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My Promise!
PHOTO: REUTERS
LESOTHO DIAMOND: Found at the Letseng Diamond Mine.
The biggest diamond to be found in 13 years, the "Lesotho Promise", was sold recently at an auction for more than $12 million and is expected to fetch in excess of $20 million once it is cut up. The 603-carat (120 gm) diamond, named after the tiny African mountain kingdom where it was found, was sold to the South African Diamond Corporation. The 10th largest white diamond ever to be found, it will be cut into a large heart-shaped diamond and several smaller stones, and then be sold. The uncut diamond is a third bigger than a golf ball. The biggest rough diamond ever found was the Cullinan at 3,106 carats, while the second largest, the Excelsior, was 995 carats. Both were found in South Africa. The Lesotho diamond was found at the Letseng Diamond Mine, high in the mountains of the tiny nation, which is surrounded by South Africa, by a woman who was sorting through the rocks. She started screaming and all the people around thought she had been electrocuted.
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