South Africans dig up a 507-carat diamond | The Columbus Dispatch

Petra Diamonds Ltd. says a diamond the size of a chicken egg has been found at South Africa's Cullinan mine.

[Tomcat]

How much it is ??????????

[Breeze]

WOW! I sell jewelry at a national jewelry store. I sold a small 1 carat diamond ring last night that was stunning. I can imagine what this stone really looks like. The picture probably does not do it justice. Congratulations Petra Diamonds, Ltd. What a find!

[Balls Deep]

Tomcat wrote:

How much it is ??????????

Priceless. We won't know until it's sold at auction.

[Blood Diamonds]

Great. I hope the poor African who found it got an extra 2 cents pay and a promise not to have his hands cut off.

[cornfield]

Blood Diamons is reading my mind.

[Donna Criscuolo]

This is truly amazing. what a great find..............

[pressban]

How much of it will they give the poor person who found it? Probably a free lunch.

[freddy]

Thats South African capitalism for you! Pay indigenous people pennies on the dollar to do dangerous work and take billions in diamonds and other natural resources for your own profits.

[GAR--142]

And Petra Diamonds Ltd. guaranteed me the one I bought from them last year could never be duplicated!?
Where's my lawyer?

[Dyemon]

I wish it was me who found that rock.

[G-Dubba-you]

freddy wrote:

Thats South African capitalism for you! Pay indigenous people pennies on the dollar to do dangerous work and take billions in diamonds and other natural resources for your own profits.

Do you really believe this?

[Interested bystander]

freddy wrote:

Thats South African capitalism for you! Pay indigenous people pennies on the dollar to do dangerous work and take billions in diamonds and other natural resources for your own profits.

Good point, Freddy Obama. Down with capitalism!!!!

[Burt]

Diamonds are worthless. The only reason they're expensive is because DeBeers and the world jewlery industry has manipulated the price.

[sotellme]

G-Dubba-you wrote:

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Do you really believe this?

..umm..so whats the truth mr 2000 posts..and please dont say something stupid like I know u will..

[sotellme]

..nevermind...I just saw some of your other posts.
You prob keep the lights on at night just to avoid the dark.

[objective]

Burt wrote:

Diamonds are worthless. The only reason they're expensive is because DeBeers and the world jewlery industry has manipulated the price.

you have a point on one hand - but then on the flipside the opposite is true too - the reason diamonds HAVE value, is that only so many of the stockpiled ones are released to market... in retrosect its a smart management move, or they WOULD be worthless.

[babymatic]

do africans know they could pocket those diamonds jump on a banana boat to the US and become billionaires?!

[G-Dubba-you]

babymatic wrote:

do africans know they could pocket those diamonds jump on a banana boat to the US and become billionaires?!

The black faced leaders will kill them and their entire family for that.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7761268.stm

"It was dubbed Hakudzokwi kumunda, meaning "Operation you would never go back to the diamond fields"."

You will find no happy blackfaces on all of Africa these days.