Meya mining recovers a 391 carat diamond
The second exceptional diamond mined & recovered The Ministry of Mines and Mineral Resources and the National Minerals Agency are delighted to announce the recovery of a 391.45-carat diamond from the Meya Mine in Kono District, Eastern Sierra Leone. The diamond, which was recovered, is the second exceptional diamond mined and recovered from the Meya River kimberlite domain, the first of 16 kimberlite domains within the mining licence area to be targeted by the Company. It could be recalled that in November 2017, Meya Mining recovered a 476 carats Type IIa diamond (the Meya Prosperity) during its initial bulk sampling Programme. As with the Meya Prosperity, which came from a 523.44 carat diamond that was broken into three pieces (476.98 carat, 27.89 carat and 18.58 carat), this stone was a 514.99 carat also broken into 3 pieces (391.53 carat, 105.43 carat and 18.11 carat). The recovery of yet another large, superdeep Type IIa diamond is significant from a geological persp...