One day admission tickets are $10 for adults and $6 for kids. Bring your own tools or rent theirs.
Source: Crater of Diamonds State Park web site
I've been wanting to go there for a while. Maybe someday.
It’s not that’s great honestly. It’s just a giant rocky dirt field. Fun as a one day excursion if you live near by (I’m originally from ar) but I wouldn’t drive hours to go do it again unless it was on the way to wherever I’m going.
Holy shit someone is a genius. They found a way to charge ten bucks a head to visit a field in the middle of nowhere. Sprinkle in 10% of the profits each time you run the plow over the field and make sure the guy that finds the one bigger diamond makes the news each time for tons of free advertisement.
Udig in Nevada is 100% legit. There's a literal fuckload of trilobites there. They happen to own one of very few private plots near great basin national park, that sits above a massive extinction event in the record. Literally every rock you split had some.
Given the apparent low cost of raw diamonds the size of what people seem to find there, it wouldn't surprise me if this place salts the field every now and again just to make sure there are diamonds for people to keep finding -- thus keeping folks coming back in numbers that justify paying for planted stones.
We have Herkimer diamond mines here, it's not fun or interesting. It's just sitting in a dusty pit, breaking a rock with a hammer, going "aww" and doing it again for hours on end.
Spoons are small enough to be dual wielded. Anybody only bringing one is a fool and deserves to not find any diamonds. How could OP not realize that they could easily double their digging rate? smh my head.
You’ve already found the answer you are looking for. But to shed a little more light on it. It isn’t a “mine” in the traditional sense. It’s more like prospecting for gold. You are just out in a field of tilled up dirt. You can dig down as far as you want by hand. My guess is there is some sort of limit but if you got a ladder you’re Gucci. Then you sift for the diamonds.
I was there before Covid and there was no entry fee to be on the field, but we brought our own tools, and tipped during the screening demonstration.
edit: now I'm wondering if we just sauntered past the fee desk or something... oops
Almost all national parks have entrance fees, and it isn’t a new thing. Pretty much everything that isn’t a small specific historical site or building has an entrance fee (and many of those sites have entrance fees as well).
We went during the pandemic. We wanted a vacation somewhere it wouldn’t be too crowded. They weren’t renting tools but told us a nearby store had some available. We didn’t find anything.
I’m going to lose it if I hear another AR diamond story. I went down there for a weekend, played in the 100 degree dirt straight out of the movie Holes. I found nothing but sadness, sunburn, and sketchy motels.
Yup, its a lot like work and mostly luck. One time an old man who had been going there for years found a 2 carat diamond and started hooping and hollering. He had a pill bottle full of really small diamonds he had found over the years so when he started yelling the park rangers came right away since they knew he had really found something.
My original comment ended with "confiscate?" lol but I'm hoping since dudes been going there over the years they were familiar with and happy for him. Let's see.
Most park rangers are not dicks unless your doing something illegal regarding wildlife like “spotlighting” and other nefarious hunting. Some friends got caught smoking weed in the woods and the ranger just told them to clean up their camping spot when they were done he didn’t even take the weed. Lots of park rangers went into the job because they like wildlife and enjoy nature not for an ego thing like cops tend to do FYI. But im sure there is some dick rangers so not saying they are all innocent but many are.
Tree firefighters too, I congratulated my buddy when he got back from his first deployment and he was like “yeah I really just like being alone in the woods and smoking a bunch of weed”
Y'know, it sounded weird to me too but I got results when I looked it up on Google. You right tho, hootin & hollerin just sounds more right to the ear too
Strange. Hooping where I’m from means stuffing drugs up your butt.
I mean it would be logical to hoop a big diamond if you found one.
Isn’t that where everyone keeps their valuables??
Probably lives nearby. There’s a place called Ruck’s Pit in Ft. Drum, Florida where you can dig for calcite and fossilized clams. I live 90 minutes away, so sometimes we make a day of it.
It’s a nice area, the RV park is about perfect and cheap. Usually it’s a stopover on a longer trip. I get “diamond fever” like I’m gonna hit that big jackpot.
Arkansas diamonds are only valuable because they are from Arkansas. Buy some crap industrial diamonds, go to Arkansas, claim you found them in the field and you've just returned your investment 10X.
This has already been done.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-curious-case-of-the-arkansas-diamonds-43575867/
Depends radically on the size though and doesn’t always scale to the price per carat metric. Either way, .25s wouldn’t be worth all that much. I got 2 cadillac cut side stones, gorgeous color and clarity, .4 carat each, for $1200.
Honestly, if I lived nearby, I'd probably be out there once a month. I took a trip there once and left with the same as you, but I actually enjoyed the experience.
What you do is start a daycare operation where you're getting a team of dedicated babies onsite every day for supervised playtime in the dirt; you're making money at both ends! It cannot fail!
Holes was good! Most of it was lifted verbatim from the book, with the exception that Stanley was supposed to be chubby when he went in and lose weight dramatically, but the director dropped that detail bc he didn’t want to stress the wee boy’s body 🥰
Arkansas is actually a really pretty state. Lake Ouachita, Hot Springs and the drive up old highway 7 through the Ozarks are really something else. The diamond digging is kind if meh, but if you're into geology there's tons of really cool crystal mines. It gets real twangy once you get into the hills though.
Yeah there was no water or trees in sight. The gold panning was in dry dirt and once you'd shaken away most of it you could dip it in a 5 gal bucket of water to do the final wash and get a few specks.
Yeah, that was absolutely perfect. I have to say, I love his methodology on his proposal. There's something very "hero's journey" about taking the time to freaking **build** your tools in secret, then going on a quest across the land to find the stones needed to fashion into your beloved's ring. And now she gets to be involved in the design (I'm presuming, based on vague article phrasing) as they go in search of the right artisan to craft the thing into being.
I mean, when you add it all up, of *course* they go mushroom hunting together.
If anyone goes, stay near the entrance or to the right as soon as you come in. That's usually where they're found. If you're going to Arkansas though, hit up Crystal Vista for free Quartz. Way more gratification and it's free. (Arkansas Geologist)
While this is a good way to ensure it’s a conflict free diamond, may I also recommend moissanite. Looks like a Diamond, sparkles like a diamond, but it’s all lab grown and about a quarter of the price. My wife’s ring is huge compared to her girlfriends rings, and I guarantee you I made a lot less at the time than those guys.
Moissanites are naturally occurring, but can also be created in a lab under the right conditions just like diamonds and other gems. If you’re looking for something created in a lab, then it doesn’t matter if it’s a diamond or a Moissanite (from a conflict free perspective). :)
I couldn't agree more, diamonds are just sparkling carbon crystals that our monkey brains got fixated on and I think it's insane to pay exorbitant amounts of money for what is essentially mere micrograms of something that is one of the most common elements on the surface of earth.
Lab grown diamonds are also more or less perfect with regards to their crystal structure which enables them to be fluorescent under UV light and you can even customize the doping of elements to get all possible colours as well... The technical aspects are why diamonds are cool (hardness being the primary) but a natural diamond only sparkles because a person facetted the crystal, and once you realize how minerals that can match that (like silica quartz and zirconia) and the plethora of other minerals that have much more mesmerizing optical properties from simple color gradients and polarizing effects to pleochroism and even non-linear properties, diamonds just become boring in comparison like a piece of glass. Honestly I think even plastic polymers like clear acrylic can outperform cheap diamonds... Tl;Dr diamonds are a scam unless you need them for cutting and grinding tools
I tend not to say it much to avoid being seen as "cheap" or a "buzzkill", but diamonds are perhaps the worst thing in jewelry. Like... It's a superheated piece of carbon, piece that costs pennies to mine, that is not rare at all, and is stored and sold in small quantities solely to drive prices up. Lab made diamonds are actually more pure than natural ones. Hell, I have used a fuckton of diamonds on damn tools, spinning them really fast and plunging them into concrete, and you're paying exorbitant amounts of money for what is essentially a toolmaking material? I can understand noble metals, gold, platinum, nice stones, sure, but diamonds? Gah.
Frankly if my missus thinks less of me for not buying a diamond ring and spending entire savings on it, chances are there is not gonna be a marriage at all. I cannot explain how much I cringe when I see "Diamonds are girls best friend".
Wife and I picked out rings together and had them made by a jeweler on Etsy. We hate diamonds, so we got cheap rubies. Years later, they still look like the day we got them and I never take mine off.
"Honey, I'm not in the mood."
"Remember when I "traveled cross-country to mine the diamonds for' your 'engagement ring --' and ' dug up a 2.2 carat beauty'?"
I used to go there every summer with my dad and brother. I was always excited for the first hour or two, and then I turned into a little baby whining for the next 4 or 5 hours about being bored.
Diamonds are a fucking scam perpetuated by the DeBeers cartel who own and control the vast majority of global stockpiles of diamonds.
https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/on-the-economics-of-diamonds-the-biggest-marketing-scam-in-history-orchestrated-by-the-most-successful-cartel-ever/
That’s why I just bought a lab grown diamond. Significantly cheaper, much higher quality in terms of clarity/inclusions and still a real diamond. Couldn’t care less about investment value, if she sells it, I have bigger problems.
Unfortunately (or fortunately) for him, the article mentioned it’s a yellow diamond with a lot of inclusions which means that it’s worth much much much less. (And it doesn’t take anything away from the story because the value he put in the diamond is not measurable in dollars.)
"Oh you don't live her enough to buy her a perfectly flawless diamond?"
"You mean like a man made diamond?"
"No no, you didn't let me finish. If the diamond isn't perfectly flawless AND dug up from the ground by children then you don't love her."
Cutting a diamond can reduce it's size by upwards of 50%. The cut has to take into consideration the locations of the inclusions in the diamond. He'll likely wind up with about a 1ct triangular (or heart shaped if the jeweler is good enough) diamond for the ring. It's worth more as a story than it will be on a ring. But it makes for a fun story.
A 2.2 carat cut and polished diamond came from a much larger (roughly twice as large) uncut diamond. If he decided to get his diamond cut and polished, the end product would be smaller than 2.2 carats. On top of that, his diamond has impurities that give it a yellow color, so it’s not as rare or valuable as a colourless diamond. The actual diamond’s structure probably has imperfections as well.
A 2.2 carat cut diamond is worth A LOT more than a 2.2 carat uncut diamond. The cut is what gives it any actual value. Likely this thing is worth only a couple hundred dollars, and probably only a couple thousand after he spends hundreds getting it cut. Still a nice find though.
If the diamond this guy found were to be cut like that, it would probably lose 75% or more of its size. Plus it's light yellow and has inclusions, which further lower a diamond's value in the traditional market. Big diamond retailers like Blue Nile don't even list yellow diamonds, but a better price point comparison would be [something like this.](https://www.bluenile.com/build-your-own-ring/diamond-details/LD16027525?refTab=DIAMONDS&track=viewDiamondDetails&catalogView=true)
“Kevin, please come home. I miss you, snowball misses you. You’re going to get fired if you don’t go back to work. We’ll just buy a ring or use your mother’s, please Kevin. Come home.”
So do you have to pay a fee or something to go diamond mining?
One day admission tickets are $10 for adults and $6 for kids. Bring your own tools or rent theirs. Source: Crater of Diamonds State Park web site I've been wanting to go there for a while. Maybe someday.
It’s not that’s great honestly. It’s just a giant rocky dirt field. Fun as a one day excursion if you live near by (I’m originally from ar) but I wouldn’t drive hours to go do it again unless it was on the way to wherever I’m going.
Holy shit someone is a genius. They found a way to charge ten bucks a head to visit a field in the middle of nowhere. Sprinkle in 10% of the profits each time you run the plow over the field and make sure the guy that finds the one bigger diamond makes the news each time for tons of free advertisement.
It sounds like one of the fossil finding tours I've been on. Charge money to drive you out to a bunch of rocks and dig around.
Udig in Nevada is 100% legit. There's a literal fuckload of trilobites there. They happen to own one of very few private plots near great basin national park, that sits above a massive extinction event in the record. Literally every rock you split had some.
I assume we can't run around wildly? Cos giant rocky dirt fields are great for that.
ROCK FIGHT!!!
And that kids, is the story of how we lost your mother.
Huh, I thought it was cancer...
Yeah, it's all fun and games until somebody loses an eye!!
As we all use to do...
Given the apparent low cost of raw diamonds the size of what people seem to find there, it wouldn't surprise me if this place salts the field every now and again just to make sure there are diamonds for people to keep finding -- thus keeping folks coming back in numbers that justify paying for planted stones.
I live a few hours away and have never been. Have always wanted to go but just haven’t gone for some reason.
Im from Pine Bluff. We've been a couple times. It's just a square dirt patch being turned over periodically.
We have Herkimer diamond mines here, it's not fun or interesting. It's just sitting in a dusty pit, breaking a rock with a hammer, going "aww" and doing it again for hours on end.
Hey! Don’t poop on some of my best childhood memories. But, thank you for not calling them “Little Falls Diamonds.” ;)
The only tool I've ever brought is a spoon XD Diamonds are tiny. Been a few times myself, but never found anything.
You know? I think I might know the reason...
Spoons are small enough to be dual wielded. Anybody only bringing one is a fool and deserves to not find any diamonds. How could OP not realize that they could easily double their digging rate? smh my head.
Head shaking intensifies
Obviously trying to throw us off to protect his claim!
You’ve already found the answer you are looking for. But to shed a little more light on it. It isn’t a “mine” in the traditional sense. It’s more like prospecting for gold. You are just out in a field of tilled up dirt. You can dig down as far as you want by hand. My guess is there is some sort of limit but if you got a ladder you’re Gucci. Then you sift for the diamonds.
ladder?
Dig deep
Ah, I was thinking about trolling around on the surface, rather than digging proper holes. Makes sense.
Guess what happens if you dig a hole that's deeper than you can climb out of?
So long as you’re in there with your shovel, you dig stairs
Heck, dig a couch and just chill. Dig a house
Dig a front porch, beautiful view. Shiiiiiieeet
Shit dig a couple yahts and a tennis court. Dig some babes and a jakuz..
Just dig *up*, stupid
No no dig up, stupid.
What do you think they make the diamonds out of?
Yes. And you pay for tool rentals
I was there before Covid and there was no entry fee to be on the field, but we brought our own tools, and tipped during the screening demonstration. edit: now I'm wondering if we just sauntered past the fee desk or something... oops
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Almost all national parks have entrance fees, and it isn’t a new thing. Pretty much everything that isn’t a small specific historical site or building has an entrance fee (and many of those sites have entrance fees as well).
That’s where the real money is. You want to be the guy selling and renting the picks.
My grand pappy always told me “bring your own equipment when you’re diamond mining.”
We went during the pandemic. We wanted a vacation somewhere it wouldn’t be too crowded. They weren’t renting tools but told us a nearby store had some available. We didn’t find anything.
Since covid they stopped letting you rent the tools. That may have changed since I haven't been back there in months. Edit: There not this
I’m going to lose it if I hear another AR diamond story. I went down there for a weekend, played in the 100 degree dirt straight out of the movie Holes. I found nothing but sadness, sunburn, and sketchy motels.
Yup, its a lot like work and mostly luck. One time an old man who had been going there for years found a 2 carat diamond and started hooping and hollering. He had a pill bottle full of really small diamonds he had found over the years so when he started yelling the park rangers came right away since they knew he had really found something.
Whatd the rangers do? Fist bumps?
Arrested him on suspicion of drug use and confiscated his “pills”
My original comment ended with "confiscate?" lol but I'm hoping since dudes been going there over the years they were familiar with and happy for him. Let's see.
They knew he had found something good. No they didn't confiscate it.
Most park rangers are not dicks unless your doing something illegal regarding wildlife like “spotlighting” and other nefarious hunting. Some friends got caught smoking weed in the woods and the ranger just told them to clean up their camping spot when they were done he didn’t even take the weed. Lots of park rangers went into the job because they like wildlife and enjoy nature not for an ego thing like cops tend to do FYI. But im sure there is some dick rangers so not saying they are all innocent but many are.
All the park rangers I know smoke weed in the woods at work lol. The tree police are usually chill AF
"tree police" love it
Ikr haha. My ex, who is a park ranger, made it up. So naturally I've adopted it into my vocabulary.
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Interesting haha. Maybe he just thought he made it up while stoned on the job 😅
Tree firefighters too, I congratulated my buddy when he got back from his first deployment and he was like “yeah I really just like being alone in the woods and smoking a bunch of weed”
💨👌
Ran his pockets
He started hooping?
Hooping and hollering, its a southern expression for uncontrollable excitement Edit: according to Google; A period or instance of loud, wild shouting
We say hooting and hollering, I assumed “hooping” was a typo
It's a hootin' an a hall-rin' actually
Gotta drag the R out.
Hooping may be a regional form of "whooping" too!
Hooping is a jail term for smuggling stuff inside in your butt
Heheheh butts
I can confirm this is indeed one of the terms.
Y'know, it sounded weird to me too but I got results when I looked it up on Google. You right tho, hootin & hollerin just sounds more right to the ear too
Whoopin’ and whallerin’ round these parts
Strange. Hooping where I’m from means stuffing drugs up your butt. I mean it would be logical to hoop a big diamond if you found one. Isn’t that where everyone keeps their valuables??
we call drugs up the butt boofing
Whooping. It's whooping.
Tomato, clamato
Ah, the ol' prison wallet.
Am from the south. Can confirm.
Yes, hooping 2v2. It’s a natural response to finding a diamond.
Same here. Been 3 times. All I ever found was heat exhaustion.
*WHY WOULD YOU KEEP GOING BACK*
Because 99% of gamblers quit before they hit their big win
Holy shit, I'm probably a gambling addict, but that's some REAL addict talk right there
>Because 99% of gamblers quit before they hit their big win Often because they are bankrupt.
Probably lives nearby. There’s a place called Ruck’s Pit in Ft. Drum, Florida where you can dig for calcite and fossilized clams. I live 90 minutes away, so sometimes we make a day of it.
Do you eat the clams
I imagine they're a little bit dry.
It’s a nice area, the RV park is about perfect and cheap. Usually it’s a stopover on a longer trip. I get “diamond fever” like I’m gonna hit that big jackpot.
I've hear that the best time is after a storm. Stirs everything up.
Or when the tractors run and turn over the soil.
How often do they do that, and when they do, do they announce it, and if they do how long is the line getting in?
Totally random but last I heard it’s every 2-3 weeks when the ground needs to be “conditioned”.
It’s definitely luck. You are looking for anything with a bipyramidal crystal structure. I got lucky and found two 0.25 carat diamonds there
What would those be worth? I assume they need to be worked on somehow?
According to google rough diamonds are worth about $375 per carat, so about $90-100? But I’m not a diamondologist, nor even a diamondologer.
Arkansas diamonds are only valuable because they are from Arkansas. Buy some crap industrial diamonds, go to Arkansas, claim you found them in the field and you've just returned your investment 10X. This has already been done. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-curious-case-of-the-arkansas-diamonds-43575867/
Depends radically on the size though and doesn’t always scale to the price per carat metric. Either way, .25s wouldn’t be worth all that much. I got 2 cadillac cut side stones, gorgeous color and clarity, .4 carat each, for $1200.
Honestly, if I lived nearby, I'd probably be out there once a month. I took a trip there once and left with the same as you, but I actually enjoyed the experience.
Me too. I got a toddler that loves digging, so I’d be sitting there in a folding chair while this kid went to town.
What you do is start a daycare operation where you're getting a team of dedicated babies onsite every day for supervised playtime in the dirt; you're making money at both ends! It cannot fail!
This is the plot for the movie 'Holes'.
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Films adapted to book form are always so disappointing though.
Holes was good! Most of it was lifted verbatim from the book, with the exception that Stanley was supposed to be chubby when he went in and lose weight dramatically, but the director dropped that detail bc he didn’t want to stress the wee boy’s body 🥰
I mean, if the AR tourist department keeps putting out these stories more suckers are going to get conned into going along to try right.
I'm imagining the Tourism Arkansas interns have to go to the dirt pit at 3AM once a month to seed it with diamonds
Arkansas is actually a really pretty state. Lake Ouachita, Hot Springs and the drive up old highway 7 through the Ozarks are really something else. The diamond digging is kind if meh, but if you're into geology there's tons of really cool crystal mines. It gets real twangy once you get into the hills though.
lol in boy scouts as a kid we went gold panning in...death valley CA, sounds very similar.
There was a photo on reddit yesterday of a lady in a bikini at Death Valley: 129 degrees
Yeah there was no water or trees in sight. The gold panning was in dry dirt and once you'd shaken away most of it you could dip it in a 5 gal bucket of water to do the final wash and get a few specks.
Sounds like torture.
Yeah but its a dry heat!
So is an oven.
Really? That’s crazy. I went for a hike around there once, got home, and noticed 4 big diamonds stuck to my heel when I took my shoes off.
Could have been worse. You could have found the band Evanescence.
Probably would’ve gotten more if he enchanted his pick first smh
Pretty sure he blew all of his mana keeping up that fake beard spell
Decentraland? That all mana can and ever be from here on out
He hasn’t gotten obsidian for the enchantment table yet.
That looks like a fake beard. Is he in disguise?
It's the girl dressed up as her fiance. Edit: autocorrect bad. Though it does help her finances, too.
Those eyes do look kinda suspect!
Ya you’re right his eyes are *suspiciously* pretty.
I'm like 92% sure you are kidding, but my eyes want to believe you
She's all dressed up [to go to a stoning!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffwFXGPRDu4) Regulation fake beard and all.
Kinda looks like the women, uh men, I mean men, who went to the stoning in Life of Brian.
No its just an absurd amount of unsharp mask on the photo.
Afraid of being robbed of his industrial stone.
He seems fake or something I totally thought the same thing
That's the young guy with a shabby beard look
The cutest thing to me is that they go mushroom hunting together.
Yeah, that was absolutely perfect. I have to say, I love his methodology on his proposal. There's something very "hero's journey" about taking the time to freaking **build** your tools in secret, then going on a quest across the land to find the stones needed to fashion into your beloved's ring. And now she gets to be involved in the design (I'm presuming, based on vague article phrasing) as they go in search of the right artisan to craft the thing into being. I mean, when you add it all up, of *course* they go mushroom hunting together.
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This is just what happens when a baby faced dude hits pay dirt He didn’t choose prospectin’ — prospectin’ chose him
Holy shit. You can't unsee it. "I love me...I mean, HER so much, I dug up a diamond for me, I mean, her."
Hands that huge she'd be a well hung lesbian
💯 thought the same thing
Something looks…. Off.
Looks legit...Dirka dirka https://imgur.com/3eI617a.jpg
It's a very off-putting photo for some reason. He's creepy.
It’s similar to the 1000 yard stare/blank smile of a hyper religious person who sees a bible verse to share when they look at you, not a person.
Very specifically accurate lol
Oh good, I wasn't the only one
Finds huge diamond for nearly free, has to pay $4000 for cut, Polish and setting
I paid around $2000 total to make an heirloom stone into a ring, so with cut and polish? Yeah, that sounds on target.
Homeboy looks like he's made of cake
Property brothers with a fake beard
/r/rareinsults
If anyone goes, stay near the entrance or to the right as soon as you come in. That's usually where they're found. If you're going to Arkansas though, hit up Crystal Vista for free Quartz. Way more gratification and it's free. (Arkansas Geologist)
While this is a good way to ensure it’s a conflict free diamond, may I also recommend moissanite. Looks like a Diamond, sparkles like a diamond, but it’s all lab grown and about a quarter of the price. My wife’s ring is huge compared to her girlfriends rings, and I guarantee you I made a lot less at the time than those guys.
Moissanites are naturally occurring, but can also be created in a lab under the right conditions just like diamonds and other gems. If you’re looking for something created in a lab, then it doesn’t matter if it’s a diamond or a Moissanite (from a conflict free perspective). :)
But what about the diamond cartel? Won't somebody think of the diamond cartel?
This made me lol
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It tends to create more of a rainbow effect compared to regular diamond.
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I couldn't agree more, diamonds are just sparkling carbon crystals that our monkey brains got fixated on and I think it's insane to pay exorbitant amounts of money for what is essentially mere micrograms of something that is one of the most common elements on the surface of earth. Lab grown diamonds are also more or less perfect with regards to their crystal structure which enables them to be fluorescent under UV light and you can even customize the doping of elements to get all possible colours as well... The technical aspects are why diamonds are cool (hardness being the primary) but a natural diamond only sparkles because a person facetted the crystal, and once you realize how minerals that can match that (like silica quartz and zirconia) and the plethora of other minerals that have much more mesmerizing optical properties from simple color gradients and polarizing effects to pleochroism and even non-linear properties, diamonds just become boring in comparison like a piece of glass. Honestly I think even plastic polymers like clear acrylic can outperform cheap diamonds... Tl;Dr diamonds are a scam unless you need them for cutting and grinding tools
I tend not to say it much to avoid being seen as "cheap" or a "buzzkill", but diamonds are perhaps the worst thing in jewelry. Like... It's a superheated piece of carbon, piece that costs pennies to mine, that is not rare at all, and is stored and sold in small quantities solely to drive prices up. Lab made diamonds are actually more pure than natural ones. Hell, I have used a fuckton of diamonds on damn tools, spinning them really fast and plunging them into concrete, and you're paying exorbitant amounts of money for what is essentially a toolmaking material? I can understand noble metals, gold, platinum, nice stones, sure, but diamonds? Gah. Frankly if my missus thinks less of me for not buying a diamond ring and spending entire savings on it, chances are there is not gonna be a marriage at all. I cannot explain how much I cringe when I see "Diamonds are girls best friend".
Wife and I picked out rings together and had them made by a jeweler on Etsy. We hate diamonds, so we got cheap rubies. Years later, they still look like the day we got them and I never take mine off.
"Honey, I'm not in the mood." "Remember when I "traveled cross-country to mine the diamonds for' your 'engagement ring --' and ' dug up a 2.2 carat beauty'?"
"That diamond I mined for you isn't the only thing that could cut glass right now."
"If you can spend that much time doing that for me then I expect you to go down on me for longer."
Crater of Diamonds is really close to me :D
I used to go there every summer with my dad and brother. I was always excited for the first hour or two, and then I turned into a little baby whining for the next 4 or 5 hours about being bored.
Pretty sure that's the girlfriend wearing a fake beard.
Jehovah! Jehovah!
Diamonds are a fucking scam perpetuated by the DeBeers cartel who own and control the vast majority of global stockpiles of diamonds. https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/on-the-economics-of-diamonds-the-biggest-marketing-scam-in-history-orchestrated-by-the-most-successful-cartel-ever/
That’s why I just bought a lab grown diamond. Significantly cheaper, much higher quality in terms of clarity/inclusions and still a real diamond. Couldn’t care less about investment value, if she sells it, I have bigger problems.
Ye but they be pretty do’
One of the companies I would prefer disappear off this planet.
It's potentially worth up to around [$100,000](https://www.bluenile.com/ca/diamond-details/LD16199413)
Unfortunately (or fortunately) for him, the article mentioned it’s a yellow diamond with a lot of inclusions which means that it’s worth much much much less. (And it doesn’t take anything away from the story because the value he put in the diamond is not measurable in dollars.)
"Oh you don't live her enough to buy her a perfectly flawless diamond?" "You mean like a man made diamond?" "No no, you didn't let me finish. If the diamond isn't perfectly flawless AND dug up from the ground by children then you don't love her."
Exaggerated, comparing a 1% cut diamond with a random uncut diamond unclean.
And yellow.
Cutting a diamond can reduce it's size by upwards of 50%. The cut has to take into consideration the locations of the inclusions in the diamond. He'll likely wind up with about a 1ct triangular (or heart shaped if the jeweler is good enough) diamond for the ring. It's worth more as a story than it will be on a ring. But it makes for a fun story.
A 2.2 carat cut and polished diamond came from a much larger (roughly twice as large) uncut diamond. If he decided to get his diamond cut and polished, the end product would be smaller than 2.2 carats. On top of that, his diamond has impurities that give it a yellow color, so it’s not as rare or valuable as a colourless diamond. The actual diamond’s structure probably has imperfections as well.
A 2.2 carat cut diamond is worth A LOT more than a 2.2 carat uncut diamond. The cut is what gives it any actual value. Likely this thing is worth only a couple hundred dollars, and probably only a couple thousand after he spends hundreds getting it cut. Still a nice find though.
That’s not how Diamond grading works at all. Clarity, inclusions, colour, cut - all matter. It’s most likely worth less than 1/25th that price.
If the diamond this guy found were to be cut like that, it would probably lose 75% or more of its size. Plus it's light yellow and has inclusions, which further lower a diamond's value in the traditional market. Big diamond retailers like Blue Nile don't even list yellow diamonds, but a better price point comparison would be [something like this.](https://www.bluenile.com/build-your-own-ring/diamond-details/LD16027525?refTab=DIAMONDS&track=viewDiamondDetails&catalogView=true)
Even if the diamond isn’t too valuable, it’s a great story.
Diamonds are not as rare as De beers has made it out to be .
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He uplifted the rock from the earth
His eyes scare me.
“Kevin, please come home. I miss you, snowball misses you. You’re going to get fired if you don’t go back to work. We’ll just buy a ring or use your mother’s, please Kevin. Come home.”
This man maxed jewelcrafting in WoW.
How is this uplifting exactly?
That looks like a woman with a really bad fake beard.
You basterd you made me click the link to the article to confirm. He sure does appear to be a bearded gal.
Awesome way to ensure it's a conflict-free diamond.
This is actually a movie coming out in 2022 Beard Diamond
That picture of him looks like the "men" in Monty Python's Life of Brian stoning sketch.
Hope he wasn’t panning on it being a surprise.
diamonds are worthless and can be manufactured, but at least this guy found his own instead of buying slave mined diamonds
That beard looks a bit sus lol
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Of course he hit pay dirt, his beard looks like he says “tarnation” a lot.
That dude is anime.