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Sergio (carbonado)

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Sergio (Portuguese Carbonado do Sergio) is the largest carbonado and the largest rough diamond ever found. It weighed 3,167 carats and was found in the State of Bahia in Brazil in 1895. Like other carbonados it is believed to be of meteoritic origin.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Carbonado - A possible relic from Uranus or Neptune". meteoritestudies.com. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
  2. ^ 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica Article "Carbonado" on Wikisource
  3. ^ Giant Black Diamonds Of Mysterious Origin May Hail From Space
  4. ^ Diamonds in the Sky
  5. ^ Ralf Tappert, Michelle C. Tappert "Diamonds in Nature: A Guide to Rough Diamonds", p. 41
  6. ^ Mark A. Prelas, Galina Popovici, Louis K. Bigelow (eds.) "Handbook of Industrial Diamonds and Diamond Films", p. 484
  7. ^ G.J.H. McCall, "The carbonado diamond conundrum"
  8. ^ R.A. Ketcham, "New textural evidence on the origin of carbonado diamond: An example of 3-D petrography using X-ray computed tomography" Geosphere, GES00908.1, first published on August 14, 2013
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