'Biggest Diamond Ever' Is Found In South Africa

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 8-28-2007 | Sebastien Berger

[Jeff Chandler]

Do it right:

Biggest. Diamond. Ever.

[abb]

http://www.edwardjayepstein.com/diamond/prologue.htm
THE DIAMOND INVENTION
Edward Jay Epstein

[Uncle George]

Hey, the guy that found this stone could have painted it black, put on a wire handle and smuggled it out as a “LUNCH PAIL”

[ElkGroveDan]

That dude is getting some tonight — probably tomorrow night too.

[Pajama Blogger]

[skimask]

I read that recently. A very interesting article.

[SpaceBar]

I say BS judging by the photo. There’s nothing diamond-like about it. No matrix, no greasy luster or characteristic secondary face growth or pits, no internal flaws, and looks like a sawn and polished chunk of glass.

[geopyg]

Sure hate to smuggle that one of the mine the typical way!

[Robert A Cook PE]

Geo-illogical ping!

Seems that that they COULD NOT argue with a real diamond - cut, semi-cut and polished, or “found” in the rock semi - polished.

Biggest diamond ever?

[oneamericanvoice]

Large, green, smooth sided, unblemished by a garage grinder....kryptonite?

[aruanan]

Here is a picture of some rough alluvial diamonds. They exhibit a wide variety of colors, shapes, sizes, and degrees of smoothness.

[aruanan]

Somewhere around here I have a fractured octohedral looking stone I found in a load of river gravel in the Dominican Republic. It’s sort of taffy colored and glossy. It’s about the size of a tennis ball. I can’t abrade it with a sand wheel, but I can grind it with a diamond wheel; however, it’s not as hard as the diamond I use to shape the sandwheel. Using that on a diamond wheel will just dull the diamond wheel.

[Publius6961]

BUMP!

[muawiyah]

Problem with your analysis is that no one has ever before found a diamond that size.

They may have entirely different characteristics from the small, mashed, crashed, and broken bits and pieces we are all used to.

[beethovenfan]

Bury it again quick! It’s CARBON!! (gasp)

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

My purchace bid is in for $1.98.

[MHGinTN]

I wonder how many pounds that that thing weighs?

[freekitty]

I want it.

[freekitty]

I don’t want it if it’s not real.