Lucapa Unearths Two Big Diamonds from Lulo

Lucapa Diamond Company has recovered two rough stones weighing more than 100 carats from its Lulo mine in Angola over a two-day period.

The miner plans to offer the first, a 162.42-carat, type IIa diamond, as part of its normal run-of-mine sales later this month, it said Tuesday. It will sell a 116.14-carat rough, which it discovered the next day, by tender at a future date, along with other high-value, type IIa diamonds the company unearthed from the deposit recently.

Lucapa recovered the two stones from the terraces of the site’s mining block 46, known for its large, high-value diamonds.

The new discoveries are the first over 100 carats the miner has retrieved from Lulo this year. The last stone of that magnitude was a 235-carat rough it found in November. In total, the company has retrieved 42 stones weighing more than 100 carats from Lulo since 2012.

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Main image: The 116-carat rough (left) and the 162-carat diamond (right). (Lucapa Diamond Company)