(IDEX Online) – Gem Diamonds Limited has recovered a 169 carat, top white color Type IIa diamond from the Letšeng mine in Lesotho (pictured above, the highest dollar per carat kimberlite diamond mine in the world.<?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /?>
It is the seventh diamond of over 100 carats recovered so far this year.
Last week, the firm announced the recovery of a 152-carat stone from the same mine....