According to Wikipedia: "The Cullinan diamond was found by Frederick Wells, surface manager of the Premier Diamond Mining Company in Cullinan, on January 26, 1905."
The biggest carat in a cut diamond is 20 carats. The largest diamond ever found was 530 carats.
The biggest diamond found to date -- 3,000+ carats -- is named Cullinan, named after Sir Thomas Cullinan, the owner of the Premier Mine, where the stone was found.
The biggest diamond in the world is the Cullinan diamond, which was found in South Africa in 1905. It is the largest gem-quality rough diamond ever discovered, weighing about 3,106 carats.
Diamonds have been part of human history for about 6,000 years, before humans began keeping written records of alluvial diamonds. Identifying the biggest alluvial diamond ever found, then, is not possible. Probably, the first diamond found and admired was an alluvial diamond. You can read more, below.
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The biggest diamond ring ever made is called The Spirit of de Grisogono. It weighs 312.24 carats, or 62.45 g. It is also a black diamond and is the largest black diamond ever found.
The largest diamond found to date is the Cullinan, which as a raw stone, weighed over 3,000 carats.
The world's biggest diamond is the Cullinan diamond, unearthed in South Africa in 1905. The rough diamond weighed a staggering 3,106 carats (621 grams), making it the largest gem-quality diamond ever found.
Mother Nature made the world's biggest diamond.
In South Africa, in a town called Cullinan, in 1906. The stone remains today as the heaviest -- by carat weight, in excess of 3,000 carats -- raw diamond found.
The largest carat diamond ever is the Cullinan Diamond. This diamond weights in at 3106.75 carats which is around 1.37 pounds. The biggest diamond ring however, is 150 carats.
Some of the largest diamonds have been found in South Africa, particularly in the Premier Mine (now Cullinan Mine). Other notable diamond-producing countries include Botswana, Russia, and Canada. The "Cullinan Diamond," one of the largest gem-quality diamonds ever discovered, was found in South Africa in 1905.