It is one thing to find big flawless diamonds, but an entirely different ball-game to sell such large diamonds as the ‘Lesedi La Rona’ stone that Lucara Diamond Corp recovered from its Karowe mine, in Botswana.
“It’s difficult for people to understand what a rough diamond would yield. It’s hard for people to commit $70-million dollars to something when they don’t know what they’re going to get. It is a real problem,” Lucara president and CEO William Lamb told delegates at a mining symposium in Vancouver this week.
