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The Eureka Diamond was the first diamond discovered in South Africa. It originally weighed 21.25 carats (4.250 g), and was later cut to a 10.73-carat (2.146 g) cushion-shaped brilliant, which is currently on display at the Mine Museum in Kimberley.
The Eureka Diamond is not very impressive by gemstone standards yet, it has earned its place among the greatest diamonds in history. A mere 21 carats in its rough form, a brownish-yellow color; it is unlike other legendary diamonds that have inspired adoration almost instantly.
The Eureka Diamond was the first diamond discovered in South Africa. It originally weighed 21.25 carats (4.250 g), and was later cut to a 10.73-carat (2.146 g) cushion-shaped brilliant, which is currently on display at the Mine Museum in Kimberley.
The Eureka Diamond was the first diamond discovered in South Africa. It weighed 21.25 carats (4.250 g), and was found near Hopetown on the Orange River in 18...
2 Ιουν 2021 · This story begins in 1866, with the discovery of a diamond happening purely by chance. One day, fifteen-year-old Erasmus Jacobs, who was living on a farm with his family on the southern bank of the Orange River, was searching for a stick to clear a drain.
16 Μαρ 2011 · 13 October 1867 marks the first recorded discovery of diamonds in the colonial period of South Africa, with the very first becoming known as the Eureka diamond. By 1871, more diamonds were found in the vicinity of the present-day Kimberley, leading to the establishment of De Beers Consolidated Mines under the leadership of Cecil John Rhodes.
10 Ιουν 2016 · In 1867 Dr. William Guybon Atherstone, the Cape Colony’s premier mineralogist, declared the Eureka to be the first diamond discovered in South Africa. Atherstone ascribed the diamond – which weighed either 21.25 carats or 24 carats in its rough form – a value of £800.
