A massive 813-carat diamond from a mine in Botswana has been sold for a record breaking $63 million by a Canadian mining firm, Lucara. This diamond, named Lesedi la Rona is in the shape of a tennis ball, thus making it the second largest found diamond in the world closely following the largest diamond ever found was in South Africa in 1905. The diamond was 3,106 carats and was cut into nine stones that are now a part of the British Crown jewels.

“Not only is the rough superlative in size and quality, but no rough even remotely of this scale has ever been offered before at public auction,” David Bennett of Sotheby’s had revealed to CNN Money.

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