Worlds Biggest Dimond

alokmohan

30th August 2007 - 06:00 AM

Mystery and tentative excitement surrounded reports yesterday that by far the world's biggest diamond has been unearthed by a small mining company in South Africa.

Experts said that the find - twice the size of the Cullinan, or "Great Star of Africa", discovered near Pretoria in 1905 - was still in need of verification last night. As security was being tightened around the stone, Brett Jolly, a spokesman for the mining firm Two Point Five Construction, said it was being transported to a bank vault in Johannesburg, where
http://news.independent.co.uk/sci_tech/article2903601.ece

Chromodynamix

30th August 2007 - 01:29 PM

If this is true, then it is the biggest find in over 100 years, estimated to be worth $30,000,000.

DiamondJim

31st August 2007 - 07:42 AM

It has been said that some dwarf stars could have huge areas of diamond on/in them.

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