In a tender by Gem Diamonds, attracting world’s leading diamantaires, Johannesburg-based SAFDICO bought two large rough white diamonds from Gem Diamonds’ Letšeng mine in Lesotho, for a total of $22.7 million, or $59,833 per carat. The diamonds, as Gem Diamonds describes, are of top color and outstanding clarity and weigh 196 carats and 184 carats, respectively. %% SAFDICO, is partly owned by Laurence Graff, Brian Gutkin and Johnny Kneller. %% The sale also saw a 4.68 carat rough blue diamond being bought for $155,000 per carat, which Gem Diamonds describes is the highest price paid for a Letšeng. The tender which closed in Antwerp on November 24, realized an average price of $2,341 per carat, excluding the 196 carat and 184 carat sales.