I never heard of this place before finding this article. I always thought the biggest was the Kimberly Mine in South Africa.
How many know that we have people finding diamonds in Arkansas?
The world’s largest diamond miner by volume, Russia’s Alrosa, has revealed a huge light yellow rough diamond weighing almost 118.91 carats at its deposit in the northeastern region of Yakutia.
The precious stone, unearthed earlier this month, is the biggest discovery among the gemstone-quality diamonds at the company’s ‘International’ mine over the past two years. A similar 109.61 carat gem was extracted at the same deposit in the summer of 2017.
The latest discovery is nearly a perfect example of a light yellow rough diamond, which has “salient edges, one of them with cleavage, and small inclusions in the central zone,” according to Alrosa’s press-release.
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I tried to copy and paste a picture of the mine but the urls are horrendous.
