Stunning Blue

Blue Diamond is a rare and most expensive one. It is naturally blue, range in color from pale sky blue to a vivid peacock blue with or without other color casts. The mineral Boron in the stone gives natural Blue Diamonds their color during the stone’s formation. . Most natural blue diamonds are a very light blue. The source and origin of most of the intensely-colored blue diamonds is the Cullinan and Premier diamond mines in South Africa. Other places where blue diamonds have been found include India, the Central African Republic, Brazil, Borneo and Guyana in South America - source of some diamonds of a uniquely remarkable turquoise to aquamarine blue in color.

Here are some of the Famous Blue Diamonds:

May 2009 - an internally flawless, 7.03 carat cushion-cut, fancy vivid blue diamond sold for $9.48 million dollars - a record-setting high price-per-carat ever at Sotheby's Geneva auction.

The Millennium Blue a 5.16 carat pear-shape, internally flawless, fancy vivid blue, sold for $6.4 million dollars at Sotheby's Hong Kong auction in April, 2010.

In October 2010, the largest known triangular fancy vivid blue diamond ever auctioned (10.95 carats), aka the Bulgari Blue, set yet another auction record of $15.7 million dollars, making it top gemstone sale of 2010.

This 30.06-carat blue diamond was cut by the William Goldberg Corporation. He named the stone after his wife, Lili. The stone's shape is a sort of tapered cushion and named as Bluelili Diamond.

The Heart of Eternity is a rarest one, belonging to the category of famous diamonds in the world. Heart of Eternity was discovered in the Premier Diamond mine located in South Africa.

 The Blue Magic is a 12.02 carat modified pear-shaped diamond of an exquisite fancy vivid (the highest color grade) blue color with a clarity of VVS-2.

Hope Diamond is 45.52 carat steel, it is blue to the naked eye because of trace amounts of boron within its crystal structure, but it exhibits red phosphorescence after exposure to ultraviolet light. It is one of the most famous diamonds in the world.

Terschenko diamond is a 42.92 pear shaped fancy blue believed to be of Indian origin. Originally owned by the Terschenko family (sugar barons in pre-communist Russia) it was smuggled out of the country just prior to the Russian revolution. It was purchased by Saudi Arabian diamond dealer Robert Mouawad for $4.5 million from auction at Christies.

The Eugenie Blue is a 30.82 carats heart-shaped fancy vivid or fancy deep blue diamond. It remains to this day at the Smithsonian museum, on display as part of the museum's diamond collections.