Garrett424
Silver Member
- Jun 20, 2014
- 3,164
- 2,284
- Detector(s) used
- Teknetics Omega 8000
Teknetics Delta 4000,
Deteknix XPointer,
Fiskar's Big Grip Digger & my old Army Trench shovel for the tough jobs
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
Well, like the title says, I think I may have found my first diamond today.
I was hunting an old school along the soccer field sidelines. A really bad storm was on the way after an intense heat wave and I had very little time. I got a faint signal I assumed was more junk but dug it anyway. I've been doing that a great deal lately in the hopes of some gold. I got a real surprise when I picked this target out of the hole.
It's a small "diamond" stud earring. Unfortunately, the pics don't do it justice. I compared it to some known cubic zirconia stones on a silver ring I found and there is just no comparison. This thing has real fire and lots of color. The CZ stones do not, despite the fact that they are larger and there are three of them.
It also easily scratches glass and passes the breath test every time. It WILL NOT hold heat for more than a brief moment no matter how much you fog it up. The CZ stones clear up as well but it takes much longer. I even scratched an old antique bottle made of really thick glass and it scratches it with no problem. OTOH, high quality CZ will also scratch glass according to what I have read.
It's about 1/8" across and about 1/16" from top to bottom, tapering down to a point at the bottom. I have no idea how that would translate karat wise.
The setting looks like gold but it's not marked that I can tell.
I don't know a darn thing about diamonds (other than they're expensive and women love them) and I won't know for sure until I get it checked out.
If it's real I guess I'll be pretty happy. If it's fake it's one beautiful fake and still a cool, fun find.
I'll try and find out for sure tomorrow.
If anyone here can spot a fake a mile away and thinks this is a fake, please let me know. I'm not going to assume anything until I know one way or another. I wish I could get better pics but my camera has it's limitations. This thing is just so small I can't get a good close up in good focus.
Thanks for looking and HH.
I was hunting an old school along the soccer field sidelines. A really bad storm was on the way after an intense heat wave and I had very little time. I got a faint signal I assumed was more junk but dug it anyway. I've been doing that a great deal lately in the hopes of some gold. I got a real surprise when I picked this target out of the hole.
It's a small "diamond" stud earring. Unfortunately, the pics don't do it justice. I compared it to some known cubic zirconia stones on a silver ring I found and there is just no comparison. This thing has real fire and lots of color. The CZ stones do not, despite the fact that they are larger and there are three of them.
It also easily scratches glass and passes the breath test every time. It WILL NOT hold heat for more than a brief moment no matter how much you fog it up. The CZ stones clear up as well but it takes much longer. I even scratched an old antique bottle made of really thick glass and it scratches it with no problem. OTOH, high quality CZ will also scratch glass according to what I have read.
It's about 1/8" across and about 1/16" from top to bottom, tapering down to a point at the bottom. I have no idea how that would translate karat wise.
The setting looks like gold but it's not marked that I can tell.
I don't know a darn thing about diamonds (other than they're expensive and women love them) and I won't know for sure until I get it checked out.
If it's real I guess I'll be pretty happy. If it's fake it's one beautiful fake and still a cool, fun find.
I'll try and find out for sure tomorrow.
If anyone here can spot a fake a mile away and thinks this is a fake, please let me know. I'm not going to assume anything until I know one way or another. I wish I could get better pics but my camera has it's limitations. This thing is just so small I can't get a good close up in good focus.
Thanks for looking and HH.
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You never want to scratch glass with a diamond, it can destroy the facets on the diamond. 
You'll get umm next time !! 
