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Depending on who you believe, the largest, or second or third largest, diamond found in North America. Found at the Diavik Mine in the NWT - I've searched, I can find no larger finds in North America.
187.7 Carats.
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As winter is settled in and attempts at prospecting have failed (still too much snow, and it falls, still it falls) I fall upon YouTube to deliver me it's treasures.
Thank you Nicola White. Makes me want to return to London, if only to stroll the Thames...
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Of course, half the trick of finding treasure is recognizing it when you find it. Apparently a rather astute New Yorker noticed an unattended Loomis Truck and made off with a bucket containing 86 Lbs of Gold Flakes. I've a new hero...
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The New Italian Waiter, the one that walked out after I left, friend of the Nephews, when he found out I was moving to BC had told me that "Trout Lake" was where it was at. By which he meant it was, according to all the drunken conversations he'd had with friends, the perfect place to ride out the Armageddon.
I hummed and hawed, "Sure" I agreed, and promised to remember it for future reference.
Turns out the place would be cemented in my memory for different reasons:
Link: http://www.revelstokereview.com/news/395025051.html
Note that these are "preliminary" results, and - remember Bre-X, anyone? Anyways, it pays to take these things with a pinch of salt. But I've been up around there, panned a few flakes, it's not hopeless...
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When I lived in London we (coworker and I) went out and did this a couple of times, wandering the banks of the Thames at low tide and searching for whatever buried treasure the river saw fit to cough up. Nothing too interesting, a lot of china, broken pipe stems, an ancient fossil tooth (mammal, pre-ice age but not dinosaur), our finds didn't amount to much but we ran into others with better luck - one, a metal detectorist, talking to him, a bag full of shrapnel from the war, told us his best find was a 16th century widow's ring, gold, with a coffin shaped diamond...
We weren't deluded, go to the British Museum or Museum of London and you'll find that a lot of their most amazing treasures were found in the Thames, some examples below:
- https://blog.britishmuseum.org/2014/12/22/lost-and-found-toys-tears-and-the-thames/
- http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1362722&partId=1
- http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=828310&partId=1
- http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=65102&partId=1
- http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=831341&partId=1
There's even a website devoted solely to finds on the river: http://www.thamesmuseum.org/
So to find a whole sub-niche of youtube videos that take you on the experience, well, it was inspiring...
Some articles to get you started:
And finally, here are a couple of my favorite channels:
Of course, this is a rabbit hole without end, watch the videos, there are finds of gold coins, votive offerings, abundant jewelry and pipes from all ages...
Inspiring.