Russians extract huge, flawless diamond

[dArKeR]

Russia's diamond mining company Alrosa announced on Wednesday that it has extracted a giant 301.55 carat diamond - the third heaviest jewellery quality diamond to have been mined in the history of Russia and the former Soviet Union.

The diamond, extracted by the company's Udachninsky mining plant, whose name means "successful" in Russian, is canary-coloured, flawless and is believed to have been about one-third of a larger diamond.

"It is a fragment of an even larger octahedron," said Gennady Shmarov, the factory's chief geologist, in a statement published on the company's website. "There is hope that more fragments of the stone will be discovered."

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[private_ryan]

1. Kobe Bryant bought it for his wife after the $4 mil wasn't enough

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[trotsky]

2. LMAO

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