Diamond Hunting In The Wal-Mart Parking Lot
Diamond Hunting In The Wal-Mart Parking Lot
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Treasure In Vacuum Cleaner Dust
A man in California offered to take the shag carpet when a large old theater was being remodeled, saving the new owners the cost of disposal. The theater had been closed for years, but during the thirties it was a place where the wealthy went for entertainment. The wealthy, like all of us, lose things, but more valuable things perhaps.
When the old carpet was cut up and carefully shook out, it was found to contain over $2,000 worth of precious stones, rings, and coins. Wondering what may be caught by vacuum cleaners, the man then arranged to take the full cleaner bags from several cleaning companies each week. It saves them disposal costs, and he regularly finds coins and small jewelry when he digs through the dirt.
Another enterprising TH'er arranged to collect all the sweepings from several grocery stores and he'd run the dirt through a home made riffle screen system to recover loose diamonds. Reaching into cold freezers would cause ring settings to expand and contract popping out loose stones. Near flawless diamonds can bring in some serious cash.
Hunting Diamonds In Parking Lots
The temperature changes your jewelry experiences getting in and out of cars and buildings cause diamonds to come loose from their settings. This makes parking lots one of the most common places that diamonds are lost. One older couple I read about become so good at telling the difference (from a distance!) between the sparkle of a diamond and bits of glass that they regularly take early morning walks in mall parking lots for a second income. That paid for their cruises to the Caribbean. There are some doubting thomas's out there about how a diamond sparkles and so does glass. A diamond will wink at you twice because of the facets where glass won't. Best time to hunt those lots is with the sun at your back and the parking lot nearly empty. Take a diamond and a piece of glass chip and step back and check it out.
Do stones really get loose?
Have you or anyone you know ever had the diamond fall out of their ring? « Weddingbee Boards
Treasures In The River
Criminals and kids throw things off of bridges routinely (a quick way to get rid of evidence). Several times as a child I saw bicycles in rivers. One man I read about makes a living using magnets and other tools to retrieve guns, money, and other things of value from the bottom of murky rivers (near bridges).
