{"id":1160580,"date":"2020-01-17T12:46:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T18:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1011572"},"modified":"2020-01-17T12:46:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T18:46:05","slug":"lucara-cuts-deal-to-cut-diamond-with-louis-vuitton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1160580","title":{"rendered":"Lucara cuts deal to cut diamond with Louis Vuitton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lucara Diamond Corp. (TSX:LUC)&nbsp;has struck a deal with the luxury house Louis Vuitton to cut and polish the world\u2019s largest uncut diamond, and second largest ever found.<\/p>\n<div class='d-flex justify-content-center d-xs-block d-sm-block d-md-none'>\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0'><script>googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0');});<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Under the deal, Louis Vuitton and HB Company, a diamond manufacturer in Antwerp, will cut and polish the 1,758-carat Sewelo diamond.<\/p>\n<p>Lucara isn\u2019t saying how much the deal will be worth. The company will retain 50% of the diamonds that are cut from the massive Sewelo.<\/p>\n<p>The Sewelo was unearthed at Lucara\u2019s Karowe mine in Botswana in April 2019, bumping a previous find \u2013 the 1,109-carat Lesedi La Rona \u2013 to third place.<\/p>\n<p>When Lucara unearthed the Lesedi La Rona in 2015, it was the second largest diamond ever&nbsp;recovered. But in April 2019, the Sewelo became the second largest diamond ever unearthed.<\/p>\n<p>The Sewelo is the world\u2019s largest uncut diamond.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, Lucara sold the Lesedi La Rona diamond to Graff Diamonds for $53 million.<\/p>\n<p><em>(This article first appeared in <a href=\"https:\/\/biv.com\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Business in Vancouver (opens in a new tab)\">Business in Vancouver<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the deal, Louis Vuitton and HB Company will cut and polish the 1,758-carat Sewelo diamond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1160580"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1160632,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160580\/revisions\/1160632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1160580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1160580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1160580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}