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552 Carat diamond Biggest in North America Found in Canada
A 552 Carat diamond, the BIGGEST in North America was located in the Northwest Terroritories of Canada. The diamond weighs twice as much as a tennis ball and is roughly the size of a chicken egg. That's what miners in Canada's Northwest Territories discovered this October: a huge, brilliantly yellow diamond, 552 carats in weight. For reference, that's about three-quarters the weight of a baseball, about twice the weight of a tennis ball, or, charmingly, the weight of about five mice. The color and texture of the diamond are a unique example of the journey that natural diamonds take...