Diamonds are indeed a woman’s best friend, as they are rightly called and known to be. The word is derived from Greek language, and it basically means ‘I overpower’, ‘untamed’, ‘unalterable’ or ‘unbreakable’. Diamonds literally are unbreakable, thus standing true to its name. Diamonds are considered to be the most expensive gem in the world. Huge number of diamond mines have been set up to excavate and extract almost every kind and type of diamond, as diamonds are available in all shapes and sizes, some discovered and some probably not. Diamond is formed as an allotrope of carbon, due to which the gem is extremely strong and can’t be broken or cut easily. Only a diamond could cut a diamond. The carbon structure of a diamond is very strong and tight, due to which it is difficult to tame and mould them, thus making them expensive in price, but the most precious commodity in the world. Here is a list of the top 10 largest diamonds which have been found till date.

10. The Jonker – 726 carats

The Jonker was first found in South Africa by a man named Johannes Jacobus Jonker, and that’s how this large gem acquired its name. The Jonker was then eventually broken into 13 smaller stones. One of them still weighed about a remarkable 143 carats, and was named the Jonker I. As diamonds are priced and valued depending on their size, color and properties, the Jonker I stands to hold a value of almost $3 million.

9. The Vargas – 726.6 carats

The next by a rise in small decimal points comes the Vargas, discovered in Brazil in the year 1938. This diamond is named after the then President of Brazil, Getulio Dornelles Vargas, and after which it was sent to Amsterdam to be cut down into 26 smaller stones. This process of cutting them down was done by an Amer9ican jeweler, Harry Winston. The largest Vargas piece weight about 44.17 carat, which was further cut by Winston himself.

8. The Golden Jubilee – 755 carats

The Golden Jubilee diamond was first found in South Africa in 1985. This diamond, given a papal blessing by Pope John Paul II, was cut and polished, and resulted in giving birth to the largest polished diamond in the world, weighing 545.67 carats. This diamond, being rough in properties, had taken time and effort to be cut down, but the largest piece which could be cut down turned out to be enormous in weighed. This diamond is currently owned by the Royal Family of Thailand. Due to it being colorless, the value of this gem is just about more than $4 million, so you can as well imagine the price if it was colorless. The value would have been triple.

7. The Woyie River – 770 carats

The Woyie River extracts its name from the river it was found in. it hails from Sierra Leone, the largest diamond producing country in Africa. The diamond was cut down into 30 smaller pieces, and resulted in small little colorless, clear and flawless gemstones. Sierra Leone is famous for blood diamonds. Blood diamonds were mined in areas affected by war, and these diamonds were sold to finance war and military expenses.;

6. Millenium Star – 777 carats

The Millenium Star is known to be one huge rough diamond, found in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1990. This diamond gave out the second largest cut and polished gem, which weighed 203.04 carats. This diamond being colorless and flawless consists of extremely good and perfect diamond properties, due to which it is valued at a price more than $160 million. This diamond is owned by a diamond industry controlling company called the De Beers group.

5. Incomparable diamond – 890 carats

True to its name, this diamond was first found in Congo by a young girl in 1989, in a heap of stones and rubble. This diamond finally reached the city of Antwerp, 0one of the largest diamond districts of the world. It took years for people to cut this rough diamond into smaller stones, and the largest cut stone they produced weighed about 407.48 carats. It was yellow in color and cut in a strange triangular shape, thus making it look unique.

4. Star of Sierra Leone – 969 carats

A large diamond weighing almost 969 carats was found in 1972, and was purchased by the American jeweler, Harry Winston. Winston then cut this rough diamond into 17 small stones. Many of these small stones have been used in the making of an exquisite piece of jewelery, which later came to be known as the Star of Sierra Leone brooch.

3. Excelsior diamond – 995.20 carats

The Excelsior diamond was found in South Africa in the year 1893. This diamond was further cut into making smaller gemstones, the largest weighing only about 69.68 carats, though experts believe that larger and bigger gemstones could have been produced from this enormously large diamond.

2. Cullinan diamond – 3106.75 carats

The Cullinan diamond is clearly one of the most famous and high valued diamonds. It was found by a mining superintendent in South Africa in 1905, in a mine owned by Sir Thomas Cullinan, after which it was gifted to Kind Edward VII and sent to Amsterdam to be cut into smaller pieces. More than 100 gemstones were formed out of it, the largest of them being the Star of Africa (Cullinan I) weigh9ing 530.2 carats. This stone was then placed in the Crown Jewels, used in the Sceptre with the Cross. The value of this diamond is almost $2 billion.

1. Sergio – 3167 carats

This diamond is clearly the largest and the rarest diamond in the world, traces and origins of which even scientists have not been able to discover. The Sergio is a black diamond found in Brazil in the year 1893. The origin of such black diamonds is untraceable, as scientists argue that black diamonds have actually come from outer space due to a meteor crash, reaching the earth as fragments.