Sight – delighting turquoise to green deep meditative colour - that’s’s how one can describe the magic of this stone and such a colori not found in any other gemstone in the world. The exclusiveness of this legendary find makes these rare gemstones real treasures. According to Gemstone.org, Paraiba – the word has a particular fascination for the connoisseur, for it is the name of a gemstone with blue to green tones of extraordinary vividness. It could be called newcomer gem, it found us only in 1980’s. First discovered in the 1980s by Heitor Dimas Barbosa - who spent years digging in the hills of the Brazilian state of Paraiba on a hunch that something special was hidden there - he must have known he had hit the jackpot when he set eyes on his first, neon-bright Paraiba tourmaline. Story tells that . Finally, in the autumn of 1989, a handful of the finest tourmaline crystals were brought up into the daylight from one of the many galleries - in colours o
THE 7 MOST EXPENSIVE JEWELS SOLD AT THE AUCTIONS 1) The Pink Star The Pink Star diamond, which fetched the highest price ever for a jewel offered at auction, is displayed at Sotheby's in Hong Kong on March 29. Vincent Yu/AP Ac cording to BBC, the biding took only five minutes. A huge, internally flawless, 59.60-carat diamond called the "Pink Star" went for a whopping $71.2 million at auction in Hong Kong — the highest price ever for a jewel. The oval gem was purchased at Sotheby's by Hong Kong-based jewelry company Chow Tai Fook in a bid placed over the phone by the chairman, who renamed the jewel "CTF PINK STAR" in honor of his late father. "Not only was the price more than double the previous record for a fancy vivid pink diamond, but it was also a new record for any work ever sold at auction in Asia," Sotheby's said in a statement. 2) Oppenheimer Bleu Diamond