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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, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 27 2017, @08:26PM
Dear contented Capitalist lackey--or stingy member of the Ownership Class, as the case may be:
After getting a huge unexpected payday, a magnanimous individual would spread around his good fortune.
The word "share" comes to mind.
Back in our tribal past, I'm pretty sure that a human who came into such a windfall and made the rare move of not sharing that with his tribe would be banished (without his windfall) or killed outright.
My assessment: Capitalism has made (some) humans less civilized.
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