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The largest diamond found in more than a century has been unearthed at a mine in Botswana, and the country’s president showed off the fist-sized stone to the world at a viewing ceremony Thursday.
The Botswana government says the huge 2,492-carat diamond is the second-biggest ever discovered in a mine. It’s the biggest diamond found since 1905.
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Look ma, a rock…
Please, I’d rather have man made stones as they are cheaper and require no slave labour
require no slave labour
Apparently this was mined in a Canadian-run “ethical diamond” mine with modern worker conditions, environment protections, and safety regulations. I was kinda surprised.
It was located using X-ray technology designed to find large, high-value diamonds.
Sounds like they’re using tech at this mine.
Or nothing? Rings are decorations there’s no need for them.
Diamonds are primarily used in industry, but again mainly man made
Kinda need diamonds to cut certain things. Have a diamond embedded steel plate ment for sharpening knives. Only cost $10 for 3 of em
I just want to know what genius named carats and karats ostensibly the same thing, especially when both are related to jewellery, but one means purity and the other is just a measure of weight
It’s intentional to sow confusion. That way you just defer to the nice, good-looking sales person at your local jewelry store to tell you what is valuable and don’t question the cartel pricing and artificial scarcity.
Reminds me of how those malls would have two or three jewelry stores in the middle, right across from each other, and they were all owned by the same company!
Mmmmm, carrots
Im a carets man, myself ^^
Some poor person probably got paid the whipping sum of $20 for finding that thing
I doubt the poor person in question was running a high-tech X-ray diamond finder.
I wonder what percentage of people at least skim the story before forming an opinion.
Oh that’s mine I dropped it
DO NOT BUY this when it’s new! It’s gonna be 1/10th the price when it gets pawned.
That’s a Chaos Emerald. Botswana is about to get all of its fauna robotized.
Makes me want to watch ‘Blood Diamond’ again.
Nice precious rock the Botswanans found! I’m sure it would be preserved as it is, or if it’s sold, that it would greatly benifit Botswana’s economy
/s :(
Can I haz shiny rock, plz?
Neat.
Someone call Mark Mothersbaugh asap. 💩
Cool, I can burn it to ash with the tools in my garage.
Diamonds are shiny/glittery and hard, that’s about it.
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