Monday, May 9, 2016

The record price for a raw diamond – TVN24 BiS

For the 63 million sold raw diamond weighing 813 carats. This is a record – uncut stone has not received so far as high prices – said Monday the Canadian mining company Lucar Diamond, which soon will issue up for auction a larger stone.

Lucar, which is listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange, said in a statement only that it is a stone found in Botswana called “constellations”. Neither the name of the buyer nor the terms of the sale carried out by a specialized in the evaluation of diamonds and trade in the company Nemesis International were not disclosed.

ZR & oacute; DLO: PAP / EPA / JUSTIN LANE A diamond the size of a tennis ball hit the auction

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the current record is unlikely to be beaten on June 29, when at Sotheby’s in London will take place bid even bigger stone sold by Lucar.

This will be the uncut diamond “Lesedi La Ron,” which in the local language Tswana means “our light.” The size of a tennis ball and having 1,109 carats, was found in November in the same mine Diamonds in Botswana and is the largest after the famous Cullin (3106 carats) rough diamond quality found in South Africa.

Stocks Lucar Diamond in the stock market Stockholm early afternoon gained 8.58 percent. The main shareholder is the Swedish family Lundin.

The most expensive diamond in the world – the price of one carat – is the “Blue Moon of Josephine” (Blue Moon Josephine), a rare blue flawless diamond from South Africa found in January 2014 year. It has a 12.03 carat (2.406 g). It reached a record price of 48.4 million dollars at auction in Geneva in November last year and bought it as a gift for his 7-year-old daughter Josephine Hong Kong billionaire real estate tycoon Joseph Lau.

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