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Australian Lucapa Diamond (ASX:LOM) has unearthed another massive diamond – this time, it’s pink and 38.6-carats. According to the news story: The coloured stone is the largest “fancy” pink diamond recovered to date from Lulo, surpassing the 28.5-carat, said the company, which sold it earlier this week as part of a parcel of other rocks …
Australian Lucapa Diamond (ASX:LOM) has unearthed another massive diamond – this time, it’s pink and 38.6-carats.
According to the news story:
The coloured stone is the largest “fancy” pink diamond recovered to date from Lulo, surpassing the 28.5-carat, said the company, which sold it earlier this week as part of a parcel of other rocks for a total of $5.8 million.
The Lulo diamond project, located 150km from Alrosa’s Catoca mine, the world’s fourth largest diamond mine, hosts type-2a diamonds which account for less than 1% of global supply.
The 38.6-carat pink diamond was sold earlier this week as part of a parcel of other rocks for a total of $5.8 million.
Lucapa holds a 35-year license for the project, which recently bore a 404.2-carat white diamond, considered the largest diamond ever recovered in Angola and the biggest diamond ever found by an Australian company.
Angola is the world’s No.4 diamond producer by value and No.6 by volume. Its industry, which began a century ago under Portuguese colonial rule, is successfully emerging from a long period of difficulty as a result of a civil war that ended in 2002.
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