[Rockhounds] diamonds sauteed in butter

[Tim Jokela Jr.]

I recall a fellow in Wisconsin coating a 4x8 sheet of plywood with grease, 
shovelling sand on it and and powerwashing it in a gravel pit. Dunno how 
much sand he moved but he did get some nice glacially transported micro 
diamonds. Think it was Al Falster (sp?), Wisconsin pegmatite guru.

Another wicked cool way to hunt for diamonds is in a busy urban mall parking 
lot, after dark, after a nice bit of cold weather. Ladies come out of the 
nice warm mall into say minus twenty, gold rings shrink a bit and out pop 
their diamonds. One guy in the car with a big halogen spotlight to catch the 
sparkling diamond - cut to pick up and reflect a lot of light-  the other 
guy to walk to it. Was told it works a treat.

T


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sicree, Andrew, Ph.D." <sicree at verizon.net>
To: <rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 5:14 PM
Subject: [Rockhounds] diamonds in butter


>
>
> I heard a story about a guy in Wisconsin? who owned
> a car wash.  He got a bunch of expired butter and
> coated the floor of the car wash with it.  Then he
> proceeded to wash a huge amount of glacial? sand
> through the car wash and found six? diamonds sticking
> in the butter.
>
> I put the ??? in because I don't know any specific
> details about this story.
>
> Do anyone know anything about this story?  Is it
> an geo-urban legend?
>
> If it is true, can anyone give me any names,
> addresses, or other details to check on the story?
>
> It is vaguely plausible because it is known that
> diamonds will stick to grease.  (Grease table
> are/were used to catch diamonds at mines in
> South Africa.)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew
>
> Andrew A. Sicree, Ph.D.
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