The historic legal agreement that arranged for the cutting of the world's largest diamond ... gem-quality rough diamond that helped create Queen Elizabeth’s Crown Jewels has been unearthed ...

The crown jewel of Botswana is the Karowe Mine ... With that said, the largest diamond ever discovered (the Cullinan Diamond-a.k.a the “Star of Africa”-which was unearthed in South Africa ...

aka the Cullinan diamonds, are split between the crown jewels and the late Queen Elizabeth II’s personal collection. But Cullinan I—the largest and flashiest, which is worth a cool $400 ...

At 3,106 carats, it was later cut into gems, some of which were used for the British Crown Jewels. Botswana is the second biggest producer of natural diamonds in the world, behind Russia.

"Crown jewels" is really just a catchall name ... with 2,868 diamonds — including a piece of the Cullinan, the largest rough diamond ever found. The crown was apparently remade in 1937 because ...

Today, the Kohinoor is the biggest jewel on the Queen Mother's Crown, and remains one of the world's largest cut diamonds. Danielle Kinsey, an assistant professor of history at Carleton University ...

The largest known pink diamond is the Daria-i-Noor (Sea of Light) diamond, which was mined in India, is part of the Iranian Crown Jewels collection of the Central Bank of Iran.

The Koh-i-Noor. 105-carats, oval-shaped, and arguably, the world’s most famous diamond. Today, it’s set among 2,800 other stones in the Crown Jewels, but it hasn’t always been there.