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The newly unearthed 11,000-carat (4.8 pound) ruby, found near Mogok in the heartland of the gem-mining area, as displayed in the president's office in Naypyitaw, the capital of Myanmar. Photo by Myanmar Radio And Television/AFP.
The Ocean Dream, a 5.5-carat triangular-cut diamond billed as the largest fancy vivid blue-green diamond known to exist sold for more than 13.5 million Swiss francs ($17.3 million) on Wednesday, Christie’s said, calling it a record price for a stone of its kind sold at auction. The “Ocean Dream,” the standout offer at the auction house’s Geneva sale of jewelry, was found in Central Africa in the 1990s. The price easily topped the presale estimate to fetch 7-10 million francs (around $9-13 million).
Mike Cleary, a prospecting influencer who also works for Tesla, shows off a couple of eye-popping nuggets in Foresthill, California. Photograph by Deb Leal for The New Yorker.
A police officer patrolling in Quetta, the capital of the Balochistan Province of Pakistan, in February. Militants stormed the city on January 31 during a coordinated assault across the region that killed at least 58 people. Photo credit: Asim Hafeez.
