Yoooo! No wonder they call African diamonds “blood diamonds” because I know someone is willing to kill for this. I can’t even wrap my head around a 2400 carat diamond.
Shout out to the motherland for birthing this very precious stone. It’s so massive it doesn’t even look real.
According to The Washington Post — A 2,492-carat stone unearthed in Botswana is the second-largest diamond ever found in the world and the biggest ever recovered in the African nation, according to the Botswanan government.
Canadian mining company Lucara Diamond discovered the gemstone, hailing it as “exceptional” and “high-quality” in a statement shared Wednesday.
William Lamb, president and chief executive of Lucara, said the company was “ecstatic” about the discovery of the “extraordinary” stone after it was uncovered from the Karowe mine, which is fully owned by the company.
Lamb credited X-ray technology that has been used by the company since 2017 for the detection of the massive diamond, which was retrieved intact.
The world’s largest stone is the 3,106-carat Cullinan diamond, found in South Africa in 1905. The stone was divided into nine larger gems and nearly 100 smaller ones. Some of the gems are among the British crown jewels.
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