Record flawless blue topaz weighing 9381 carats will be put in the gallery of minerals US Natural History Museum from 19 October.
Faceted stone having 15 cm long and 10.5 cm wide and weighing about 2 kg, was treated to give it a bright blue color, said in the museum.
"This stone is a perfect example of how people create beautiful and coveted objects of natural mineral samples that we find around us and that we keep the collection in the museum," - said Mayk Ramsi (Mike Rumsey), senior curator of the museum's collection of minerals.
Stone called "The Island" (Ostro) will be put on permanent display in the name of Morris acute (Maurice Ostro), British entrepreneur and philanthropist. The original raw topaz was discovered 30 years ago by his father Max Sharp, a researcher in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
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Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF) recommended that a registered diamond companies to produce due diligence of their clients, if they are on a temporary or permanent basis in Iran and North Korea, according to the Antwerp World Diamond Center (AWDC).
According to FATF, these two countries represents a significant risk to the international financial system due to their lack of a comprehensive anti-money capital crime and combating the financing of terrorism.
In this regard, FATF calls for countermeasures against these countries. From diamond group of companies expects, in particular, the application of additional measures of preventive control in accordance with the conduct of investigations by Belgium in the fight against money laundering.
In addition, of FATF pointed diamond companies on specific risks in terms of clientele in a number of other countries: Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Guyana, Iraq, Laos, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Syria, Uganda, Vanuatu and Yemen.
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