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CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) - There's lucky: Finding a diamond when you're a young miner sweating it out in the west African forests of Guinea. And there's too lucky: finding a 182-carat stone, that everyone - starting with the government of Guinea - wants a piece of.

Result: the stone - four times the size of the famous Hope diamond - was tucked away Monday deep in the vaults of Guinea's Central Bank, no pictures, please.

And the 25-year-old miner who found it, if not exactly in hiding, was making himself scarce. No interviews, please.

State radio in impoverished, mineral-rich Guinea announced the find last week. Guinea mining industry officials confirmed Monday that the newly dug-up stone - though not flawless - was a fortune in the rough.


``It's a quite brilliant diamond, of good enough quality despite having numerous veins. One thing is certain - it's worth millions of dollars,'' a top official with the Aredor mining company, Guinea's biggest diamond operation, told The Associated Press.


The Guinea gem is four inches by 1.2 inches high - roughly the size and shape of your average computer mouse.

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Ná glac pioc comhairle gan comhairle ban.

O Autumn. Laden with fruit, and stained
With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit
Beneath my shady roof, there thou may'st rest,
And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe;
And all the daughters of the year shall dance,
Sing now the lusty song of fruits and flowers.
-William Blake-


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