南非發現122克拉最貴藍鑽 價值6億人民幣

Petra Diamonds announced its discovery of what may very well be the largest blue diamond to ever be unearthed at the Cullinan mine in South Africa.

佩特拉鑽石公司近日宣佈，他們在南非庫利南鑽石礦發現了一顆很有可能是迄今爲止最大的藍鑽石。

It is the size of a strawberry and weighs a bit less than three pound coins.

它和一顆草莓差不多大，比3枚一英鎊硬幣略輕。

But if you had this rare blue beauty in your pocket you would be carrying around a diamond that could be worth more than £60million.

要是你能將這顆藍色尤物裝進自己的口袋，那你等於隨身帶了一顆價值超過6千萬英鎊（約爲6.3億人民幣）的鑽石。

Anyone who buys it, however, will be hoping for better luck than the owners of the famous deep blue Hope Diamond. It supposedly puts a curse on those who possess it, as the guillotined Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette discovered.

這顆鑽石的買家得祈禱自己擁有比著名的“希望藍鑽”的擁有者更好的運氣。“希望藍鑽”被認爲會爲擁有者帶來厄運，比如被送上斷頭臺的路易十六夫婦。

Blue diamonds get their colour from small amounts of the chemical element boron trapped in their crystal structure. The more ‘blue’ it is, the greater the value. They are the rarest diamonds after red, which are almost never found.

藍鑽石的晶體結構中含有的化學元素硼是藍色的由來。藍色越深，鑽石的價值越高。藍鑽石是第二稀有的鑽石，僅次於極難被發現的紅鑽石。

The Cullinan mine is recognised as the most important diamond mine in the world. It is famous for producing the world’s largest white diamond, the 3,106-carat Cullinan Diamond, which was found in 1905.

庫利南鑽石礦被認爲是世界上最重要的鑽石礦。它因1905年發現的世界最大的白鑽石——3106克拉的庫利南鑽石而聲名遠播。