaska, Yakutia would be the world’s eighth largest country by area if it were independent.
The white area is Yakutia.
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