The Lucapa Diamond Company announced Monday that it had discovered another diamond of more than 100 carats, in the same block from which it had extracted the “Rosa do Lulo,” the 170-carat pink diamond, in Lunda Norte, Angola.
The new diamond, white, with superior quality of type IIa, has 160 carats, is the 28th with more than 100 carats to be mined at the Lulo mine and the sixth largest so far found at the mine in Capenda Camulemba , Lunda North.
The Australian company, which operates the mine and owns 40% of the company, which also includes state-owned Endiama (32%) and Rosa e Pétalas (28%), also announced that diamond recoveries over the past two months have been “strong”, ” with over 100 ‘Specials’ – diamonds over 10.8 carats.
The “Rosa do Lulo”, discovered in early August, is the largest diamond of this shade discovered in 300 years, it was the 5th largest discovered in Angola and the 27th with more than 100 carats recovered in the Lulo concession, four of which are over 200 carats.
According to Jornal de Angola, Lulo has revealed a high potential for “quality and quantity” since the start of its exploration in 2010, after reaching the highest value per carat worldwide in its first year of exploration, on the order of size of the 2,985 dollars (3,005 euros).
Lulo is also the mine where the largest diamond found to date in Angola was mined, at 404.2 carats, sold to the late husband of Angolan businesswoman Isabel dos Santos, Sindika Dokolo, in May 2016 for $16 million and which yielded 34. million dollars, after it was cut and turned into jewelry.
Source: DN
