(Rapaport) - Lucara Diamond Corporation President and CEO William Lamb faces a dilemma many mining executives would envy. After all, when the second- and sixth-largest diamonds in history are discovered in the same week at your sole mining operation, it changes how your company is perceived, and even how it sells. Lamb stresses that these diamonds are about a lot more than monetary value for both Botswana and Lucara. Instead, they have they have the potential to reaffirm Botswana’s status as the most important diamond mining - and de-facto trading – center.
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