Canadian miner Lucara Diamond Corp has discovered a 1,758 carat diamond from its wholy-owned Karowe Diamond Mine in Botswana, APA learnt here Friday.
The company described the diamond as the largest diamond discovered in Botswana and the largest diamond to be mined at Karowe to date.
“Karowe has now produced two diamonds greater than 1,000 carats in just four years, affirming the coarse nature of the resource and the likelihood of recovering additional, large, high quality diamonds in the future,” he said.
The unbroken 1,758 carat stone was recovered through Lucara’s state of the art XRT circuit, which was commissioned in April 2015.
Weighing close to 352 grams and measuring 83 millimetres by 62 millimetres by 46 millimetres, the diamond has been characterized as a near gem of variable quality, including domains of high-quality white gem.
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