Indebted Indian laborer finds life-changing $100,000 diamond

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Home Panorama Indebted Indian laborer finds life-changing $100,000 diamond 31-07-2024 01:18 PM Ammon News - A debt-ridden laborer in central India said his family’s life has been “changed forever” after he unearthed a 19.22-carat diamond worth almost $100,000. Raju Gond normally makes about $4 a day taking whatever work comes his way to provide for his large family, working in fields or diamond mines in his home state of Madhya Pradesh, or as a tractor driver for a wealthier farmer. But the 40-year-old and his younger brother Rakesh sometimes pay $9.50 a day to dig for gold in a 64-square-meter (690-square-foot) plot of government land. Anupam Singh, the official diamond examiner, took hold of the diamond and had it weighed. “This is a white diamond of 19.22 carat,” he told CNN. It was valued at about $95,500. CNN

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Indebted Indian laborer finds life-changing $100,000 diamond

31-07-2024 01:18 PM

Ammon News - A debt-ridden laborer in central India said his family’s life has been “changed forever” after he unearthed a 19.22-carat diamond worth almost $100,000.

Raju Gond normally makes about $4 a day taking whatever work comes his way to provide for his large family, working in fields or diamond mines in his home state of Madhya Pradesh, or as a tractor driver for a wealthier farmer.

But the 40-year-old and his younger brother Rakesh sometimes pay $9.50 a day to dig for gold in a 64-square-meter (690-square-foot) plot of government land.

Anupam Singh, the official diamond examiner, took hold of the diamond and had it weighed. “This is a white diamond of 19.22 carat,” he told CNN. It was valued at about $95,500.

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