The Hope Diamond is a large 45.52 carat, deep blue diamond, currently housed in the Smithsonian Natural History Museum.
The diamond is legendary for the curse it supposedly puts on whoever possesses it. The Hope Diamond appears to be a brilliant blue to the naked eye because of trace amounts of boron within the diamond. The Hope Diamond exhibits red fluorescence under ultraviolet light and is classified as a Type IIb diamond.
The Hope Diamond’s history can be easily traced to a blue diamond named the Tavernier Blue, which was originally mined from the Kollur mine in Golconda, India, and was a crudely cut triangle shape of 115 carats 22.44 g. French merchant-traveler Jean-Baptiste Tavernier purchased it sometime in 1660 or 1661.
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