Kiros Diamond Specialty

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5 years ago

The Shirley Temple Blue Diamond failed to sell at auction in 2016, but now it’s found a new life.The actress’ father purchased the cushion-modified brilliant-cut fancy deep blue diamond, weighing 9.54 carats with VVS2 clarity, in 1940 to commemorate the 12-year-old’s latest film, “The Blue Bird" (Pic 1). She owned the diamond ring until her death in 2014. Her family put the diamond up for sale at Sotheby’s April 2016 jewelry auction in New York, where it was predicted to garner between $25 and $35 million, though it didn’t f... read more

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The Daffodil parade was on the 6th of April. So here are some of this years Daffodil Festival Princesses out making the rounds while wearing our custom made Daffodils pins from Kiros Diamond Specialty. We did 23 pins this year for the Festival's young ladies. You are looking good Princesses and thank you all for your community service. 

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Gem Diamonds has recovered a high-quality, 13.33-carat pink diamond in Lesotho. The type I diamond was unearthed earlier this month at its Letšeng mine, and is the first stone above 10.8 carats the company has reported this year. It is the largest pink diamond the miner has recovered since 2011, when it retrieved a 30.68-carat stone. In December it found a pink stone weighing 8.53 carats. “This is looking like an extremely high-quality diamond...so it will be interesting to see what price per carat it achieves at the next te... read more

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National Geographic just put out these photos of a piece of opal from the island of Java in Indonesia which encased and preserved a insect that may be at least four to seven million years old. We all know that a lot of insects have been found in amber. Which entombs them rapidly enough to preserve them in exquisite detail. But how would an opal made of silica and water solutions that have to concentrate underground over thousands or even millions of years possibly have preserved the insect in this way. That is the question, ... read more

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Natural diamonds can come in a rainbow of colors and are produced by mother earth. But natural colored diamonds are extremely rare. The ratio of colorless diamonds to colored diamonds is said to be 1 to 10,000. To be more specific, it means that a mere 0.0001% of the diamonds that are mined are natural colored diamonds. And some natural diamonds can obtain color at a much lower price by being irradiated with high-energy subatomic particles to produce their color in a lab. There are 4 types of irradiation process, Cyclotron, ... read more