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By Christine Ng via Good Morning America--- When Oklahoma teenager Tana Clymer heard about a young boy who'd found a 5-carat diamond at Arkansas' Crater of Diamonds State Park earlier this year, she wanted to try her luck. Tana, 14, and her parents traveled to the park, an eroded surface of an ...

Rapaport... Oct 22, 2013 4:11 PM By Jeff MillerBonhams auction of fine jewelry in New York achieved nearly $6.3 million and was 85 percent sold by lot. The top lot sold for $461,000 and featured a 5.85-carat, oval-cut Kashmir sapphire and diamond ring. The auction house stated that the ring ...

AB Newswire - MIAMI – Oct. 14, 2013 – Designed exclusively for multi-award-winning talk show host and philanthropist, Oprah Winfrey, the Argyle Pink Diamond Necklace and Earrings have recently been added to the lot of auctioned rare colored diamonds and collectibles for the highly ...

JNA 07/10/2013- Sotheby’s Geneva will auction the “Walska Briolette Diamond” brooch featuring a 96.62-carat fancy vivid yellow diamond during The Magnificent Jewels sale on November 13, the auction house said in a press release recently. The brooch was created by Van Cleef &...

IDEX Online News, October 16, '13, 12:09 Albert Robinson – An 8.77-carat, VVS1, rectangularR08;cut fancy intense pink diamond ring bought for $6,325,000 was the top-selling item at Christie's New York sale of magnificent jewels.The sale, 75 percent sold by lot, generated $46,675,125...

Sydney (AFP) October 14, 2013 12:06 AM - The annual sale of Rio Tinto's rare pink-hued diamonds attracted unprecedented interest with at least two of the stones fetching record prices of over $2 million, the mining giant said Monday. The 2013 Argyle Pink Diamonds Tender of 64 red, ...

RAPAPORT... Oct 10, 2013 8:25 AM by Deena Taylor Christie's Geneva will present ''The Orange,'' a rare pear-shaped,14.82-carat, VS1, type IIa, vivid orange diamond at its magnificent jewels sale on November 12. The diamond has a presale estimate of $17 million to $20 million. This diamond is ...

REUTERS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2013, 11:32 AMA young girl in the Democratic Republic of Congo found the egg-sized yellow diamond in a pile of mining rubble. For someone with $55 million to spare on an egg-sized diamond, the world's most expensive necklace is on sale this month at a ...

By Sotheby's 07 October 2013-- A Spectacular Oval Diamond of Supreme Importance, an unmounted oval brilliant-cut diamond weighing 118.28 carats. It set the record for the highest price ever paid for a white diamond at Sotheby's Magnificent Jewels and Jadeite sale in Hong Kong on Monday 7 October...