Digging the largest second-largest diamond, extremely expensive

Diamonds weighing up to 910 carats, are expected to have a high price 'sky-high'.

One has just been found in diamond mines in Lesotho, a country in southern Africa.

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The 910-carat diamond has just been found in Africa.

According to UPI, diamonds are found in the company's Letšeng mine.

According to the company's press release, this is a colorless diamond of type IIa weighing up to 910 carats and of superior quality.

Colorless diamonds of type IIa are diamonds with very little nitrogen atoms and this makes them very expensive and highly valuable.

This is also the largest diamond found at Letšeng mine and is believed to be the fifth largest in the world.

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This is a colorless diamond type IIa of superior quality.

"Since Gem Diamonds acquired Letšeng mine in 2006, the mine has produced the most notable diamonds in the world. However, this top quality diamond is the largest one to be exploited until. Now and shows the outstanding quality of Letšeng mine ' , Clifford Elphick, CEO of Gem Diamonds, said.

Gem Diamonds has not yet announced how much it will sell diamonds. In 2006, the company sold a 357 carat diamond for $ 19.3 million (nearly VND 440 billion).

Ben Davis, an analyst, told Bloomberg: "Diamond pricing is very diverse and influenced by many factors. But assuming the diamond is not surrounded by impurities, we estimate it has. The initial price is 40 million USD (909 billion VND) ".