The largest diamond found in more than a century has been unearthed at a mine in Botswana, and the country’s president showed off the fist-sized stone to the world at a viewing ceremony Thursday.
The Botswana government says the huge 2,492-carat diamond is the second-biggest ever discovered in a mine. It’s the biggest diamond found since 1905.
Which billionaire is going to spend money on this rather than spending it on helping humanity?
If the money eventually gets to the people of Botswana then it could help them. Feels like a long shot though.
When was the last time a transaction involving a giant precious jewel benefited regular people?
Look ma, a rock…
Please, I’d rather have man made stones as they are cheaper and require no slave labour
I just want to know what genius named carats and karats ostensibly the same thing, especially when both are related to jewellery, but one means purity and the other is just a measure of weight
It’s intentional to sow confusion. That way you just defer to the nice, good-looking sales person at your local jewelry store to tell you what is valuable and don’t question the cartel pricing and artificial scarcity.
Isn’t that some American BS? Every non American food I’ve had was measured in Kilocalories
Some poor person probably got paid the whipping sum of $20 for finding that thing
I doubt the poor person in question was running a high-tech X-ray diamond finder.
I wonder what percentage of people at least skim the story before forming an opinion.
That is a cartoonishly large diamond. Cut it into that stereotypical cartoon diamond shape!
Some billionaire is probably gonna turn it into a door handle, unfortunately
