Lucara Diamond Mine has beat Jwaneng Mine to the third biggest ever diamond discovered. Located in the Southern District, Jwaneng Diamond Mine, also known as ‘The Prince of Mines’, discovered what was then the third largest diamond in the world last week.
The 1098.3 carat diamond discovered at Debswana’s Jwaneng Diamond Mine did not hold the record for the third largest diamond in the world as Lucara Diamond Mine would yesterday announce the discovery of a 1174 carat diamond.
In their press statement, the mine announced;
“Lucara has found the third biggest rough diamond ever discovered on earth, the 1174 carat dug up at Karowe Mine in Botswana.
Only two diamonds were discovered larger this stone in history, and these are the Cullinan diamond at 3,106 carats discovered in South Africa back in 1905 and Sewelo at 1758 carats discovered in 2019 at Karowe Mine.
This excludes Sergio-the 3167 carat carbonados found in the outer space between celestial earth bodies in Brazil back in 1895.
Lucara’ s announcement comes just a week after Debswana, a De Beers – Botswana’ partnership revealed its 1098 carats find, the world’s third largest “gem quality” diamond found in Jwaneng early June this year.
Debswana ‘s Jwaneng magnificent rare gem comes after the Cullinan and Lesedi la Rona in terms of gem quality diamonds size.The 1109 carat Lesedi la Rona was also recovered by Lucara in Karowe Mine, back in 2015.
The new 1,174 carat diamond represents the third +1,000 carat diamond recovered from the South Lobe of the AK6 kimberlite since 2015 after the 1,758 carat Sewelô and 1,109 carat Lesedi La Rona.
The 1174 newly found diamond, measuring 77x55x33mm, is described as a clivage gem of variable quality with significant domains of high-quality white gem material.”
Located in Central District near Letlhakane, Karowe Mine is fully owned by Lucara Diamond Mine. The mine has set a track record of discovering big, high quality diamonds.
