Where to find diamonds, How to identify rough diamonds and how to recover raw diamond crystals

I live in south India, just 50 km from a place famous for finding diamonds (the Kohinoor diamond was supposedly found here). But I never bothered to go and search for diamonds (traditionally after a rainy night) because I knew absolutely nothing on the subject. The information in this video is an eye opener for ordinary people like me. I will try to get your book. Thank you.

Thank you very much for your honesty a very rare quality these days it seems. I've learned more from this one video of yours then I have in a long time, yes you're very informative but it's more in the way of your ability to express your ideas and information for all to Easley understand. Once again thank you very much for making this video.

I've prospected more rough diamond's due to your imeasurable insight Chris. The globe needs more of your awesomeness as a paradise. Shall be a great honor to meet you and learn from your expertise first hand !May God bless you abundantly!

Hi Chris, - you give some great answers to the questions, both the reasonable ones and the... "other" ones. Very enjoyable!

In 20 years this is the first time I learned about rock diamonds completely and very easily 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

First rough diamond I found was at the Crater of Diamonds - after 4 yearly trips and many buckets dug, found a white one pinhead size. My best diamond finds (2 gold/diamond rings) have been parking lots and at a trailhead (1 earring). Found gold panning at Lotus, on the American River, covered in mercury...sure was a wonderful experience. Will be looking for corundum in WY this year. Love the hobby, metal detecting too. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, look forward to watching more.

I glad to see I'm not the only one who likes the rocks to look nice and shiny but also to keep that natural look and shape of the rock. I just got a tumbler as a gift and have only done a couple batches. I do the chalcedony also. I wasn't sure if I was doing anything wrong wondering if they should be coming out better somehow but I like them. It's crazy how similar yours and mine are. I'm about to start some today and now I feel more confident about what I'm doing after seeing yours. Thanks bud

We went to search without knowledge. And now I learned much from your video. Thank you.

Thank you for your great knowledge you you have shared with us.i have been a prospector for many years and still awaiting a good find.thanks!

Thanks Chris, I really enjoyed this video! Great way to have my morning coffee. Knowledge is power!

I have grown up in Texas Quartz Country, and we found bucketloads, of ‘Diamonds’, as children! Whose to know now, if we had stubbled across the real thing. I ordered your book and await its arrival... Thank you so very much for sharing your wealth of knowledge with Rookies like me.

Great video chris you really helped me broaden my knowledge on diamonds. you're the best

Thank you Chris. Great video and easily understandable presentation. I have learned a lot and will follow your work

i found coarse gold placers in a spring on a hilltop... i was excited but honestly didnt understand exactly what was going on beneath the surface.. you explained everything in your videos..i have found an epithermal deposit.. a closer look at the rocks revealed the evidence and you explained it so well that its all making sense.. im finding precious metals, gemstones, even kimberlite with some small low grade diamonds! Again i cannot thank you enough for helping me understand with your informative videos! You are the man Chris!

I find this subject fascinating. Proper ways to look for valued items, is knowledge needed for amature as well as professional. Working fun. My favorite fun.

It's not very often I enjoy YouTube documentary type shows, don't get me wrong I enjoy all of them, but in this case your a very sociable speaker. It's a nice change to have someone who's information and knowledge can be confirmed simply by hearing the confidence in your voice. From the first few words I knew I'd learn alot about diamonds from you and [hat you weren't just another putz attempting to speak and teach a popular subject simply for to supplement income and that this is your passion. Thank you for the presentation. I started metal detecting about 4 years ago, now I own my own business in southern Ohio, right below the glaciated line in the center of the southern part of the state. I look out my window and 'an see Kentucky across the Ohio river so, as far south as possible. I've looked into sluicing and panning when it comes to gold and was also aware that diamonds and gold sometimes can be found hand in hand, but again this part of the state is non-glaciated so if possible I do have a question for you, more out of a notion I've entertained than out of real world desire to pan here, my idea is that given how close my county is to the glaciated lines, 10-20 miles dead south, I always thought that the tributaries that feed the Ohio river, of course run north to south, could yield gold/precious stones via those waterways. The Scioto River snakes it's way across the entire state similar to the Amazon, huge, profound turns, doing what water does, finding it's way through. My question, to put it plainly, is follows. Since the tributaries run thru known glaciated areas and flow in my direction, would that river current likely be sufficient to roll heavier metals like gold obviously, thru those extreme 180 turns and the back and fourth Amazonian style or would those turns most likely make it improbable and if so which side of the turns are best to sluice or detect on, the inside turn or apex, or the outter edge of the tributaries? Like I said it's just something I've rattled around with no good solution to the query, thank you and I'm subscribing to your channel. Enjoyed this very much.

Thanks for your video! I worked for 40+ years in Diamond exploration and was working for the Ashton Joint Venture Company that discovered what was to become Argyll Diamond Mine in the north of Western Australia. The type of rock in which the diamonds were found was not in your typical Kimberlite, but, in Lamproite the same type of rock found in the Crater of Diamonds. Even the colours in both these locations are of similar hues, namely Browns, Champagne (or, even Cognac!) and pinks. The Argyll Mine has mostly industrial with up to 90% while the gem quality is probably only 10%. Incidentally, Argyll is actually a massive above ground range and it is only now mined below ground with much smaller results. Someone mentioned that the diamonds in Crater of Diamonds in Arkansas are 30% harder than your usual diamonds and this also is the case for those from Argyll. In fact, because Australia is the oldest continent on Earth, the diamonds found can be up to 3 billion years' old! Macles, which are twinned diamonds, are the hardest of all the diamond shapes. You showed two octahedron diamonds earlier in the video. What's even more interesting is that one of them has tiny triangular indentations on one surface. These are called trigons and are equilateral triangles. Other minerals can also show triangles, but, they are not equilateral like trigons on diamonds. This is an important feature only found on diamonds. On the other octahedron are curved lines along the edges of the diamond. These are called "growth lines" and are another feature of diamonds. These are caused as the diamond is growing and being pushed up through the kimberlitic pipe. There have been many Kimberlites found in Australia, but, all of them bar one were not diamondiferous. I was very fortunate to work for the company which found the first diamond-bearing kimberlite in Australia. It was found in the north of Western Australia and contained 90% gem quality diamonds with beautiful macles. Unfortunately, the quantities were lacking... In the eastern part of Australia, many alluvial diamonds have been found, but, not the sources, similar to the diamonds found in the US, except for the ones in Arkansas. You have to be careful if you're panning for gold and expect to find diamonds. Because diamonds are not very heavy, they can easily float off in water because of their surface tension. Where I worked in a Diamond Lab, sample bags were passed over a WilfleyTable which, along with water shakes the grains into various divisions which are later treated to obtain soil concentrates which are observed under binocular and petrological microscopes to ascertain if there are any diamonds or minerals that are called diamond indicators. Some grains are even processed for further tests on SEM, X-Ray Diffraction machines for more positive results. If people are interested in learning and seeing pictures of natural/rough/uncut diamonds, mindat.org is a good start. Of course, there are textbooks such as Dana's Mineralogy, (the bible of minerals!), Sinkankas's Mineralogy.

Heart warming and well digest information. Found a lot of diamonds in my dream years ago and hoping it comes into reality😊

Excellent! I watched thru the whole thing spellbound. It answered most of my questions, concerns, and how to do the do. Thank you so very much for sharing this information. I have a bucket list for this summer and this was on it- diamond mining I mean. Again, thank you so much.

Thank you again. Cant thank you enough. I've been doing quartz hunting. Didnt ever think about it as diamonds. Gonna double check. Itd be cool to find a daimond! I'm glad I ran into your videos on YouTube and I subscribed. When I watch "helping me pass tests" on YouTube i wish I would learn as much and is as interested as i am with your amazing videos. Have a good night. From California ❤🕯🙏