{"id":377,"date":"2021-08-05T00:48:38","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T05:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elperiodico.mx\/?p=377"},"modified":"2021-08-10T16:12:57","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T21:12:57","slug":"perfora-pozo-y-encuentra-un-zafiro-de-1000-millones-de-dolares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elperiodico.mx\/?p=377","title":{"rendered":"Perfora pozo y encuentra un zafiro de 1,000 millones de d\u00f3lares"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Autoridades de Sri Lanka confirmaron <strong>el descubrimiento del zafiro m\u00e1s grande\u00a0jam\u00e1s visto en el mundo<\/strong>; el hallazgo ocurri\u00f3 hace ocho meses, pero se hab\u00eda mantenido en secreto desde entonces. <strong>La piedra descubierta pesa 510 kilogramos<\/strong>\u00a0y mide 100 cent\u00edmetros de largo, 72 de ancho y 50 cent\u00edmetros de alto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">El hallazgo del zafiro se debe a una casualidad: un hombre perforaba un pozo en una finca, en el distrito de Ratnapura, al sur de Ski Lanka; conforme a las leyes del pa\u00eds, esta piedra preciosa\u00a0es propiedad del due\u00f1o o la due\u00f1a de la tierra, cuyo nombre no se ha dado a conocer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>La Autoridad de Gemas y Joyer\u00eda orden\u00f3 trasladar la gran roca a una caja fuerte del Banco de Ceil\u00e1n en Colombo<\/strong>, donde ser\u00e1 resguardada con vigilancia armada,\u00a0inform\u00f3 la cadena local\u00a0<em>News First<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A star sapphire cluster worth approximately $100 million found in a Sri Lankan\u2019s man backyard by workmen digging a well. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/46cE6cqfvx\">pic.twitter.com\/46cE6cqfvx<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Mike Sington (@MikeSington) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeSington\/status\/1420014471313985536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 27, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Un examen preliminar habr\u00eda establecido el valor de esta gema gigante en al menos 200 millones de d\u00f3lares, sin embargo, <strong>el presidente de dicha agencia gubernamental considera que su precio podr\u00eda ascender\u00a0hasta los 1,000 millones<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Algunos expertos se\u00f1alan que, aunque el esp\u00e9cimen tiene un valor en quilates alto\u00a0(2.5 millones de quilates),\u00a0es posible que no todas las piedras dentro del racimo sean de alta calidad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Este zafiro ha sido bautizado como \u00abSerendipity\u00bb.<\/strong> La Real Academia de la Lengua define serendipia como: \u00abHallazgo valioso que se produce de manera accidental o casual\u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">El a\u00f1o pasado los ingresos del pa\u00eds por la venta de piedras preciosas, diamantes y art\u00edculos de joyer\u00eda rondaron la mitad de esta cifra estimada del valor de este zafiro. Debido al papel inusual que tienen estas rocas en el presupuesto y la percepci\u00f3n internacional de Sri Lanka, <strong>el sitio web de su Autoridad de Gemas y Joyer\u00eda proclama al pa\u00eds como la\u00a0\u00abcapital mundial de los zafiros\u00bb<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Fotograf\u00eda:<\/strong> commons.wikimedia.org<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka se autoproclama como la\u00a0\u00abcapital mundial de los zafiros\u00bb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221,6],"tags":[193,192,190,191],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-de-interes","category-internacional","tag-joyeria","tag-serendipity","tag-sri-lanka","tag-zafiro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elperiodico.mx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elperiodico.mx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elperiodico.mx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elperiodico.mx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elperiodico.mx\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/elperiodico.mx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381,"href":"https:\/\/elperiodico.mx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions\/381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elperiodico.mx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elperiodico.mx\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elperiodico.mx\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elperiodico.mx\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}