Lesedi la Rona diamond, the size of a tennis ball, could fetch $90M

Image Courtesy of Donald Bowers/Getty Images for Sotheby's/Associated Press
Image Courtesy of Donald Bowers/Getty Images for Sotheby’s/Associated Press

By The Associated Press, May 4, 2016 

Rock unearthed in Botswana mine owned by Canada’s Lucara Diamond Corporation

It’s a rock for the ages.

A three-billion-year-old diamond the size of a tennis ball — the largest discovered in over a century — could sell for close to $90 million Cdn, auctioneer Sotheby’s said Wednesday.

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