JohnQuixote
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I was wondering if you''d report to the fo''c''sle on this one, Captain. I was reminded of our conversation about a month ago when I saw the photo.Date: 8/28/2007 11:27:36 AM
Author: CaptAubrey
I''m skeptical. Something about that photo looks wrong, though it could just be the photography.
-It looks glassy
-The crystal form is far too uniform for a stone that size. All the very large (200+ ct) pieces of rough that I''ve seen have been fragments
-The green color is highly suspect, because it appears to be uniform. Green colored rough is almost always in the form of a skin, because the natural radiation that causes most natural green diamonds cannot penetrate more than 1-2 mm into the stone. Diamonds with a homogenous green bodycolor are extremely rare--the largest known cut diamond of that sort is the Dresden Green, which is a whopping 41 ct. So that plus 7000 ct would be incredible.
Bottom line, I think this is a hoax.
Kryptonite?Date: 8/28/2007 11:56:07 AM
Author: part gypsy
I''m voting it''s either fake, or an alien artifact (crystal used in manuevering chassis of alien spacecraft)
I came scurrying over here to post about it as soon as I saw the report, but you beat me to it.Date: 8/28/2007 11:35:37 AM
Author: JohnQuixote
I was wondering if you''d report to the fo''c''sle on this one, Captain. I was reminded of our conversation about a month ago when I saw the photo.
Wrong aliens.Date: 8/28/2007 12:11:53 PM
Author: JohnQuixote
Kryptonite?Date: 8/28/2007 11:56:07 AM
Author: part gypsy
I''m voting it''s either fake, or an alien artifact (crystal used in manuevering chassis of alien spacecraft)
Stebbo, maybe a swallow carried it.
Fred Cuellar, the founder of Diamond Cutters International and author of How to Buy a Diamond, said he first heard about the find a few days ago. "I get a phone call when any rare stone around the world is found and when I heard about this one it was stunning news.
"It caught everybody in the diamond industry offside. There will be a lot of mad bidding from a lot of private individuals as to who is going to buy this stone."
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Mr Cuellar said the most important information about the latest find was yet to be forthcoming, including whether it is colourless. "The reported size of the stone is accurate, but there are all these other factors we still don''t know and what matters now is how wide, how clear and how well cut it will be.
"Will this diamond rank above the best quality diamonds in the world? I can tell you right now, no. But in as far as the list of the largest diamonds ever found in the world goes, would it make that list? Yes it would."
He said the first seven people who looked at the stone thought it was industrial grade, but that view has changed and it now appears to be a stone that will be cut into a piece of jewellery.
I''m 100% certain now that this is a fish story.
Yes, but was a European or African swallow?Date: 8/28/2007 12:11:53 PM
Author: JohnQuixote
Kryptonite?Date: 8/28/2007 11:56:07 AM
Author: part gypsy
I''m voting it''s either fake, or an alien artifact (crystal used in manuevering chassis of alien spacecraft)
Stebbo, maybe a swallow carried it.
No more Python fans onboard?Date: 8/28/2007 3:11:43 PM
Author: part gypsy
African swallow maybe, definitely not an european swallow.
Thank you for carrying on in true Python style--all of which was started by John Q., with the reference to the swallowsDate: 8/28/2007 11:42:37 PM
Author: WorkingHardforSmallRewards
anyway, not the best, but im a big Monty Python fan tooI hope this diamond is real though, that would be pretty exciting!
No! Not the Knights who say "Ni"! [runs away holding hands over ears......]Date: 8/29/2007 12:00:04 AM
Author: JohnQuixote
''Ni!''