Posted on 08/22/2019 8:08:33 AM PDT by Red Badger
I would leave that uncut and have it mounted as a solitaire necklace.
Todd Hoffman from the show Gold Rush should try there next, lol. It’s been said that he couldn’t find gold or diamonds even in a jewelry store!
But I don’t have to walk my diamonds in the rain and snow.
Been there. Done THAT, LOL!
LOL! It’s the anticipation, not the find, I guess? ;)
There are enough to make a profit. The Debeers family paid off some Congressmen to make it a state park. The book “Blood Diamonds” (no relation to the movie) goes into detail about how diamonds are one of the most common gemstones. The Debeers cartel spent decades going around the world either buying or otherwise locking up any new pipes that had commercial potential.
That happened when the Arkansas pipe was discovered.
That’s true. :)
she’d be crazy to sell it ...
“Despite the color won’t be much value”
the real value is in the story of discovery she can tell for the rest of her life ...
Odd that the story doesn’t mention the value of the diamond.......
The ONLY (currently known) real diamond that is worth MORE in its uncut/unpolished state than it would be as a cut/polished gem is THE EISENHOWER DIAMOND, that was found at the CRATER of DIAMONDS STATE PARK by a retired TX teacher about 1960. - It looks quite like the profile of GEN & POTUS Eisenhower & is currently “on long-term loan” to the Smithsonian Natural History Museum.- The teacher had it mounted in a pendant & wore it every day, on a heavy gold chain, until her passing from old age some years ago.
(Coincidentally, our whole family was there the very next day & found NOTHING in over 6 hours except some “pretty rocks”, including a near “fist-sized” cluster of quartz crystals that I use as a paperweight on my desk.)
Yours, TMN78247
Well OK then.....So what was its worth?????????
The Eisenhower Diamond was appraised for insurance by State Farm’s underwriters for (I think I remember) 12,000.oo in 1965, according to an article in THE LONGVIEW MORNING JOURNAL. - I’ve seen nothing more about its “appraised value”, since way back then.
Yours, TMN78247
A bit of trivia: The MOST EXPENSIVE diamonds ever known are NOT “natural stones” but instead are “industrial grade diamonds”, made in a lab, out of pure carbon & using “great heat & pressure” by General Electric Corporation’s engineering department about 1970.
(GE executives feared that “the World was running out of industrial diamonds” & decided to see if diamonds could be “created” in the lab.)
The late Paul Walker worked for GE’s engineering shop in 1975 & brought one of the diamonds to a Scout meeting to show the Scouts of our troop. = It looked like a “thumb-sized” cream-colored piece of hard plastic.
(The Boy Scouts were “singularly unimpressed”.)
Paul said, “Well, I guess you could say that the company’s experiment was both a success & a failure, at the same time. YES, we succeeded in making real industrial diamonds BUT at a prohibitively high price.”
(After the meeting, I asked Paul what happened to the diamonds & he said that most of the stones were “given away” to museums, colleges, 2 were kept by GE’s engineering shop & a “few were given to GE executives as souvenirs”. He further said that, “We spent a great deal of money finding out that making diamonds was possible but TOO COSTLY to try again.”)
Yours, TMN78247
That’s true
They have a Gemologist on site, but he doesn’t evaluate a fined, just confirms it’s a diamond or what other mineral it is. There are Amethyst mines in the area too. A Jeweler does the evaluations as they have the equipment to look at the flaws, purity etc. Some are not valuable, others have been that were even bigger.
It’s a fun day to go dig even if you find nothing. We did it once but the drive was a bit much for us with 3 kids in tow.
As a longtime “rock hound”, I can tell you that the best time to go to The Crater of Diamonds is the day AFTER a driving rainstorm.
Even If you never find a diamond, there are some really nice mineral specimens of several EXCELLENT sorts available there.
Just my OPINION, TMN78247
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