Canadian mining company Lucara has just announced a massive, exceptional 2,492 carat diamond from its Karowe Diamond Mine in Botswana.
The second largest diamond ever pulled from the earth, the rough diamond weighs over a pound, and is around the size of a large potato, which is crazy to consider.
This remarkable diamond is the biggest find since the 3,106-carat Cullinan diamond, which was found in South Africa in 1905. That enormous stone was cut into nine separate stones, many of which are in the British Crown Jewels.
No word on what this huge, rare diamond is destined for, nor how much it’s valued at, though estimates are upward of $200-250 million dollars.
If the 2,492 carat diamond is ever transformed into a record-setting polished diamond, it would lose more than half of its weight during the cutting process.
“This remarkable find, one of the largest rough diamonds ever unearthed, was detected and recovered by the Company’s Mega Diamond Recovery (“MDR”) X-ray Transmission (“XRT”) technology, installed in 2017 to identify and preserve large, high-value diamonds.
The stone was recovered from the processing of EM/PK(S) kimberlite, the dominant ore type that Lucara will continue to target during the first years of the Company’s underground mining operations.”
While diamond mining is hugely resource intensive, Lucara claims their operations are highly ethical, safe, and environmentally responsible, relying on new technology to locate and retrieve these precious stones.
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Beautiful diamond very nice