Five big diamonds, with a total weight of over 50 carats has been discovered at the Rockwell’s Holpan, Klipdam and Saxendrift mines.

A diamond miner, in a statement, remarked that this brought the total number of 50-carat-plus stones discovered in its current fiscal year to eleven.

At Holpan, a 136-carat clean white, broken octahedral stone was recovered while at Klipdam, a 69.26-carat pinkish stone with a brown overtone and a blocked shape was discovered.

At Saxendrift, three stones a 58 carat, a 82 carats and a massive 104 carats - were recovered from mining operations.

“These large stones are currently undergoing cleaning and valuation by the company experts.

“Thereafter, they are likely to be sold into Rockwell’s joint venture with Steinmetz Diamond Group and, once manufactured and sold as polished goods, will provide additional profit share revenue to the Company.” He went on.

It is very rare to find one large diamond let alone five big diamonds together!

This entry was posted on Wednesday, September 1st, 2010 at 5:23 pm.