24.98 carat diamond sold for US$190K

BlueRock Diamonds PLC, diamond producer which owns and operates the Kareevlei Diamond Mine in the Kimberley region of South Africa have sold the 24.98 carat diamond, recovered earlier this month. The Diamond achieved an auction price of US$190,000.

 

Mike Houston, Executive Chairman commented, “We are delighted with the sale of our largest diamond to date, a 24.98 carat gem quality stone, which showcases the potential of Kareevlei. We continue to make excellent progress implementing our development strategy to increase production and are clearly seeing the impact of higher throughput being achieved reflected in the number of high value stones we continue to produce.

 

To this end, I look forward to providing a more detailed update in our quarterly production report, which is expected to be announced in early July.”  

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