The Debswana company, a diamond producer in Botswana, announced on Wednesday the discovery in this southern African country of a 1,098-carat diamond, the third largest of its type ever found in the world, according to it.
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This stone, discovered on June 1, was shown to Botswanan President Mokgweetsi Masisi in the capital, Gaborone.
It is considered the third largest of its kind found on the planet, said Lynette Armstrong, director of Debswana, jointly owned by the government and South African diamond dealer De Beers.
This discovery "
brings hope to a struggling nation,
" she added. The largest known diamond is the “
Cullinan
”, over 3,100 carats, unearthed in South Africa in 1905. The second, of 1,109 carats, was discovered in 2015 in the Karowe mine in the northeast. from Botswana. Botswana is the largest African producer of diamonds.
