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LUCARA FOUNDER AND FORMER CHAIRMAN AND DIRECTOR LUKAS H. LUNDIN PASSES AWAY
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n \n LUCARA FOUNDER AND FORMER CHAIRMAN AND DIRECTOR LUKAS H. LUNDIN PASSES AWAY\n \n \n /* Style Definitions */\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Canada NewsWire\n \n \n \n \n \n \n VANCOUVER, BC\n \n \n ,\n \n \n July 27, 2022\n \n \n /CNW/ - (TSX: LUC) (BSE: LUC) (LUC – Nasdaq Stockholm) Lucara Diamond Corp. (\"Lucara\" or the \"Company\") regrets to announce the death of Company founder and former Chairman and member of the Board of Directors, Mr.\n \n Lukas H. Lundin\n \n , in\n \n Geneva, Switzerland\n \n on\n \n July 26, 2022\n \n at the age of 64, following a two-year battle with brain cancer.\n \n Please view PDF version\n \n \n \n Over the past 40 years,\n \n Lukas Lundin\n \n was the driving force behind the tremendous success of The Lundin Group of Companies. Lukas started his career in the international energy and mining sectors in the early 1980s working side-by-side with his father, the late\n \n Adolf H. Lundin\n \n .\n \n \n Under the leadership of Lukas and his brother Ian, and in close cooperation with the rest of the Lundin family, the Lundin Group of Companies has grown into an internationally recognized group of energy and mining companies with operations around the globe, employing more than 15,000 people and creating opportunities for tens of thousands more. The 11 companies that make up the Lundin Group of Companies have a combined market capitalization in excess of\n \n USD 11 billion\n \n .\n \n \n \n Lukas Lundin\n \n founded Lucara along with partners Eira Thomas and\n \n Catherine McLeod-Seltzer\n \n in 2007, and he served as a director and Chairman of the Board until\n \n May 2022\n \n . In 2010, Lucara acquired the AK06 kimberlite in\n \n Botswana\n \n and advanced the project through feasibility and construction, commencing open pit production at the Karowe diamond mine in 2012. The Karowe mine is renowned for its production of large, high quality, type IIA diamonds and is the only diamond mine in recorded history to have ever recovered three diamonds in excess of 1,000 carats each.\n \n \n \n Lukas Lundin's\n \n sons Harry, ...