{An Australian company unearthed a massive 404-carat diamond in Angola valued at as much as $14 million, according to ABC.}<\/p>\n
“We’re not used to valuing 400-carat diamonds,” Lucapa chairman Miles Kennedy told ABC.<\/p>\n
The Lucapa Diamond Company, based in Perth, said it discovered the diamond in its Lulo mine about 300 miles east of Angola’s capital, Luanda.<\/p>\n
The company claimed the diamond was the largest found on record in the southern African nation as well as the biggest diamond found by an Australian miner.<\/p>\n
Angola is the fourth largest diamond-producing nation by value, Lucapa said.<\/p>\n
A photograph of the diamond supplied by the company shows it measuring at about 7 centimeters, or 2.75 inches.<\/p>\n
The Sydney Morning Herald noted that this diamond’s debut comes months after another company found a 1,111-carat stone in Botswana, second only to a 3,106-carat diamond found in South Africa in 1905.<\/p>\n
Source:US Today:[Massive $14 million diamond found in southern Africa->http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation-now\/2016\/02\/15\/massive-14-million-diamond-found-southern-africa\/80405302\/]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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