{"id":4696,"date":"2014-08-06T19:59:57","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T12:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4696"},"modified":"2014-08-06T20:00:25","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T13:00:25","slug":"198-carat-diamond-found-in-lesotho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/198-carat-diamond-found-in-lesotho\/","title":{"rendered":"198-carat diamond found in Lesotho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maseru &#8211; A 198-carat white diamond of excellent quality has been discovered in Lesotho, mining firm Gem Diamonds announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The stone was found in the Letseng mine in the kingdom&#8217;s northern Maluti mountains in July, the firm said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This exceptional white, high-quality diamond displays no florescence and is expected to achieve an exceptional price when sold this year,&#8221; the company said.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Lesotho News\" href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/industry\/high-quality-198-carat-diamond-found-in-lesotho\/articleshow\/39685461.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maseru &#8211; A 198-carat white diamond of excellent quality has been discovered in Lesotho, mining firm Gem Diamonds announced Tuesday. The stone was found in the Letseng mine in the kingdom&#8217;s northern Maluti mountains in July, the firm said in a statement. &#8220;This exceptional white, high-quality diamond displays no florescence and is expected to achieve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[3443,258,256,3445,3448,4717,1407,3446,3447,1410,257,254,4693,3444],"class_list":["post-4696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-198-carat-white-diamond","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-gem-diamonds","tag-high-quality-diamond","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-letseng-mine","tag-maluti-mountains","tag-maseru","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa","tag-white-diamond"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}