LONDON — A uncommon pink diamond has been unearthed in Angola and is claimed to be one in every of the biggest ever recovered on this planet.

The 170-carat treasured stone, known as the “Lulo Rose,” was discovered on the Lulo alluvial mine in Angola’s diamond-rich Lunda Norte area, in accordance with a press launch from the mine’s Australia-based proprietor, the Lucapa Diamond Firm.

Lucapa stated the Lulo Rose is believed to be the most important pink diamond recovered within the final 300 years and the fifth-largest diamond ever found on the Lulo alluvial mine, the place the stones are extracted from a riverbed. It is the twenty seventh diamond of 100 carats or extra to have been discovered on the mine, in accordance with the corporate.

The 2 largest diamonds ever recovered in Angola had been beforehand discovered on the similar mine, with the most important being a 404-carat clear diamond, in accordance with Lucapa, which is now trying to find the mine’s kimberlite pipes, or underground deposits that may be the primary supply of the stones.

“Lulo is an distinctive alluvial useful resource and is actually a present. We’re as soon as once more made very proud by one more historic restoration,” Lucapa’s CEO and managing director Stephen Wetherall stated in a press release Wednesday. “We too look ahead to our partnership progressing its exploration effort, the place we at the moment are bulk sampling the precedence kimberlites, in seek for the first kimberlite sources of those distinctive and high-value diamonds.”

The uncommon coloured gemstone can be offered by way of worldwide tender by Angola’s state-owned diamond advertising and marketing firm, Sodiam.

Angola is among the many world’s prime ten producers of diamonds. Just one in 10,000 diamonds discovered are coloured, in accordance with the Gemological Institute of America, a California-based nonprofit that researches gemology.

“This document and spectacular pink diamond recovered from Lulo continues to showcase Angola as an vital participant on the world stage for diamond mining and demonstrates the potential and rewards for dedication and funding in our rising diamond mining business,” Angolan Minister of Mineral Sources, Petroleum and Fuel Diamantino Azevedo stated in a press release Wednesday.