I was just contemplating the beautiful rough pink diamond that I was so close to acquiring during my last trip into the southern Borneo diamond fields. One of the artisanal diamond miners uncovered a fantastic 1.3 carat rough pink diamond while I was in the area and it was offered to me to buy. The stone was a deep pink colour and was oval shaped with a course outer skin. With careful cutting the weight could have been maintained to around 0.8 carat and produced a spectacular oval shaped pink diamond.
We agreed on a purchase price of US$20,000 however I needed to dash across to Jakarta to get the cash. I jumped on a plane for the 45 minute flight to Jakarta and raced to the bank to get the money however on my way back to the airport I was informed the stone had been sold to someone else. As you can imagine I was very disappointed!
The local artisanal diamond miners are uncovering rare pink and blue diamond's every once in a while so I will get another chance before too long to add a nice pink to our diamond inventory.
