{"id":112390,"date":"2022-07-31T16:24:38","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T10:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=112390"},"modified":"2022-09-08T15:57:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T10:27:11","slug":"largest-pink-diamond-in-300-years-lulo-rose-found-in-angola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/largest-pink-diamond-in-300-years-lulo-rose-found-in-angola\/","title":{"rendered":"Largest pink diamond in 300 years \u201cLulo Rose\u201d found in Angola"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A rare pure&nbsp;pink diamond,&nbsp;believed to be the&nbsp;largest found in 300 years,&nbsp;has been unearthed in&nbsp;Angola,&nbsp;a country in&nbsp;Central Africa.&nbsp;The Lulo Rose is a&nbsp;type 2a diamond,&nbsp;meaning it has few or no impurities. It is the fifth largest diamond recovered from the Lulo mine \u2013 a joint venture between&nbsp;Australia\u2019s Lucapa Diamond Company and the Angolan government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dimensions of Lulo Rose:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is a&nbsp;170-carat&nbsp;pink diamond &amp; has been named \u2018The Lulo Rose\u2019. It weighs&nbsp;34 grams. Similar diamonds have been bought for tens of millions of dollars in the past, with one \u2013 known as Pink Star \u2013 selling at a Hong Kong auction for $71.2m (\u00a359m) in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rare pure&nbsp;pink diamond,&nbsp;believed to be the&nbsp;largest found in 300 years,&nbsp;has been unearthed in&nbsp;Angola,&nbsp;a country in&nbsp;Central Africa.&nbsp;The Lulo Rose is a&nbsp;type 2a diamond,&nbsp;meaning it has few or no impurities. It is the fifth largest diamond recovered from the Lulo mine \u2013 a joint venture between&nbsp;Australia\u2019s Lucapa Diamond Company and the Angolan government. Dimensions of Lulo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":112391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4611],"tags":[234,58],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-112390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-july-2022","tag-discovery-invention-current-affairs","tag-international-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112392,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112390\/revisions\/112392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112390"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=112390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}