Eleven carats on display at Royal Alberta Museum
Posted Mar 8, 2015 9:03 pm.
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The Royal Alberta Museum is all a buzz with its latest acquisition that’s guaranteed to sparkle.
It’s a large diamond recovered from a mine in the Northwest Territories, a rare find because the idea of Canadian diamonds is still relatively new.
It has a near perfect octahedral shape and intricate textures on the crystal faces.
Assistant Curator of Geology, Melissa Bowerman says the response to the rock has been remarkable.
“There’s this allure that diamonds have and they’re actually such a common gemstone people have and people are very interested”.
She adds it’s the perfect fit to their display.
“We do have a fairly good gem collection here. We have a good representation of a lot of the major gem family and something that was missing, is that we didn’t have a large rough diamond.”
They’ve proposed to make it a key object in their gemstone display at the new museum.
