Good morning to you all , Here is a bit more said about surface hunting ! As we know its best said when they say the diamonds are where they are . Here is a bit of information on this by Margi Jenkins ..... 1.63 carat yellow found 8/11/2014 (the microscope camera does not show the true color) Want to find the “big one”? Don’t forget to surface search! By Margi Jenks Want to raise your odds of finding that “big one” during your visit to the Crater of Diamonds State Park? One of the most common errors that our visitors make is that they go out to one spot on our search field, plop down, and never move. By doing this, those visitors almost guarantee that they will not find that “big one” that they having been talking and dreaming about. By staying in one spot, visitors cut down on the time that they spend surface searching. The less time you spend surface searching the lower your odds are of finding an over 40 pt. diamond. With this behavior the odds are even lower of finding an over one carat diamond, and they get really bad for finding an over 2 carat diamond. So, let’s talk some numbers to show why surface searching is so important if you want to find a big diamond. So far in 2014 of the 14 over 1 carat registered diamonds, 10 of them have been surface finds. Those 10 large diamonds include the two over 2 carat diamonds that have been found so far this year—the 6.17 carat white found in April and the 2.89 carat white found in March. Of the 40 point to 1 carat diamonds, 14 of them were surface finds. Surface finds only account for 59 of the 372 total diamonds that have been found so far this year. But a high percentage of those surface finds have been “big diamonds”. 2013 numbers are pretty similar, so 2014 is not just a fluke. In that year visitors registered 64 of the total of 455 diamonds as found on the surface. Of those surface finds, 10 of them were over 1 carat in size (a total of 17 over one carat diamonds were found in 2013). More amazing is the fact that all 6 of the 2013 over 2 carat finds were surface finds! So, what do I mean by “surface finds”? Those are diamonds that were found without disturbing or digging into the search area dirt. Those surface finders just walked up, and picked those large diamonds up right off the top of the ground. You may have heard the story from 2013 about that North Carolina 12-year-old boy who found his 5.16 carat brown diamond on the surface 10 minutes after he walked out on the field! The fascinating thing about that story is that it is not unusual. Then, what do all of these big diamond finds, which were picked up right off the surface without any more effort than bending over, have in common. The answer is that almost all of them were found right after the search field had been turned to a muddy field by a significantly long or hard rainstorm. Diamonds are just heavy enough that during a hard or long rain they will stay put, and the dirt will wash away. The bigger the diamond, the more likely it is that a long or hard rain will leave it sitting there right on the surface. A good example of this phenomenon was the 4.5” of rain that fell on the field over Thursday and Friday, August 8th and 9th. Monday the 11th a searcher from Franklin, NC, turned in a 1.63 carat yellow diamond that he found right on the surface. He said that “It was shining up at me like a yellow laser light.” An hour and a half later, a Harrison, AR visitor registered another surface find, this time a 1.61 carat brown diamond. And, I suspect that another similar diamond, or an even a bigger one, may still be sitting on the surface in one of the areas that fewer diamond searchers visit. 1.61 carat brown found 8/11/2014 Therefore, if you want to raise your odds of finding a “big one”, don’t just go out in one spot and spend the day there. Take breaks and walk around the field, carefully looking each step you take at the top of the plowed rows for that rounded and extremely shiny little rock. You may be the next visitor to find that 1 carat and over diamond! Search area last plowed: all plowed in the last month; Most recent significant rainstorms: 4.5” August 8 and 9 Total diamonds found in 2014: 372 Diamonds registered for August 10 to August 16, 2014 (100 points = 1 carat): August 10 – Anna Cavalieri, Mantua, NJ, 36 pt. white August 11 – Vic Delgado, Franklin, NC, 1.63 ct. yellow; Robert Lapp, Harrison, AR, 1.61 ct. brown August 12 – Anthony Lopez, Denver, CO, 10 pt. yellow August 13 – Jerry Gullett, Piketon, OH, 2 pt. yellow, 12 pt. white, 13 pt. white; Jack Pearadin, Jefferson City, MO, 4 pt. white, 8 pt. yellow August 14 – Riley Foster, Little Rock, AR, 49 pt. brown; Steven Summa, Dallas, TX, 20 pt. white August 15 – Kenneth Shoemaker, Murfreesboro, AR, 2 pt. white, 6 pt. white August 16 – Angie Robertson, White Oak, TX, 7 pt. white; Jack Pearadin, Murfreesboro, AR, 13 pt. yellow How ever you choose to find your diamond , we wish you the best of luck Reply, Reply All or Forward | More Click to reply all Go to the Norton AntiVirus site Send
Posted on: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 11:52:27 +0000
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