Thank you so very much! I appreciate your encouragement. And thanks for watching my videos. My camera thought I was talking to much so it cut me off then restarted. Here is the rest of that discussion/presentation on volcanic material: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qtd4rMyIzLiXdY0.html

Thank you for watching my videos and for your encouraging compliment. I sincerely appreciate it.

Thank you for watching my video and for your encouraging comment.

Thank you! I appreciate you watching my videos and for your encouraging comments.

Yes, my camera thought I had talked too long. It got bored and shut me off then restarted again. Here is the rest of the talk in the next video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qtd4rMyIzLiXdY0.html

I'm glad you enjoyed my talk. My camera didn't. It thought I'd said enough. It stopped then restarted. Here is the rest of what I was trying to say: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qtd4rMyIzLiXdY0.html

There are plenty of places in the west. Wyoming also has many kimberlite pipes with know diamonds.

Thank you for watching and for your encouraging comment. I find it fascinating.

I didn't realize that. I thought their formation required intense pressure and heat from great depths. I'm just asking, but are you certain the subduction zone didn't take carbon down to great depth to form the diamonds there?

Thank you for watching my video and for your encouraging comment.

I have been to every site except Winkler, which is the largest. Bala is the worst for chances of having anything, but it is an interesting, geological feature. I had permission to go in and dig at The Stockdale Intrusion many years ago. It was LOADED with garnet and ilmenite. Here is a couple of tips: Go to the creeks that drain from these sites and dig gravel there. Also, when sorting through your gravel concentrates, put on a pair of amber sunglasses. I discovered this by accident, but that really makes the red, garnets stand out. You won't find any diamonds, though. All of the Kansas kimberlites came to the surface too slowly, and all of the diamonds completely resorbed to co2 gas. I have read reports from a doctor of geology who spent a summer studying these Kansas intrusions north of Manhattan. Thank you for watching my videos and for commenting. Happy gem hunting!!!

It IS a funny coincidence that you were just there then you watched my video where I mentioned those kimberlite intrusion north of Manhattan, Kansas. Diamonds, garnets, and ilmenite are denser than other rocks and minerals, but not nearly as dense as gold. Still, you will find a concentration of them at the bottom of a creek. Here is a link to a video I recorded about 30 years ago when my then teenage son and I visited The Stockdale Intrusion where we had permission to dig: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ZpOnlsxk287Vmps.html

@@genuinediamondsinar3253 That’s nice you got access to that site. I tried to drive near one of the Randolph locations, but the roads weren’t that great and I didn’t see anybody around, so I left. Do you think most of the garnets are near the sources due to their density? There’s likely not much to find around the lake than what I mentioned. My recreational efforts might be better spent elsewhere next time.

@@FreshUF The best concentration of garnets would be directly downstream from each site. You don't have to get anyone's permission to dig at a county road culvert. I suggest you just figure out by google maps where each site is then follow the roads around the one-square-mile sections until you find the low spot, creek, or ditch that drains each one, pull over and dig there. I am confident you will find abundant garnets.

Yes, I have visited most of those intrusions north of Manhattan decades ago. The people I spoke to for permission at that time I am sure are no longer living because they were elderly at that time. There are no diamonds there. All of those intrusions came up too slowly and all of the diamonds were resorbed out of those kimberlites. BUT you can find A LOT of garnets and ilmenites there. You should go and visit the area. If you can't get permission from the ranchers or farmers, you could dig in the creeks that flow off of these weathered, kimberlite pipes. There would be a good concentration of these minerals in the nearby creeks.

Here is a link to a video I made there when my oldest son was a teenager. He is now 47. So, this was over three decades ago: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mdthadyBspm4img.html

I sure would if I had that kind of money. The owners KNOW they have diamonds on that land. It's for sale if you want it and can afford it. Let me know, and I can hook you up with them. They're selling their 60 acres for $2 million. I got this 10 acres with a much smaller portion of the lamproite pie for MUCH less because the owner wasn't sure whether it had diamonds on it or not. No one had ever sampled there---until we bought it.

I am glad you find my talks helpful. We do not have black diamonds here in SW AR--only white (clear), brown, and yellow. Yes, they could have been ejected a mile or so. But there has been so much erosion since they are probably in the Gulf of Mexico by now.

@@genuinediamondsinar3253 Well Sir that narrows the list down to Canada or outer space. The story's a rock can tell. Got some white and yellowish small frys from the same glacial till. Right now I'm planning another sortie for beryl, chrysoberyl and diamonds. I don't fancy the corundum as its aluminium oxide. The silicates can sit it out too Yuk! I like the glacial/alluvial stuff. Its perfect for a lazy dabler like me. To me its interesting how you identify and extract gems from lamporite. Thanks for the geological tip and may your next run bring great finds.

Our diamond ore is identical to the Crater of Diamonds. We are so very close I expect it came up from the same source 100 miles deep. Yes, there could be diamonds encased in pieces at the Crater. Our site has been covered with forest and no one has sampled here before. We had it clear cut and are the first to ever dig for diamonds here. Yes, we have found diamonds.

@@genuinediamondsinar3253 that's dope

You found diamonds or you found kimberlite, lamproite or lamprophyre?

I have found a lot of baby blue barite at the Crater of Diamonds. But no one has ever found a blue diamond there....yet.

@genuinediamondsinar3253 it's smooth like a dimond and has that silver look to it when the sun shines on it. And dark blue. Probably not a dimond but cool if it was

@@jasonbaxter5502 That is a cool find whatever it is. I can't imagine what you found. Maybe it is a natural, blue sapphire.

I have a Presidium II Gem Tester that would tell us what it is. Are you going to be around Murfreesboro, Arkansas, next Tues, Wed, or Thurs? If so, we could meet and test it. It'd love for you to learn what it is, and I would like to see it, too.

@@genuinediamondsinar3253 I will be the 13 and 14 in January.

Your question shows you are really giving some thought to this. Thank you for posing this question. But only 27% of diamonds will fluoresce under blacklight. And, unfortunately, 100% of barite will fluoresce. Therefore, if you surface searched with a blacklight you would get a lot of false positives and miss 73% of the diamonds. So, I would not suggest doing it.

@@genuinediamondsinar3253 that's why I asked you.. Thanks That ancient fault line is mind blowing.. Joe Rogan only has experts on his show you should be on it..You're knowledge on diamonds is truly top notch A1..!!ii..(GOAT) “Greatest Of All Time ”

@@kingxenomorph3056 So that's why everyone calls me an old goat. I guess I should stop punching people in the eye for that comment. I've never taken a single geology class, but I read and I worked in diamond exploration for 3 years. I asked the geologists I worked with a lot of questions.

Yes, we own a portion of one of the 7, known, diamondiferous intrusions located within 3 miles of Arkansas' Crater of Diamonds State Park. I am Glenn W. Worthington, the author of the book, "Genuine Diamonds Found In Arkansas."

I laid awake all night one night coming up with that name "Worthington Diamond Mine." Ha!

What state are you in? Most states have a geology commission or university with a geology department that all can help for free. Here we have the Arkansas Geological Survey in Little Rock.

Yah that's the thing I've been to ours which is colorado school of mines they for some reason were beat around the bush🤔

The area in which I found this Mineral was on the outer bottom flat edge of a caldera in saguche county

I have pictures of the samples . I talk ed to a friend who said I could try the molly Grease pan test.

@@johnchonka2052 That is too bad. I'd suggest you try the university in Boulder. They have a great geology department. They should help you. They are government funded.

I've taken some college courses but never got a degree and the colleges I attended did not offer geology courses. Unfortunately, I can't go back 50 years and get a do over. I'd love to have studied geology at say the University of Colorado at Boulder and make field trips up to the diamond-bearing kimberlites of the state line district--the border of CO and WY. My wife and I went there and looked around but found a lot of locked gates and unwelcoming ranchers. College classes could have gotten in, though. But no one is mining the numerous kimberlites of the stateline district anymore. We have the only operating diamond recovery plant in the USA.

There is nothing incorrect with the information I presented.

Yeah I know you made a good video, what i mean is a closer video to see the stone or rocks that you presented my friend thats my point..

@@amateurboxing4806 Okay, I understand now. I will give that a shot in the near future. Good idea. I appreciate your input.