VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- The Lucara Diamond Corp. announced Thursday that miners in Botswana have unearthed the second-largest diamond ever found.
A statement by the Canadian-based company said the 1,111-carat diamond, slightly smaller than a tennis ball, came from its Karowe Mine in Botswana, a landlocked country in southern Africa. Only the 3,106-carat Cullinan diamond, discovered in South Africa in 1905 and cut into nine stones, some of which comprise Britain's Crown Jewels, as well as 96 smaller stones, is a larger find.