Unearthed in South Africa by a female miner in 1967, the Lesotho diamond weighed in at a stunning 601 carats. After Winston purchased the stone, he cut it into eighteen diamonds, and offered to make a piece of jewelry out of one of the fragments for the female miner, but she declined. Lesotho I is the largest of the stones at just over 71 carats.
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