{"id":840022,"date":"2018-07-11T10:46:55","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T10:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=840022"},"modified":"2018-07-11T10:46:55","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T10:46:55","slug":"huge-diamonds-keep-coming-out-of-lucapas-lulo-mine-in-angola-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=840022","title":{"rendered":"Huge diamonds keep coming out of Lucapa\u2019s Lulo mine in Angola"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Cecilia Jamasmie<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n

\"Findings<\/a><\/div>\n

Australia’s Lucapa Diamond (ASX:LOM) has found yet another large sparkler at its prolific Lulo mine in Angola \u2014 a 114-carat diamond<\/a>, the eleventh 100-plus carat diamond recovered to date and the third this year.<\/p>\n

The 114-carat diamond is the eleventh 100-plus carat recovered to date and the third this year.<\/q><\/p>\n

The company said the stone will be added to an inventory of large diamonds being held for sale at a later date.<\/p>\n

Last week, the junior miner said Lulo had yielded 118 special diamonds in the first half of 2018<\/a>, including a 46-carat pink stone<\/a>, the largest coloured gem-quality rock ever recovered there.<\/p>\n

Lucapa has a 35-year license for the project, which in February bore a massive 404.2-carat white diamond, considered the largest diamond ever recovered in Angola<\/a> and the biggest ever found by an Australian company.<\/p>\n

It also holds a 70% interest in the Lesotho-based Mothae project, located within 5 km of Gem Diamonds’ (LON:GEMD) Let\u0161eng mine, which in February yielded a 910-carat rock<\/a>, the fifth biggest gem-quality diamond ever found.<\/p>\n

Angola is the world’s No.4 diamond producer by value and No.6 by volume. Its industry, which began a century ago under Portuguese colonial rule, is successfully emerging from a long period of difficulty as a result of a civil war that ended in 2002.<\/p>\n

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Selection of Lulo Specials in the unsold diamond inventory. (Image courtesy of Lucapa Diamond.<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The post Huge diamonds keep coming out of Lucapa’s Lulo mine in Angola<\/a> appeared first on MINING.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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From:: Infomine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Cecilia Jamasmie Australia’s Lucapa Diamond (ASX:LOM) has found yet another large sparkler at its prolific Lulo mine in Angola \u2014 a 114-carat diamond, the eleventh 100-plus carat diamond recovered to date and the third this year. The 114-carat diamond is the eleventh 100-plus carat recovered to date and the third this year. The company […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[360],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840022"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=840022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=840022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=840022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=840022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}