The largest diamond found in more than a century has been unearthed at a mine in Botswana, and the country’s president showed off the fist-sized stone to the world at a viewing ceremony Thursday.
The Botswana government says the huge 2,492-carat diamond is the second-biggest ever discovered in a mine. It’s the biggest diamond found since 1905.
Nice precious rock the Botswanans found! I’m sure it would be preserved as it is, or if it’s sold, that it would greatly benifit Botswana’s economy
/s :(
Neat.
Which billionaire is going to spend money on this rather than spending it on helping humanity?
If the money eventually gets to the people of Botswana then it could help them. Feels like a long shot though.
When was the last time a transaction involving a giant precious jewel benefited regular people?
Maybe the diamond magnate will hire locals to build statues in his honour!
Yeah, somebody in Botswana will benefit; somebody corrupt. Pennies on the dollar will trickle down, if it goes the way it normally does.
Jewelry stores get robbed sometimes lol
That’s a Chaos Emerald. Botswana is about to get all of its fauna robotized.
Something something toast of Botswana.
Although infertile, the hybrid had a very active libido, mounting both ewes and nannies even when they were not in heat. This earned the hybrid the name Bemya or rapist. He was castrated when he was 10 months old because he was becoming a nuisance.
Welp
The beauty of nature. Same energy as this.
“Stop doing biology, millions of grant dollars wasted but no practical use found, etc etc”
Botz the Toast.
Someone once described diamonds as nothing but space poop & it’s all I think about when I see ppl w diamond jewelry 😂💍💩☄️
Some poor person probably got paid the whipping sum of $20 for finding that thing
I doubt the poor person in question was running a high-tech X-ray diamond finder.
I wonder what percentage of people at least skim the story before forming an opinion.
X-ray diamond finder
*rolls eyes* This is real life, not Minecraft!
Cool, I can burn it to ash with the tools in my garage.
Diamonds are shiny/glittery and hard, that’s about it.
And thermally conductive, and low-friction, and semiconducting. They are pretty neat, just for different reasons than people think.
Also, it wouldn’t leave ash, because it’s totally pure carbon, but that’s just a nitpick.
Well, I could have gone into detail about their scientific and industrial value, but those aren’t what massively inflates their perceived importance and price.
Oh that’s mine I dropped it
I kind of think they should leave it like that.
They likely will! If touched it is then “cut” and less value. The raw “uncut” version is what will sell.
And then the buyer will probably cut it into whatever number and carat of individual gems will sell for the most - or so I understand.
They said the 1905 one was cut into multiple gems?! Seems such a waste.
Eventually it’s how things go… basically dividing the wealth but ultimately we’re talking about bullshit carbon and shouldn’t be so concerned. Yet…
I mean, just as a scientific object it’s fascinating. I’m not going to be shamed about caring just because other people care for stupid reasons, haha.
Just given the nature of diamonds and light, there are more interesting shapes. They could cut it into a simple cubic, but that wouldn’t be very interesting and you would still have some substantial pieces left over to make other diamonds from. So the usual plan is to cut more or less the largest stone you can while avoiding any major flaws and using a cut that will display the properties of diamond in their best light, and then cutting the rest into diamonds that can be sold, as well. I believe there was a larger diamond found a while back that had two fairly large diamonds cut out of it because the nature of the uncut diamond made that more profitable and esthetically pleasing than if they had just cut a single larger piece.
Diamonds are interesting and can be pretty, but they’re also valued for vastly more than their worth, and there are other very interesting options for jewelry that are neither as expensive nor as ethically dubious as many diamonds are.
Makes me want to watch ‘Blood Diamond’ again.
Someone call Mark Mothersbaugh asap. 💩
Can I haz shiny rock, plz?
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Imagine how many people have thought about whether they could fit that rock in their butt.
Well, CR, you’ve just added one more to that number. Thanks friend.
I just want to know what genius named carats and karats ostensibly the same thing, especially when both are related to jewellery, but one means purity and the other is just a measure of weight
There’s worse: 1 Calorie = 1000 calorie
Isn’t that some American BS? Every non American food I’ve had was measured in Kilocalories
The pet food lists kcals/can for whatever it’s worth. I live in the US.
I’m from France. Food packaging uses kcal but I’ve seen articles about diets and stuff use Cal.
It’s intentional to sow confusion. That way you just defer to the nice, good-looking sales person at your local jewelry store to tell you what is valuable and don’t question the cartel pricing and artificial scarcity.
Reminds me of how those malls would have two or three jewelry stores in the middle, right across from each other, and they were all owned by the same company!
Mmmmm, carrots
Im a carets man, myself ^^
