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A Canadian mining company has found what's thought to be the second-largest diamond ever in Botswana, measuring a whopping 1,111 carats almost as big as a tennis ball. Here's a look at some of the biggest diamonds ever found, and sold.

Canadian mining company finds giant gem that joins the list of world's largest diamonds

Thomson Reuters Posted: Nov 19, 2015 7:33 PM EST | Last Updated: November 20, 2015

Tennis ball-sized diamond 2ndbiggest ever

Vancouver-based mining company Lucara Diamond Corp.has found what's thought to be the second-biggest gem quality diamond ever at its mine in Botswana.

The stone, which measures65 by 56 by 40 millimetres in size about as big as a tennis ball weighs awhopping 1,111 carats, or222 grams (a carat equals one fifth of a gram).

Biggest since the Crown jewel gems

The TSX-listed miningcompanysaidit found the record-setting stoneon Monday,the biggestgem-quality diamond pulled from the earthsince the famedCullinanstone, found in South Africa in 1905. The Cullinan weighed over 3,000 carats before it was cut up, the largest pieces of which were named the stars of Africa andwentinto the British Crown jewels.

Queen Elizabeth attends the opening of Parliament at the Palace of Westminster in May. Gems cut from the Cullinan diamond are among the Crown jewels. (Eddie Mulholland/Getty)

They found 2 more giants, too

The 1,111-carat monster wasn't the only huge diamond Lucara found.On Thursday, the mining company announced it had pulled out two more:one measuring 813 carats the sixth-largest ever recovered and anothermeasuring 374 caratsin the same vein.

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In the market?

The flawless, 60-caratoval-cut Pink Staris the largest known vivid pink diamond, andat the time of its sale by Sotheby's in 2013commanded the highest price for an auctioned gem ever. The buyerwasn't able to come up with the$83 million US he bid, though, so the jewel remains in the auction house's inventory.

Once in a Blue Moon

Earlier this month,Sotheby's put the 12.03-caratBlue Moon the largest cushion-cut vivid blue diamond to appear at auctionon the blockin Geneva. It sold for a record-setting $48.5 million USto a Hong Kong billionaire (convicted of bribery and money laundering last year inMacau) who renamed it the Blue Moon of Josephine, after his seven-year-old daughter.

For the Love of God

If single gems aren't your thing, take a look at this work sculptedby British artist Damien Hirst. Titled For the Love of God,this piececonsisting of a platinum casthuman skull encrusted with over 8,000 diamondsincluding the pink,pear-shaped Skull Star Diamond set in the forehead sold for $100 million to an anonymous buyer in 2007. It was on display at the Tate Modern in London in 2011 andinDoha, Qatar, in 2013.