TIME Magazineのインスタグラム(time) - 8月20日 01時16分

Diamond mining team sponsor Emmanuel Momoh stands where a new school in Koryardu, Sierra Leone, will be built with money from the sale of the “Peace Diamond.” Momoh is a local pastor who paid for a five-man team’s tools, food and medical care in exchange for a majority stake in whatever they found. In March 2017, 16-year-old miner Komba Johnbull discovered a 709-carat rock, the third largest #diamond ever unearthed in the country. Momoh took the diamond to a government representative, bypassing the usual smuggling route that is the way many major diamonds leave the country. In handing it over to the government, which had the right to 60% of the proceeds from its sale, Momoh knew he would lose the lion’s share of the diamond’s value. And he has no regrets, he told @arynebaker: “I did the right thing. I can be proud of that.” In return, the government put the diamond up for public auction and promised that a portion of the proceeds—exactly 15%—would help provide new roads, schools, electricity and clean water systems around Koryardu. In December, it sold to a British jeweler for $6.5 million. Momoh had dubbed it the Peace Diamond as a way to distance it from Sierra Leone’s gruesome past. “Our diamonds aren’t for war anymore. They are for development,” he says. “When the government utilizes the money they took from the diamond to develop a village, the whole world will see that, indeed, diamonds can make the world a better place.” Read the full story on TIME.com. Photograph by @janehahn for TIME

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