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The Eagle Diamond is a gemstone discovered in Eagle, Wisconsin in 1876 that was about 16 carats. It was found on a hillside about 30 feet below the surface in glacial till while digging a well. [ 1 ] It was one of more than a dozen rare gems stolen in a heist from the American Museum of Natural History in 1964 and remains missing to this day.
Found above ground in Lençóis: 1895: Eventually sold to I. K. Gulland of London, where it was broken up into small pieces as industrial diamond drills. [7] 3106.75: Cullinan Diamond South Africa: Premier Mine: 1905: British Crown (I and II) and Charles III (III–IX) The largest gem-quality diamond ever discovered. 2492 [8] Motswedi Botswana ...
The Forest is host to Old World Wisconsin, a collection of farmsteads, recreating the homes and lives of settlers, and also to the McMiller Sportsmen Center, public hunting practice ranges. The Pike Lake Unit is on the eastern side of 446-acre (1.80 km 2) Pike Lake. It is located on state Highway 60 in between Slinger and Hartford. The park ...
That diamond on your wedding ring isn't as rare as you might think, according to new research. There are over a quadrillion tons of diamonds lurking 100 miles below the Earth's surface, according ...
The Canadian mining company Lucara Diamond Corp. announced in August that it had unearthed what it believed to be the second-largest diamond ever found, at 2,492 carats. The stone was found in the ...
A 2,492-carat diamond was unearthed at Botswana's famed Karowe mine this week by Canada's Lucara Diamond, one of the largest stones ever.. Lucara Diamond, in a news release Wednesday, said the ...
Marsh Haven Nature Center is a 46-acre, non-profit, volunteer-supported visitor's center and park just across Hwy 49 from the northern edge of the Horicon National Wildlife Refuge. It is open to the public and has educational programs, picnic areas, and hiking trails.
The diamond was named "Uncle Sam" after the nickname of its finder, Wesley Oley Basham, a worker at the Arkansas Diamond Corporation. [1] [2] [3] The rough diamond as originally discovered weighed 40.23 carats (8.046 g). It was faceted twice by Schenck & Van Haelen of New York, which specialized in Arkansas diamonds, handling over 14,000.