Wisconsin Man Finds 3.9 Carat Diamond!
October 25th, 2007 by Shawn|
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A Wisconsin native visiting a diamond park with his fiancee discovered a 3.92-carat white stone, but you wont see it on the finger of his love. That’s because she already has a ring, 1 carat and she is very happy with it. Eric Blake, 32, of Appleton, Wis., saw the stone Tuesday along a trail at Crater of Diamonds State Park when he set down a bucket of mud he was carrying to a wash basin.
“I put the bucket down to switch hands. I looked down and there it was,” Blake said.The stone is big enough to finish into jewelry, but Blake said Tuesday that he hadn’t decided whether to do so.His fiancee, Susan Gabrielson — who has “only one carat on her finger” — accompanied Blake to the park this week.
Crater of Diamonds is the world’s only diamond-producing site open to the public, and visitors can keep any stone they dig up. The largest diamond ever found in the US, a 40-carat stone named Uncle Sam, was discovered in 1924.
March 17th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
In regards to the following article:
Wis. man digging for diamonds with his fiancee finds 3.9-carat stone at Arkansas park
Date: October 25, 2007
Publication: Associated Press Archive
It has recently been exposed that Eric Blake, the subject was found out to have actually “salted” the areas with diamonds he had imported from India. He did this to make a profit, as Arkansas Diamonds are worth MUCH MORE than similar diamonds from India.
Bloggers on the FakeMinerals.com exposed this fraud. http://www.fakeminerals.com/archives/53
The Superintendent of the Crater of Diamonds state park has already informed him that he is no longer welcome on premises. Please write a follow up on this story, as it soils the reputation of both mineral collecting and the great state of ARKANSAS.
Thank-You
Silence Dogood