Who knows what and how many jewels will made from this super, ultra very big diamond. It is so great that not even seem a most precious gem: is a “monster” of more than two hundred grams, with a circumference similar to that of a tennis ball. It is the second largest diamond ever been extracted, and came from the mine Karowe, in Botswana. The stone weighs 1,111 carats, that is 222 grams, and is owned by the Canadian Lucara Diamond Corporation. It is the largest gem found in the last 110 years and the second gem quality ever extracted from a mine. Last July the Lucara sold a much smaller stone (341.9 carats) of the same type (IIa) for 20.6 million dollars, or 60 thousand dollars per carat. “It’s almost impossible to estimate a value for a stone so unique, since the value is highly dependent on the color, clarity and cut, and polishing,” says Edward Sterck, an analyst at BMO, specializes in the diamond industry. The record, for now, is still the 3,106 carat Cullinan diamond presented to King Edward VII in 1905 and after cutted into nine large gems, plus 96 smaller stones. One of them, weighing 317.4 carats, is in the British Imperial Crown. Federico Graglia
