101 carat and 71 carat diamonds unearthed!
Total
recoveries over 100 carats
at
Letšeng reaches to 14 during 2018
Gem
Diamonds Limited announces the recovery of high quality 101 carat and 71 carat
white Type IIa diamonds, both recovered within a twenty four hour period, from
the Letšeng mine in Lesotho, the highest dollar per carat kimberlite diamond
mine in the world. The recovery of the 101 carat diamond brings the total
recoveries at Letšeng to a record fourteen diamonds of over 100 carats during
2018.
Letšeng is renowned for its regular production
of large, top colour, exceptional white diamonds, making it the highest average
dollar per carat kimberlite diamond mine in the world. Since Gem Diamonds
acquired Letšeng in 2006, it has produced over 60 +100 carat, large, top
colour, exceptional white diamonds, making it the highest average dollar per
carat kimberlite diamond mine in the world.
In
addition, Letšeng has produced high quality pink and blue diamonds, with a rare
blue diamond achieving a sales price of US$603 047 per carat in 2013 and an
exceptional pink diamond achieving $187 700 per carat in 2016.
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