Canadian Mine Company, Dominion Shocked The World With The Biggest Ever Diamond Discovery In North America

Much to the world’s surprise, Dominion Diamond Mines and Rio Tinto have found the biggest ever diamond in North America on Friday. This must be one of the historical moments of these two mining companies.

As a leading diamond mining company in Canada, Dominion Diamond Mines now owns two of the highest producing diamond mines in the world. It is located about 200 km south of the Arctic Circle in the Northwest Territories.

Back to the diamond, its size is 552 carat, same as that of a chicken egg. It was in Diavik Diamond Mine that the Canadian company discovered this yellow diamond. According to the results of gem evaluation, it will be a great choice to process products from jewelry.

Diavik and Ekati are the two mines in Canada that are famous for supplying high-quality gems; however, mines in southern Africa are more renowned due to the production of big-sized gems.

In fact, common yellow stones don’t gain much attention from jewelry lovers, but that’s not true with high quality and highly intense ones. Such these stones can be sold at extremely high prices.

In his interview with Bloomberg, Shane Durgin, the Chief Executive Officer of Dominion revealed that a diamond didn’t only need a fancy yellow, but it must ensure the great rough nature as well as the abrasions it got at the processing facility. The price of such a diamond is tough to estimate. Also, the cutting process and the resulting stone are two primary factors to determine the diamond’s worth.

According to Bloomberg, the ‘unique’ discovery has become the 7^th biggest one in recent 100 years, and the diamond is one of the top 30 most massive stones in the world. The company hasn’t found any suitable diamond cutter and polisher to process it.

Regarding the most ever well-known diamond discovery, it was the case near Pretoria of South Africa, in 1905. The diamond called Cullinan has the size of 3,106 carats and then is divided into some many polished gems. The two most prominent of these gems which include the Great Star of Africa and the Lesser Star of Africa became a part of the Crown Jewels of Britain.

The Star of Africa Diamond

Dominion hoped that the company would receive the impressive resulting stone after the polish is complete. The diamond will be input a unique Canadamark number.