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Lucara Diamonds Shine at Oscars
Feb 28, 2017 3:26 AM
By Joshua Freedman
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RAPAPORT... Charlize Theron stole the attention of jewelry observers at Sunday’s
Academy Awards with a mammoth pair of earrings featuring diamonds from the
Karowe mine in Botswana.
The actress attended the Oscars ceremony in Hollywood wearing
Chopard diamond drop earrings with a total weight of 59.9 carats set in
18-carat white gold. One earring featured a 26-carat heart-shaped diamond, the
other a 25-carat pear-shaped stone, media reports said.
The earrings were part of Chopard’s Garden of Kalahari
collection, which comprises 23 polished diamonds. They were cut from a
341.9-carat rough diamond, the Queen of Kalahari, which Lucara Diamond
Corporation extracted from its Karowe mine in April 2015. The miner sold the rough
diamond for $20.6 million, or $60,114 per carat, three months later at an
exceptional-stone tender.
“We are clearly delighted that Charlize Theron chose to wear
part of the Garden of Kalahari to this year’s Oscars,” William Lamb, chief
executive officer of Lucara, said in an email to Rapaport News on Monday.
“We share [Chopard’s] commitment to sustainable operations and values, and we
look forward to building this vision and working with them in the future.”
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