Lucapa Diamond Company has recovered a 176 carat, type IIa rough diamond from its Lulo alluvial mine in Angola. The rough diamond is the eighth largest diamond to be discovered at Lulo mine since it began operations in 2015. The rough diamond is also the fifth diamond over 100 carats retreived so far this year. Take a look.
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Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Lucapa Diamond Company Recovers 176 Carat Rough Diamond From Lulo Mine
Wednesday, May 29, 2024
Lucapa Recovers 195 Carat Rough Diamond From Lulo Mine
Lucapa Diamond Company has recovered a 195 carat, type IIa rough diamond from its Lulo alluvial mine in Angola. Take a look.
Wednesday, March 06, 2024
Lulo Recovers Two +100 Carat Diamonds On Consecutive Days
Lucapa Diamond Company has recovered two rough diamonds (162 and 116 carats) from its Lulo mine in Angola over a two day period. Take a look.
Thursday, November 09, 2023
Lucapa Recovers 235 Carat Rough Diamond From Lulo Mine
Lucapa Diamond Company has recovered a 235 carat rough diamond, a high quality, type IIa diamond from its Mining Block 550 portion of the site, which is just south of Mining Block 19, from its Lulo mine in Angola. Take a look.
Monday, November 06, 2023
Lucapa Recovers 208 Carat Rough Diamond
Lucapa Diamond Company has recovered a 208 carat rough diamond, type IIa, at Lulo, Angola. Take a look.
Friday, July 07, 2023
Lucapa Recovers 180.87 Carat Rough Diamond At Lulo
Lucapa Diamond Company has recovered a 180.87 carat, Type IIa, white rough diamond at its Lulo alluvial mine in Angola. Take a look.
Friday, February 24, 2023
Lucapa Recovers 150 Carat Diamond At Lulo
Friday, September 30, 2022
Lucapa Diamond Company Recovers 113 Carat Rough Diamond
Lucapa Diamond Company has recovered a 113 carat, type IIa rough diamond at its Lulo mine in Angola. Take a look.
Friday, September 23, 2022
Lucapa Diamond Company Recovers 131 Carat Rough Diamond
Tuesday, September 06, 2022
Lucapa’s Lulo Mine Recovers 160 Carat Rough Diamond
Truly one-of-a-kind find. The new addition marks the 28th diamond over 100 carats from Lulo mine.
Thursday, July 28, 2022
The Lulo Rose
A brilliant storyteller. A 170 carat rough diamond was discovered during excavations at the Lulo mine in Angola. The type IIa rough diamond is believed to be the largest pink diamond recovered in the last 300 years.
Thursday, May 19, 2022
Lucapa’s Mothae Mine Recovers A 204 Carat Diamond
Lucapa Diamond Company has recovered a 204 carat rough diamond from its Mothae mine in Lesotho.
Friday, May 14, 2021
Lucapa Recovers 138 Carat Rough Diamond
Wednesday, April 07, 2021
Lucapa Recovers 144-carat Rough Diamond
Lucapa Diamond Company has recovered a 144-carat rough diamond from its Lulo alluvial mine in Angola. The company found the D-color, type IIa rough diamond at the site's Mining Block 08, a section of the deposit known for its large, high-value rough diamonds. The rough diamond is the 6th over 100 carats Lucapa has found at Lulo this year, and the 23rd of that magnitude from the site since mining operations began.
Thursday, April 01, 2021
Three 100 Plus Carats Diamonds Recovered At Lulo
Lucapa Diamond Company has recovered three more 100 plus carat rough diamonds at its Lulo alluvial mine in Angola. The company found a 131 carat D-color, type IIa, a brown diamond weighing 118 carats and a 133 carat lower quality grey diamond at the site's high-value Mining Block 46. That section, which is located along the Canguige tributary, also produced a 114 carat, D-color, type IIa stone earlier this month, as well as 104 carat and 113 carat diamonds in January.
Tuesday, March 02, 2021
Lulo Mine Recovers 114 Carat Diamond
Lucapa Diamond Company has recovered a 114 carat, D-color, type IIa diamond at its Lulo alluvial mine in Angola. Take a look.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
215 Carat Diamond Recovered At Mothae
Lucapa Diamond Company has recovered a 215 carat rough from its Mothae mine in Lesotho, the largest high quality diamond it has found at the deposit. The D-color, white, type IIa diamond is the second diamond over 200 carats the miner has unearthed since it began commercial operations at the site in 2019. Take a look.
Wednesday, January 06, 2021
Lucapa Recovers 113 Carat Diamond At Lulo
The 113 carat rough diamond had been recovered from Mining Block 46, downstream of the Canguige river at Lulo in Angola. There may be more large high value diamonds in the area. Stay tuned.
Tuesday, December 15, 2020
Lucapa Recovers 101 Carat Rough Diamond from Mothae
Lucapa Diamond Company has recovered a 101 carat rough diamond from its Mothae mine in Lesotho. The company found the D color, type IIa diamond in the mine's southern lobe region. Take a look.
Tuesday, December 08, 2020
Lucapa Recovers 127 Carat Diamond
Lucapa Diamond Company has unearthed a 127 carat rough diamond from the newly mined floodplain area of its Lulo deposit in Angola. The company found the gem quality diamond in mining block 24 of the Leziria floodplains, an area it began mining in the fourth quarter of the year. Take a look.