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This from my father. Apparently the U of A is starting a "Diamond Exploration and Research Training School". Clearly I have some pretty mixed feelings about this, I could definitely benefit from a bit more knowledge, but I don't like the idea of informed competition. Still, it proves my suspicions, you don't operate a forestry management program in the desert, or a mountain climbing program in Saskatchewan, the fact they want to train people suggests they know we're close to the source...
Links: U of A, Edmonton Journal
More Pictures of pebbles, quartz, ballas diamonds, etc.
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(*Note: All photos are CC. As always, if I took the picture, feel free to re-purpose it to your own ends. Credit is nice but hardly necessary)
So of course I'm playing with my new digital microscope and you have to bear the burden of my findings. Below, a perfectly shaped minute quartz point. Sure looks like a diamond, but it probably isn't.
That said, if you looked at the previous pebbles I posted, there's a big grey area...lots of things you can say definitely aren't, but there's a few I'm unsure about.
Read more: More Pictures of pebbles, quartz, ballas diamonds, etc.
Augmented Reality
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This on Wired, the augmented reality being worked upon by Magic Leap: http://www.wired.com/2016/04/magic-leap-vr/
The future is an interesting place...
The Acid Test
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Now, playing again with the digital camera and some hydrochloric acid, I've put some of the previously photographed "pebbles" (more grit and grains of sand) in the HCL solution to see which dissolve and which survive. Those that survive - intact - are presumably diamonds...
This is the starting photograph:
You can see the bubbles as the HCL works it's magic. I spilled a bit, always, hopefully the desk and computer are here in the morning, but a time-lapse animation/.gif/vine will help to show me where to steer my attentions...In the past, I never knew which ones "survived" and which ones merely shrunk, and needed more acid to disappear. Now I'll know...
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