TIME Magazineのインスタグラム(time) - 8月19日 02時57分

Komba Johnbull had never seen a #diamond before. But the 16-year-old miner knew enough to understand that even a big find would be no larger than his thumbnail. So the yellow egg-shaped rock he found in March 2017 was unusual enough to merit a second opinion. The pit boss’s eyes widened when he saw the stone. “Put it in your pocket,” he whispered. “Keep digging.” Johnbull kept working until nightfall, pausing occasionally to grip the heavy stone in his fist. Could it be? Weighing 709 carats, it was the third largest diamond ever unearthed in #SierraLeone, and the 15th largest in the world. “We thought we would become the richest persons in the world,” Johnbull, photographed at his home in Freetown in March, told @arynebaker. “People were telling me that it would sell for $50, $70 million.” It didn’t—Johnbull and four other diggers each eventually got $115,000 from the $6.5 million sale. His mining sponsor took it to a government representative and it was later put up for public auction with a promise that a portion of the proceeds—exactly 15%—would help provide new roads, schools, electricity and clean water systems around Koryardu, the village in Kono district where Johnbull found the stone. This is the first known case of a significant percentage of a diamond’s true market value going to the people who found it and not dealers or middlemen. Read the full story on what it meant for Johnbull and the industry on TIME.com. Photograph by @tommy.trenchard—@panospictures for TIME

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