by Staff writer
In March, 2017, a Christian pastor unearthed a 706-carat diamond inwards Sierra Leone's Kono district, which is considered to hold out i of the world’s largest fossil oil precious rocks always found.
The 706-carat gem, named the "peace diamond", was handed over to the West African country's authorities to sell past times Pastor Emmanuel Momoh.
The Rapaport Group, an international diamond trading network, volition auction the jewel for gratis inwards hopes that it volition fix an example for other diamond sales to produce goodness the countries from which they come, said chairman Martin Rapaport.
"This diamond is going to assist the poorest people inwards the world. It stimulates the manufacture to intend nigh what they're selling," Rapaport told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
A kickoff auction for the egg-sized stone cruel apartment inwards May when Sierra Leone rejected the highest bid of $7.8 million.
It hopes to earn to a greater extent than at a novel auction inwards New York on Dec 4.
More than 50% of the proceeds volition straight fund build clean water, electricity, schools, medical facilities, roads, together with to a greater extent than inwards Sierra Leone, peculiarly inwards the hamlet of Koryardu where the diamond was found, the Rapaport Group said inwards a statement.
Diamonds fuelled a decade-long civil state of war inwards Sierra Leone, ending inwards 2002, inwards which rebels forced civilians to mine the stones together with bought weapons alongside the proceeds, leading to the term 'blood diamonds'.
The UN lifted a ban on diamond exports from Sierra Leone inwards 2003, only the multi-million dollar sector is yet plagued past times smuggling. Sumber http://www.dnbstories.com/
In March, 2017, a Christian pastor unearthed a 706-carat diamond inwards Sierra Leone's Kono district, which is considered to hold out i of the world’s largest fossil oil precious rocks always found.
The 706-carat gem, named the "peace diamond", was handed over to the West African country's authorities to sell past times Pastor Emmanuel Momoh.
The Rapaport Group, an international diamond trading network, volition auction the jewel for gratis inwards hopes that it volition fix an example for other diamond sales to produce goodness the countries from which they come, said chairman Martin Rapaport.
"This diamond is going to assist the poorest people inwards the world. It stimulates the manufacture to intend nigh what they're selling," Rapaport told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
A kickoff auction for the egg-sized stone cruel apartment inwards May when Sierra Leone rejected the highest bid of $7.8 million.
It hopes to earn to a greater extent than at a novel auction inwards New York on Dec 4.
More than 50% of the proceeds volition straight fund build clean water, electricity, schools, medical facilities, roads, together with to a greater extent than inwards Sierra Leone, peculiarly inwards the hamlet of Koryardu where the diamond was found, the Rapaport Group said inwards a statement.
Diamonds fuelled a decade-long civil state of war inwards Sierra Leone, ending inwards 2002, inwards which rebels forced civilians to mine the stones together with bought weapons alongside the proceeds, leading to the term 'blood diamonds'.
The UN lifted a ban on diamond exports from Sierra Leone inwards 2003, only the multi-million dollar sector is yet plagued past times smuggling. Sumber http://www.dnbstories.com/