Jonker diamond

Jonker diamond, white diamond tinged with blue that weighed 726 carats in rough form. It was named for the prospector Jacobus Jonker after the stone was found in 1934 on a farm near Pretoria, S.Af. After a year of study, it was cleaved by the New York cutter Lazare Kaplan into 13 stones ranging in weight from about 5 carats to an emerald-cut stone of about 143 carats. It was the first great diamond to be cut in the United States.