Lucara owned a 40% share of the AK6 kimberlite project (now the Karowe mine) in Botswana.

[8] Other operations include the Mothae diamond project in Lesotho, where kimberlite processing began in June 2010,[9] and where a 53.5 carat diamond has already been discovered;[10] the Kavango project in Namibia;[11] and planned mines and applications for mining licenses in Zimbabwe, Cameroon, and Botswana.

[13] The type IIa diamond[14] was found in the company's Karowe mine in north-central Botswana.

[15] All the stones came from the AK6 pipe opened 18 months earlier, it has since yielded over 1 million carats of diamonds.

[19] The Lesedi was later surpassed as the world's second largest diamond by a 2,492-carat piece that was also discovered at the Karowe mine in August 2024.