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| AdventureGuide | Diamond prospecting and exploring Colorado/Wyoming | 0 | Jun 22 2009, 6:23 PM EDT by AdventureGuide | ||||
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If you want to take an adventure tour this year that is UNIQUE come with Dan Hausel and I to the state line district.
This field trip is the most affordable geology adventure of it's kind offered this year in the United States! July 22-25... don't miss out on this one! We provide the lodging, meals, and lectures. We'll show you where to look and what it is you are looking at! More DIAMONDS here than in Murfreesboro Arkansas! Take a look, then call me to make your reservations! 303-884-9404 http://www.learngoldprospecting.com/index.cfm?var_file=fieldtrips/2009/gem-gold-fieldtrip.cfm Let me know you found us on the Travelchannel.com site... Happy Trails, Johnny Walker the Adventure Guide
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| DiamondProspector | diamonds (page: 1 2) | 39 | May 29 2009, 4:37 PM EDT by Petronut | ||||
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1- DIAMONDS in Colorado & Wyoming. Start out by visiting the Great Diamond Hoax site at Diamond Peak in northwestern Colorado. In 1871, two prospectors salted a sandstone outcrop with several pounds of diamonds, rubies & sapphires & swindled Civil war generals, two presidential candidates, a congressman and other investors. More than 100 years later, I found the site with another geologist & panned out 4 diamonds, 17 rubies and 23 garnets left by the scam artists (find the approximate location by searching for ‘Diamond Field Draw, CO on Google Earth) (see: http://GemHunter.webs.com).
Next, select (CEDAR MOUNTAIN ,Wyoming on Google Earth). Butcherknife Draw is located to the northeast of Cedar Mountain and has dozens of anthills with fabulous Cape Ruby (garnet) & Cape Emerald (diopside) & diamond (http://gemstonehunter.blogspot.com/2008/12/cape-rubies-cape-emeralds-garnets.html). Some of these gems are similar to those used to salt the Great Diamond Hoax area. Finally, select VIRGINA-DALE, CO in Google Earth). This will take you right to the middle of the largest diamondiferous kimberlite district in the US and potentially one of the largest in the world. In 1960, kimberlite was accidentally discovered here, but it was not until 1975 that it was accidentally discovered by the USGS. During sample preparation, a carborundum grinding wheel was carved by tiny diamonds from a rock collected from one of the State Line kimberlites. Since then, more than 130,000 diamonds were recovered from microdiamonds to a 28.3 carat gemstone. The district has fabulous specimens of kimberlite along with gem-quality pyrope garnet (Cape Ruby) and gem-quality chromian diopside (Cape Emerald). In the last couple of years, I found another 200+ kimberlites in this region. Many appear like impact features. (see: http://discussionsondiamonds.blogspot.com).
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| DiamondProspector | Finding Diamonds and other gemstones | 10 | Apr 30 2009, 8:46 PM EDT by AdventureGuide | ||||
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Just came across a new book on Booksurge (and Amazon) which describes some fabulous gem localities including opals >100,000 carats, iolite >1 million carats and more. I followed up on a couple of localities and I have a few thousand peridots, garnets and emeralds. HIGHLY recommended - Gems, Minerals & Rocks – A Guide for Rock Hounds, Prospectors & Collectors
(http://wygemstones.blogspot.com) The book even describes ways to use the internet to find diamond deposits. http://gemstonehunter.blogspot.com/ http://discussionsondiamonds.blogspot.com/
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| aubreyreynolds9@gmai | Blood Diamonds | 0 | Feb 14 2009, 5:33 PM EST by aubreyreynolds9@gmai | ||||
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Time Magazine Article; Not all red diamonds are natural - some are tainted with blood
Diamonds may be a girl's best friend, but not if that girl happens to have had both her hands chopped off by Sierra Leone rebels who're financed by the little gems. You'd think this was information that De Beers, the 500-pound gorilla of the diamond industry, would want to keep as far as possible from the minds of young lovers shopping for an adornment to symbolize their commitment. And you'd be wrong. De Beer's, in fact, wants every diamond shopper to know that the industry has sustained years of violence that has claimed tens of thousands of lives and limbs in Angola, the Congo, Liberia and Sierra Leone by turning a blind eye to the origins of the stones that eventually make it into the jewelry stores — and the reason is that the South African corporation, which controls almost two thirds of the world's diamond supply, has decided to change its ways. |
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| goldfla | Anyone Hunt Diamonds In Wyoming? | 8 | Nov 14 2008, 1:47 PM EST by karuk | ||||
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Thread started: May 25 2008, 5:03 PM EDT
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S. of Laramie, in the Medicine Bow Range, all the signs are there for a big strike . . .
http://www.dotsub.com/home/user/index.php?target=8357 Click "Diamond Hunters" for a brief exploration film on the area in question.
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| treasureseaker1 | Diamonds | 1 | Dec 28 2007, 5:30 AM EST by ModerndayEdison | ||||
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I have never hunted for diamonds and I'm sure it takes time and skill but if you are one of the lucky one's to find one, what do you do with it?I know you bring the diamond to the building and they check it out . I know most places you keep what you find but, do they buy them if you would like to sell it?
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