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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.