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Lucara Diamond Corp. has sold the 1,109-carat "Lesedi La Rona" diamond for $53 million, roughly $47,790 a carat:
The Lesedi La Rona, or "our light" in the Tswana language spoken in Botswana, went unsold at a Sotheby's auction in London last year. It had been expected to sell for about $86 million.
The Vancouver-based company, known for producing some of the world's biggest and best stones, unearthed the diamond at its Karowe mine in Botswana. In May 2016, Lucara sold the smaller 813-carat The Constellation diamond for a record $63 million, or about $77,500 a carat, to Dubai-based rough-diamond trading company Nemesis International DMCC.
The Lesedi La Rona is the third largest rough diamond ever found.
Previous coverage:
Three Huge Diamonds Found in Botswana
Huge Diamond to be Sold at Auction.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday September 27 2017, @07:22PM
The whims of ancient billionaires are now the monuments of our civilizations.
They will clearly outlast our shacks, and amaze the cockroaches, long after we've exterminated ourselves.