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- Out of curiosity, 16-year-old miner Komba Johnbull picked it up and fingered its flat, pyramidal planes. Johnbull had never seen a diamond before, but he knew enough to understand that even a big find would be no larger than his thumbnail.
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Aug 10, 2023 · Out of curiosity, 16-year-old miner Komba Johnbull picked it up and fingered its flat, pyramidal planes. Johnbull had never seen a diamond before, but he knew enough to understand that even a big find would be no larger than his thumbnail.
Explore the incredible journey of Kamba Johnbull and Andrew Saffea, the young African duo who discovered Sierra Leone's 709-carat diamond. From the thrill of...
Aug 27, 2018 · Out of curiosity, 16-year-old miner Komba Johnbull picked it up and fingered its flat, pyramidal planes. Johnbull had never seen a diamond before, but he knew enough to understand that even a big find would be no larger than his thumbnail.
Weighing 709 carats, it was the third largest diamond ever unearthed in Sierra Leone, and the 15th largest in the world. “We thought we would become the richest persons in the world,” recalls Johnbull, speaking to TIME a year after the diamond was discovered.
Komba Johnbull used to spend his days digging in the mud in Sierra Leone. Then six years ago, he found a huge 709 carat diamond. It’s what miners like...
Dec 16, 2017 · In March this year, the 39-year-old walked into a diamond dealer’s store on a dusty street in Kono, a potholed backwater 225 miles east of Sierra Leone’s capital of Freetown. The dealer gasped audibly when Momoh pulled out the egg-sized rock.
