Stunning Blue Diamond Could Shatter Records With $50 Million Price Tag

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00:30This is the most famous blue diamond that's coming up for sale for the first time ever

00:48in over a hundred years at Christie's in Geneva on May 14th.

00:52Blue diamonds have boron in them. They are electro conductive diamonds.

01:10You can run electricity through a blue diamond, but it's the boron that turns it blue.

01:15And the more boron the stone has, the darker it gets.

01:19This is a vivid blue diamond, which is the classification that the Gem Institute of America

01:25gives to the darkest blue diamonds that are ever created in nature.

01:49So this is as fine as it gets, as large as it gets, the best mine that you can get it from,

02:03and the best provenance from India.

02:05Goldconda was a very special mine in that it was the first mine known to have produced diamonds.

02:19This was before South Africa. This was before Russia. This was before Indonesia. This was before Argyle.

02:39And what's special is that most of the mines that are in production today create diamonds of a certain color.

02:47Some will create just white diamonds. Some will create just pink diamonds.

02:51Some create blue diamonds.

02:53Goldconda created diamonds of every color under the sun.

02:57Go ahead and move out there.

02:59Go ahead and move up there.

03:07First, najleedle movements.

03:09so for someone looking for the most special and rare blue diamond in the world this is it the

03:37Golconda blue