Approximately 2 feet long by 1 foot wide, it is valued at $100 million. This nearly 75-pound pearl was found in 2006 inside a clam. pearl known as the Pearl of Allah or the Pearl of Lao Tze, valued at $35 million, also found off Palawan in 1934. It easily beat the erstwhile “world’s largest” 15 lb. In 2006, a Filipino fishermen found a 26-inch long, 12-inch, nearly 75 pound pearl off Palawan which has been valued at $100 million. Only about half of 1 percent of the world’s pearls are natural.īut rarity is only one of the factors which go into the pricing of a natural pearl. Only one in 10,000 oysters will produce a Natural Pearl and of those only one in a million will be gem quality. Natural gulf pearls are among the finest in the world and are still found today in the many countries that surround the gulf such as the United Arab Emirates, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar and Oman. Oriental Pearls (also called Bahraini or Genuine Pearls), are the world’s most precious gem and continue to break world record prices in both the Middle-east and in the west. Natural pearls have been prized for their beauty and rarity for over four millennia.
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