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Did you know that Red diamonds are among the rarest stones in the world? Because of this extreme rarity, red diamonds are very sought after by diamond collectors like me from all over the world. Gemstone collectors will fight hard to add a rare red diamonds in their collection – and so the prices of these stones have gone very high in the past few years. For the past 20 years or so, there were very few red diamonds that went on sale all over the world and all of these stone fetched very high prices. In fact, most of these red diamonds were sold at over $1 million dollars each.

Here are some interesting notes:
The Moussaieff Red Diamond is considered as one of the largest fancy red diamonds in world. This piece of precious stone was first discovered by a Brazilian farmer sometime in the middle of the 1990s and was first purchased by the William Goldberg Diamond Corporation. When it was first cut, this diamond was named as the Red Shield but when this piece of precocious stone was later own bought by Moussaieff Jewelers Ltd, the company gave named it the Moussaieff Red. (more…)