Volcanic micro diamonds?

Hello Hobbyist

Here is an old fashioned way to recognize diamonds.

Diamonds mostly occur in octahedral prismatic crystals, with convex planes. In rough state they can have an oily appearance.

How to test: Only a diamond will scratch a diamond. Diamonds have a specific gravity of 3.52 and will float in Clericis solution. Which has been adjusted with distilled water to a specific gravity of 3.6

Hardluck

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		Quote:			Posted by goldnboy
	Hi All     I think you may be able to buy a daimond tester for a few hundred $

They're quite reasonable in cost, actually. They measure the temperature of light being transmitted from an LED to a sensor and are very accurate.

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		Quote:			Posted by seldom
	And among the things which MODERATOR(s) do in this forum are the locking of legitimate inquiries, badgering and harassing (remember the watermarking issue?) and now it seems I can add removal of posts which are not to their liking. Upon scrolling back to find my rephrased question, I find a post of mine mysteriously missing. What next, I wonder? OK you want an answer First if threads are lock its because they have got out of hand. #2 No one has deleted any threads. #3 You have tried to start an argument with  GD and others when they do not agree with you  go back and look at the water mark thread along with several others. #3 If you contently with this it will not end well. Here is the answer to the question Alluvial diamond deposits are found on the Atlantic coast of South Africa and Namibia, as well as in some riverbeds in Angola, Sierra Leone, Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, Cote d?Ivoire, Guinea, Ghana, Liberia, Tanzania, Togo, Brazil, Venezuela, Guyana and South Africa. You have not found diamonds just corundum. I got 32 miles of beach in my front yard you can have all the corundum  you want.

Seldom, I'm afraid I will have to contend with your statements, even if it does not end well.
1) My Tesoro Sand Shark thread was far from out of hand. It was locked on the whim of a moderator, and duly unlocked by Christian when he saw the injustice and abuse of power happening. Since it had been unlocked, I let the issue slide.
2) Kindly refer to reply #50. Golddigger to his credit has honestly stated that a post of mine had indeed been deleted.
3) With regards to the watermarking thread, IMO the instigation came not from my part. It directly came from a moderator who did not agree with the issue. As I recall, you were also not in agreement with an additional watermark but at least you had the decency not to badger me in 2 threads on the matter, unlike the other moderator.

Thank you for the info on locations of alluvial diamond mines. You may wish to add to the list of locations Borneo island, as alluvial diamond mines exploited by artisanal miners do exist here. If the substance you think I've found is corundum, so be it. As I am still totally unsure of the exact nature of the minerals, I shall be looking into the cost of a professional analysis. Should it be affordable, I'll have it done to satisfy my own curiosity.

Posted on: October 14, 2010, 06:51:39 AM

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		Quote:			Posted by GoldDigger1950
	Seldom is right. I am nicer than he is. He would have given you a warning by now. Your post was removed because it was a personal attack, not any kind of discussion of a point. You're lucky I didn't formally warn you. Instead, I quietly removed it. If I had, the next step is that you can only post if a moderator approves your post. Then, after that, it's a total ban. Look, Hobbyist, I am being very tolerant here. The question you originally asked was incorrectly phrased and it generated answers you didn't like. It took 22 posts by your own reckoning for you to fix it and now, because you have, you insist that you were right all along. Nobody cares. It's all fixed now. It's all right. Calm down and get back to being a MEMBER here, not a bully or an antagonist here. That's what is getting you into strife. Not whether or not you are correct or incorrect. It's your antagonistic manner and your bullying. JOIN in. Don't fight with the moderators. There is absolutely no future in that for you. Trust me on that one.

It was never my intent to bully nor antagonize; there's no benefit in that when all I was looking for was a relevant answer to a question. And some answers of varying relevance I have now received. What you term as a "fight", I tend to see as an effort to clarify, expound upon and defend a stance. Granted, there sometimes can be more than one way of looking at a certain issue, and this indirect form of communication will at times fall victim to misinterpretation from one or both sides.

You see me as a bully and an antagonist. Unfortunately I see those 2 traits in you as well as a few more other things, of which not all are in the negative. You are experienced, knowledgeable, obviously learned in many disciplines and are an asset to the website. However that does not give you the license to harass others and mock newcomers for "a bit of fun". I'm glad to say I have not seen much of that recently. May that change be a permanent one.

When the need does arise, I shall not hesitate to voice out where necessary in the most un-bullying, un-antagonistic, un-trollish manner I can, be it directed toward moderator or member. If you interpret it as an act of "fighting", that is your prerogative. Mind you, do not have the impression that I am targeting each and every moderator, because I'm not. Now if all of this does not sit well with you, skip the warning and head directly to banning me. If this does sit well with you, I thank you for your tolerance.

		Quote:			Posted by hardluck
	Hello Hobbyist Here is an old fashioned way to recognize diamonds. Diamonds mostly occur in octahedral prismatic crystals, with convex planes. In rough state they can have an oily appearance. How to test: Only a diamond will scratch a diamond. Diamonds have a specific gravity of 3.52 and will float in Clericis solution. Which has been adjusted with distilled water to a specific gravity of 3.6 Hardluck

Thank you Hardluck. I have 2 books on gemstones which also gave similar methods of identification. I really wish I could find that one particle again in the pile of sand I brought back. It did seem bumpy-oily on one side and had a clean straight cleave on the top side. It's still in the pile somewhere, but my eyes are blur from straining thru the loupe. I doubt I can easily obtain Clereci solution, but will make an effort to find some.

		Quote:			Posted by goldnboy
	Hi All     I think you may be able to buy a daimond tester for a few hundred $

Yes Goldnboy, diamond testers are affordable, and some advanced units can even test for mossanite (a diamond lookalike). Unfortunately such testers will be unlikely to work on the minute particles I have. This stuff is too tiny and fine for the tester probe-point to make sufficient contact. If you saw the photo in post #1, it was taken at the magnification  of 200X with a inferior USB microscope.

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		Quote:			Posted by seldom
	but at least you had the decency not to badger me No one is badgering you. You just refuse to accept answers with out arguing. Every question you have ever asked has turned into $#$$@@%%^ because of that. Truth be told every thing you ever asked could be answered with a Google search, but you prefer to ask for our opinion but you don't want it when you get it you just want to start unrest. The sandshark thread should have been lock but I guess you started crying and it got unlocked good for you sunshine but the thread was already dead so it was mute wasn't it.

I will dispute you on that; I know badgering when I see it (and as a point in clarification since you chose to only partially quote me, said badgering was not in reference to this particular thread).
FYI, I had done Google searches before I started this thread. While I found several informative .pdf's on micro diamonds, I did not read of any indications that small diamonds can lead to larger ones, so I decided to start this thread.
As for the Sandshark thread being unjustifiably locked then unlocked again, you guessed wrong and there was no need for "crying" on my part. If you deem my efforts to filter out irrelevant answers to be tantamount to starting "unrest", you would do well to think again. And I believe the word you are looking for is "moot", not "mute".

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