Islamabad - Canadian mining company Lucara Diamond Corporation has announced that it has discovered a large diamond weighing 2,492 carats (or 498.4 grams) at its Karwe diamond mine in northeastern Botswana. what is
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On Thursday, the president of Botswana, Mukwetsi Masi, personally inspected the diamond and had his picture taken with the huge diamond.
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It is the second largest diamond ever discovered underground, after the 3,106-carat Culinan diamond found in South Africa in 1905.
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In the late 1800s, a large black diamond was also discovered above ground in Brazil, but is believed to be part of a meteorite.
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Canadian company Lucara has not yet estimated the price of the new diamond and has not commented on its quality. But he said it was one of the largest rough diamonds ever discovered.
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Lucara says the diamond was first detected and then recovered by the company using mega diamond recovery x-ray transmission technology. The company installed this technology there in 2017.
The idea is to identify large boulders within the rock prior to mining and then prevent them from being inadvertently damaged or broken during extraction, which is common the company said in a statement. It used to be a big loss for this industry.
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We are thrilled with the discovery of this extraordinary 2,492-carat diamond Lucara president William Lamb said in a statement.
The president of Botswana was the first to see the diamond
The government of Botswana President Mokgwetsi Masi has named it the second largest diamond in the world and was photographed with the gem at his office in the capital, Gaborone, on Thursday.
The diamond mining industry is very important to Botswana, with the value of the stones accounting for more than half of the country's total exports.
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Lucara said in his statement that the diamond industry provides a wide range of socio-economic benefits to the country, which are even more important than the mining sector citing important sectors such as education and health care.
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This is the third large diamond discovered at the Crowway mine in recent years. The 1,758-carat stone previously discovered in 2019 was the largest ever mined in Botswana, named Sewelo. It means rare find in the local language.
Crowe Mine also extracted a 1,174-carat diamond in 2021 using the same X-ray technology.
