Lesotho Diamond Brokers, Scottsdale, Arizona USA & Sandton,South Africa
Lesotho Diamond Brokers Pty Limited was founded in the Kingdom of Lesotho in 1978 by John, and Marla, Taylor. They opened their first office in the capital city of Maseru by buying diamonds from the local diggers. John would export diamonds to Johannesburg, South Africa and sell them to expert diamond cutters. John developed friendships with many local diamond diggers and they would bring Lesotho diamonds from the mountain diggings to have John broker their diamonds for them. These acts blossomed into joint ventures with large, and medium, sized diamond mining companies along with export companies in Lesotho, South Africa, Angola, West Africa and the Congo.
Lesotho Diamond Brokers, Scottsdale, Arizona has owned and operated diamond mines in South Africa and Lesotho since 1991. We presently have joint ventures with large and medium size diamond mining and export companies in South Africa, Lesotho, The Congo and West Africa.
Our Company has been importing and exporting Gem Quality Rough Diamonds and Polished Diamonds from the Lesotho Diamond Brokers, South Africa and many other African countries since 1978
John O. Taylor, 1972, My first diamond office in Merriam, Kansas. USA
Princess Randi Mya, holding two 50 carat diamonds each, top white and fancy cognac brown, Kingdom of Lesotho 1991
World Largest Dice cut diamonds 131.71 carat, known as the "Black Monte Carlo Diamond"
World's largest Black Rough Diamond 3,167 carats, property of Geologyin.com
The USA Postage stamp, (commissioned by John O. Taylor) acknowledging the 124.51 carat natural yellow rough diamond mined in South Africa purchased by Lesotho Diamond Brokers, it was fashioned in Antwerp, Belgium as a 51 carat VVS1, Intense Fancy and a USA Master diamond cutter put a final cut/polished the gem diamond to a GIA certified Flawless, Intense Fancy Yellow gem that was later purchased for an undisclosed amount and named the "Golden Eye Diamond" by a US Multi-Millionaire.
We have brokered diamonds from South West and West Africa. We also exported gem quality rough diamonds from Moscow from 1991 thru 1996.
We are black empowerment company in South Africa and we are licensed to import and export Gem Quality Rough and Polished Diamonds!!
Our Executive Chairman Mr. John Obern Taylor is the first American citizen and first ever African American to become a licensed Diamond Dealer and Exporter in Southern Africa. For the past 34 years, Mr. Taylor has served discerning and private diamond clientele spanning all the continents of the whole world.
Lesotho Diamond Brokers, Arizona, USA
- Lesotho Diamond Brokers & Mines Limited, South Africa
- Lesotho Diamond Brokers & Mines Limited, Lesotho
If you would like buy diamonds through our company, you will need a minimum of US$1 million per single transaction. We will buy and export gem quality rough for you.
As a symbol of Mr John Obern Taylor’s attachment and appreciation of the warmth and nobility which the people of the Kingdom of Lesotho have come to represent in their goodwill and respectful treatment of foreigners (including business people), especially the royal hospitality which has been showered on him since his first day of stepping on the soil of Lesotho Diamond Brokers, Mr John Obern Taylor named his firm Lesotho Diamond Brokers & Mines (Pty) Ltd .
Lesotho Diamond Brokers, Arizona, USA remains a
boutique type exporting firm (exporters of rough diamonds and engages in mining operations on a medium scale). The firm has been growing from strength to strength and continues to do so. In 1992 Lesotho Diamond Brokers & Mines (Pty) Ltd became an official broker to the sole rough diamond exporting firm for the government of the Russian Federation.
In 1994 Lesotho Diamond Brokers & Mines (Pty) Ltd opened a representative office in Moscow to provide logistical support to its core business and offices in Arizona, Lesotho Diamond Brokers and the Republic of South Africa.
THE WORLDS LARGEST DICE In 2003
In 2003 we were honored to process and export the world’s largest dice cut, natural black diamond gem fashioned from a 300 carat rough diamond from the Congo. This gem was sold for a price of $5,350,000.