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Gold/Mining/Energy : Twin Mining (formerly Twin-Gold)
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To: Letmebe Frank who wrote (138)1/31/2002 7:25:37 AM
From: Bob Fairchild   of 613
 
From the Nature of Diamonds:

In 1903, far from the Kimberley area, Thomas Cullinan, heading the Premier Syndicate, opened a kimberlite mine that would produce a quarter of the diamonds greater than 400 carats: it was named the Premier mine. It was a pit only 9 metres deep on January 26, 1905 when the mine's surface manager was informed of a stone protruding from the mine's wall and glinting in the sun's rays. He climbed to the point and pried out a phenomenal colorless diamond the size of a man's fist, weighing 3,106 carats (621.2 grams or 1.37 pounds) with the recorded exclamation, "Mr. Cullinan will be pleased when he sees this!"
I don't know if this was the largest diamond ever found but still a long ways away from equally the size of a "D" cup !
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