[meteorite-list] Re: (Ron Baalke) Fossil find...(getting off topic)

From: mafer <mafer_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:25:34 2004
Message-ID: <063e01c31120$e26c9b60$6501a8c0_at_vs.shawcable.net>

Actually, Diamonds are found in a lot of places in America and Canada. There
are three assayed pipes in the southeast potion of British Columbia. And,
somewhere in the Sierra Nevada's there should be some pipes as diamonds have
been found there by gold panners. And, aside from the pipe in Arkansas,
there is a pipe in Northeast Georgia (but I was refused admittance to the
property because the person leasing the property is afraid of a gold rush
occuring) and there are probally more there as well. There is also diamond
pipe(s) in/around the great lakes. Glacial drift carrying diamonds was once
a popular accounting of how diamonds made it from here to there, but local
diamond pipes are more realistic and factual.
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: David Freeman <dfreeman_at_fascination.com>
To: S. Singletary <jumper_at_MIT.EDU>
Cc: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 7:18 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Re: (Ron Baalke) Fossil find...(getting off
topic)


> Dear Steven;
> I hate to one up, but my copy of Barren Lands is signed by Mr. Krajick,
> and is the advance reading copy, and I have sold him two diamonds and a
> few tablespoons full of local diamond indicator minerals....such one
> up's manship!
> Glad I am not that way in the meteorite world.
> Good Friday evening all,
> Dave Freeman (who's into all sorts of rock things)
>
> S. Singletary wrote:
>
> >
> >>
> >> Actually the source of "drift" diamonds has
> >> been found. The geologist, who spent ten
> >> to fifteen years looking for their source
> >> in now a rather wealthy person for his
> >> efforts and patience.
> >
> >
> > As a side note, if you want to read an excellent account of all this I
> > recommend "Barren Lands" by Kevin Krajick
> > There's is an excellent history of the diamond industry in general and
> > of the race between Fipke and DeBeers to find the source of the
> > glacial diamonds in the Arctic.
> >
> > Steven
> >
> >
> > Steven Singletary
> > 54-1224
> > Dept. Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
> > M.I.T.
> > Cambridge, MA, 02139
> > Tel-617.253.6398
> > Fax-617.253.7102
> >
> >
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