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TexasTowelie

(116,554 posts) Sat Aug 24, 2024, 02:24 PM Aug 24

Canadian company unearths 2,492-carat diamond in Botswana - CTV News

Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi joked about ‘owning CNN’ while displaying a 2,492-carat diamond recently unearthed from a mine.

A person holds a 2,492-carat diamond which was found in the country and on show, in Gaborone, Botswana, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024.

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Canadian company unearths 2,492-carat diamond in Botswana - CTV News (Original Post) TexasTowelie Aug 24 OP

Wow. What a diamond! When I first read this title, I was thinking that they were talking about diamond SWBTATTReg Aug 24 #1

I wonder how THIS (below) reality... ret5hd Aug 24 #2

Beautifully spoken Clouds Passing Aug 24 #3

SWBTATTReg

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1. Wow. What a diamond! When I first read this title, I was thinking that they were talking about diamond

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat Aug 24, 2024, 02:47 PM

Aug 24

mining in Canada, being that Canada has become over the last 40 or 50 years a large diamond/etc. mining region in the world.

I wonder what the powers that be have planned for this diamond? It's going to take some planning etc., in order to determine how to cut the diamond in multiple chunks.

ret5hd

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2. I wonder how THIS (below) reality...

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat Aug 24, 2024, 03:00 PM

Aug 24

will play out:

Clouds Passing

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3. Beautifully spoken

Reply to ret5hd (Reply #2)

Sat Aug 24, 2024, 06:58 PM

Aug 24

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