Mere days after announcing a huge 1,098-carat stone find at their Karowe mine in Botswana, Lucara has another reason to rejoice: The miner just unearthed an even bigger diamond weighing 1,174 carats from the same mine, IDEX Online reports.
In a statement, the company explained: “On the same production day, several other diamonds of similar appearance (471 carat, 218 carat, 159 carat) were recovered at the main XRT circuit, indicating the 1,174 diamond was part of a larger diamond with an estimated weight of > 2000 carats”.
Lucara described the stone as a clivage gem measuring 77x55x33mm “of variable quality with significant domains of high-quality white gem material”. Lucara’s CEO Eira Thomas added: “Although complex, these diamond recoveries do contain large domains of top colour white gem that will be transformed through our partnership with HB Antwerp into valuable collections of top colour polished diamonds, very much in high demand in the market today”.
