The largest Pink Diamond ever found in the history of the world was discovered in the Borneo diamond fields. Right in the same location as our Diamond Expeditions the huge Pink Diamond, given the name "Trisakti Diamond", was discovered on 26th August 1965 in an alluvial diamond deposit in the Cempaka district of Martapura.
The rough Pink Diamond weighed 166.75 carats and is to this day still the largest Pink Diamond ever discovered. Typically though the artisan miner that discovered the diamond was never paid the true value for the diamond. The Indonesian government took ownership of the Diamond and arranged for it to be sent to Amsterdam to be cut by the famous diamond cutter Jospeh Asscher.
The diamond was cleaved into several parts and the largest part was fashioned into a 50.53 carat emerald cut Pink Diamond. After the diamond was cut it was returned to the Indonesian government where it was locked away from public view and has never been seen again since.
The artisan miner that discover the Diamond, Haji Shukri, made several trips to Jakarta in an attempt to find out what happened to the Diamond and to get payment for it but he never received anything further from the government. Hence the need for Fair Trade to prevent this all too common occurrence from repeating!
