Mining company Lucapa Diamond Company announced this Wednesday the discovery of a pure pink diamond in a mine in Angola that it believes is the largest discovered in the last 300 years and has been dubbed Rosa do Lulu.
According to Lucapa, Endiama and Rosas & Pétalas, partners of Sociedade Mineira Do Lulo, sent to Lusa, the 170-carat diamond found in the do Lulo mine in northeast Angola is one of the largest pink diamonds ever discovered. the two largest diamonds ever discovered in Angola are also in this mine.
The Angolan government, a partner of the mine, welcomed the “historic” discovery of this type IIa diamond, which contains extremely rare and pure stones: “This record and impressive pink diamond from Lulo continues to show that Angola is an important world scenario for diamond mining,” the minister said. mineral resources of Angola Diamantino Azevedo.
The stone will be sold at international auctions and is expected to sell for a very high price.
While “Rosa do Lulo” still needs to be cut and polished to reach its full value, a process in which a stone can lose 50% of its weight, similar pink diamonds have been skyrocketing in the past.
In 2017, the 59.6 carat Pink Star Diamond was auctioned in Hong Kong for US$71.2 million, about 70 million euros, and is still the most expensive diamond in history.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
