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Man finds 2.2-carat diamond at Arkansas State Park
UPI ^
| 30 July 2019
| By Ben Hooper
Posted on 07/30/2019 1:20:02 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
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posted on
07/30/2019 1:52:15 PM PDT
by
ronniesgal
(so I wonder what his FR handle is????)
To: Unassuaged
You're probably thinking about blood diamonds, usually mined with slave labor in wartorn regions of the world.
I'd think the provenance of this diamond makes it safe.
-PJ
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posted on
07/30/2019 1:52:48 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
To: Robert A Cook PE
He told someone = Taxes. Only upon sale and he can deduct expenses (grin)!
23
posted on
07/30/2019 1:54:09 PM PDT
by
SES1066
(Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
To: Red Badger
To: Red Badger
I bet it loses a lot when cut.
My wife’s engagement ring was only 1/4 carat but it was a keepsake. I could not afford it so she paid for it. She also picked it out.
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posted on
07/30/2019 1:58:42 PM PDT
by
yarddog
To: Red Badger
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posted on
07/30/2019 1:59:21 PM PDT
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
To: bigbob
I dunno, googled up a 2 carat one in a ring for $8900.That came out of the mine as a considerably larger stone.
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posted on
07/30/2019 2:08:12 PM PDT
by
fso301
To: Red Badger
There are several parks that permit people to keep diamonds and gold found. Read something about a kid who found a really big nugget of gold.
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posted on
07/30/2019 2:16:56 PM PDT
by
mware
(RETIRED)
To: Track9
This is what the democrats hope to find in Detroit tonight. A shiny turd. Part of the evening festivities will entail debating which end is the "Clean End"!
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posted on
07/30/2019 2:21:12 PM PDT
by
ExSES
(the "bottom-line")
To: bigbob
Maybe you are right, the article says:
Lanik declined to share the estimated value, but even cut brown diamonds of similar size can be found on eBay for less than $1,000.
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posted on
07/30/2019 2:25:01 PM PDT
by
Unassuaged
(I have shocking data relevant to the conversation!)
To: Red Badger
I think this is the same park where a boy found a 7 Caret brown diamond. The park charges $10 per person to scratch around in the dirt. They plow the dirt every other week ( I think) for fresh dirt.
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posted on
07/30/2019 2:27:19 PM PDT
by
mware
(RETIRED)
To: Political Junkie Too
A bit more reading shows you are correct, thanks!
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posted on
07/30/2019 2:27:42 PM PDT
by
Unassuaged
(I have shocking data relevant to the conversation!)
To: mware
I would go right after a rain.
That’s how I found arrowheads as a kid during spring plowing season...................
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posted on
07/30/2019 2:31:10 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
To: yarddog
Dang! Why didn’t I think of that!??!?!?!?!..................
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posted on
07/30/2019 2:32:09 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
To: Sirius Lee; All
"Ah yes, the [polished] turd of the diamond world."
As a Diamond Collector AND a Chocolate Lover, I tried really, REALLY hard to like that stone, but you're right - Ug-Lee! I DO give Le Vian Bonus Points for some brilliant marketing, though!
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posted on
07/30/2019 2:40:37 PM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.~Alfred Austin)
To: Buckeye McFrog
See Post #35. I resisted, LOL!
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posted on
07/30/2019 2:42:21 PM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.~Alfred Austin)
To: mware
When California prospecting first took off, a few lucky 49ers found boulders of almost solid gold in the streams. Alluvial gold.
To: Freedom4US
In the late ‘70s folks were checking old tailings piles near Liberty, WA, for gold chunks that were too big to pass through the screens at the mills
To: Red Badger
Wait. Was it a diamond? Pff, yea, it’s mine. Lost it right in that area.
To: Red Badger
I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed, but I once was a science teacher in public schools.........how does a diamond have its edges worn smooth? If it is harder than all other materials?
Enquiring minds want to know.........
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posted on
07/30/2019 7:24:02 PM PDT
by
Arlis
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