Diamond found in Arkansas park

[snowmom]

this field keeps producing. Would be a fun thing to do....... wish I'd known about it when I was in Ar. 10 years ago...

www.foxnews.com/us/2015/06/27/colorado-finds-852-carat-diamond-in-arkansas-state-park/?intcmp=latestnews

[Fossilman]

SCORE!!

[tims]

I like her nail polish, gives her some rockhound street cred.

[Drummond Island Rocks]

I read about that the other day and was blown away that it was her first visit to the park. Lots of people spend several weeks there every year and don't do nearly as well.

Chuck

[snowmom]

note she was at the edge of the park? I guess it pays to go the road less traveled. Another large one was found last year, and I think it was found near the edge too. Stands to reason most people would not get quite to the edges in their searches. I'd like to try it some day.

[broseph82]

snowmom The edges are definitely less worked. Gotta bring someone with you cause it can be a boring place. I went all around the property looking for agates. Meh. I talked to a local and he said he goes all the time and has found nothing. He also was digging right next to a natural spring hole and said youd go right through it if one had stepped into the hole. Gotta dig and hit the black sand and river type pebbles he said.

[Tom]

The diamond is being, or actually has already been cut by a guy from the town I live in. Our club is going on a tour of his shop this year.

www.thestarphoenix.com/Prince+Albert+diamond+cutter+work+Esperenza+gemstone/11317531/story.html

[orrum]

U know they catch people salting the dirt and then finding the dismond. This way they legitimize the diamond and it is then not a blood diamond. They get a certificate that it's a Ark. diamond.

[snowmom]

Orrum, really? I guess that's possible... hadn't thought of that trick. Lowdown... how could they prove it? Couldn't a person tell a blood diamond from an Arkansas diamond the same way we can tell different kinds of (name your gem, mineral or rock)origin from each other by their appearance and matrix? Would the guy who cut the diamond know to tell an Ark or Canadian or African diamond apart? gemstones are something I know less than nothing about. interesting....

[orrum]

Blood diamond refers to the fact that a lot of human blood is spilled mining and getting them Snowmom. Not the color. Yes some diamonds could be identified but.....

[snowmom]

Oct 11, 2015 1:44:34 GMT -5 Tom said:

The diamond is being, or actually has already been cut by a guy from the town I live in. Our club is going on a tour of his shop this year.

www.thestarphoenix.com/Prince+Albert+diamond+cutter+work+Esperenza+gemstone/11317531/story.html

thanks, that's good to hear 'the rest of the story'. maybe later videos and the info on the sale of the diamond... the plot thickens.   Now Orrum has me wanting to learn a lot more about the people who found the diamonds in the past.   I probably read too many mystery books.

[snowmom]

Oct 11, 2015 5:54:34 GMT -5 orrum said:

Blood diamond refers to the fact that a lot of human blood is spilled mining and getting them Snowmom. Not the color. Yes some diamonds could be identified but.....

I do understand about blood diamonds, I just meant we recognize emeralds and rubies, sapphires, etc as being unique to various areas where they were mined, even sometimes coming from a specific mine. I wondered if people who know their stuff couldn't do the same with diamonds?

[orrum]

Don't know but they have caught a few folks doing the switcheroo but it's on smaller diamonds.