Gems
Chicken-Egg Sized Diamond Found in Canada's Frozen North
- The 552-carat diamond is North America’s biggest-ever stone
- Yellow diamond found at Diavik mine owned by Dominion, Rio
The biggest diamond ever found in North America has been unearthed by Dominion Diamond Mines and Rio Tinto Group at a mine in Canada’s frozen north.
The 552-carat yellow gem was found at the Diavik mine in the Northwest Territories, and is almost three times the size of the next largest stone ever found in Canada. While Diavik and the neighboring Ekati mine produce some very high quality diamonds, they’re not renowned for the sort of huge gems normally found in southern African mines.