Large diamond fever: “It breaks all records” – Expressen

The seller is the Canadian-Swedish company mining company ” Lucara Diamond where the Lundin family is the largest individual shareholder with nearly 18 percent of the votes in the company.

The company is listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange. The news of record sales were shares rise by over 6 percent on Monday morning.

” The Constellation ” was found in November 2015 by the company’s employees in Karowe mine in Botswana. The diamond is the sixth largest found in the world.

” The Constellation ” was sold for 513 million

When the diamond now went under the hammer was sold for $ 63.1 million, approximately 513 million crowns.

– This is the highest price paid for a rough diamond, it breaks all records, William Lamb, president of the Canadian-Swedish mining company Lucara diamond in a press release.

But the company can count on more money for the record diamond. The company will namely receive 10 percent of net profit from the abrasive diamonds that results when ” The Constellation ” shared.

For the truly diamantsugne there is still a chance later in the summer a real bargain.

on June 29, the mining company sells raw diamond ” Lesedi la Rona ”, ” Our light ”, the venerable Sotheby’s in London. The diamond, which is on all 1109 carats, is the second largest found in the world and the size of a tennis ball. Formally called diamond Karowe AK6. Although it has been unearthed in the mining company’s Botswana Mine.

– We now look forward to the next step in Lucaras development with the sale of the spectacular ” Lesedi la Rona ”, says CEO William Lamb.

” Lesedi la Rona ” can break records

the selling price is expected to be a record $ 70 million or 570 million Swedish crowns.

” Lesedi la Rona ”, considered be at least 2.25 billion years old.

Giant diamond is already now for scrying at the auction firm’s offices in New York, reports the Reuters news agency.

Only ” Cullinan 1-diamond ” beats ” Lesedi la Rona ” in size. It was found in 1905 near Pretoria in South Africa and was on all 3,106 carats. The diamond was divided, however, into smaller units. Parts of the original diamond sits in the British crown jewels.