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Where are diamonds
found around the World?
Where are diamonds
found around the World? Natural diamond sources have been discovered in
approximately 35 different countries around the World across several
continents. Russia, Botswana and South Africa are the world’s major gem
quality diamond producers and Australia is the major industrial diamond
producer. The most notable diamond deposits are in Africa. Details of
world locations are as follows: - Africa - South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, the Democratic
Republic of Congo, Angola, Tanzania and Sierra Leone
India- Russia - Siberia
- South America - Brazil
- Australia - Northern and Western Australia
- China
- United States - Arkansas (Crater of Diamond State Park) Colorado
and Wyoming
- Canada - see
Canadian Diamonds
The Names of
the States where diamonds are found
The Arkansas, Wyoming and Colorado are the only states to have a
verifiable source of diamonds, however significant research efforts are
being made in the United States are under way to locate other possible
sources.
Where diamonds are
found in the United States - Arkansas
In 1906 John Huddleston sold his diamond-bearing
land for $36,000 to a group of men who began the Arkansas Diamond
Company. Horace Bemis bought the adjacent land and formed the Ozark
Diamond Corporation. Despite the yield of diamonds
no one was able to make a fortune. Both of these plots of Arkansas land
were opened as tourist attractions and both plots were eventually
purchased in 1969 by General Earth Minerals of Dallas, Texas who
continued to run the land as tourist attractions until 1972 when the State Of Arkansas bought the land for $750,000. It is called the Crater of Diamonds State Park
of Arkansas.
The Crater of Diamonds State Park is the only publicly owned diamond
site in the world where visitors may search for diamonds and keep what
they find! The land has yielded over 70,000
diamonds including the
Kahn Canary
Diamond and the
Uncle Sam
Diamond
Where diamonds
are found in the United States - Colorado
The state of
Colorado has been linked with diamonds since 1875 when two unscrupulous
prospectors convinced the president of the Bank of California that
they had found a rich diamond field. Their claims were a hoax - they had
sprinkled the land themselves with gemstones! Kimberlite was then
discovered in the late 1960's at the Colorado-Wyoming state line area in
Larimer County, Colorado. In 1975 diamonds were recovered from unique
volcanic structures called diatremes (the upper portions of these
volcanic structures) which were located northwest of Fort Collins,
Colorado. It was an almost unbelievable coincidence that the diamond
deposit site was only 150 miles away from the prospectors hoax diamond
field! In 1996, the Kelsey Lake mine began mining on a commercial
scale and in 1997, the Kelsey Lake Mine produced a 28.18 carat yellow
diamond. The mine was closed in 1998 but there are some plans to
re-open.
Where diamonds
are found in the United States - Wyoming
Diamond Kimberlite
pipes have been found in Wyoming, near the Colorado-Wyoming state line
area referred to as the Aultman, Ferris and Schaffer kimberlites.
The Herkimer
Diamond Mine and the Ace Of Diamonds Mine - New York
The Herkimer Diamond
Mines and the Ace Of Diamonds Mine are not underground mines but are strip mines
in the form a gravel pit. There are no diamonds! But faceted quartz
crystals with points at both ends are found in this area.
Source of Diamonds
The source of the diamond is a fascinating subject. This page was designed
to clarify where they can be found around the world, in the United
States and the meaning of Kimberlite, Placer
Deposits and Alluvial deposits.
Diamonds are Forever...
An Impartial Guide to Diamonds
Facts - Information - Guide - Where are diamonds found around the world
and United States?
Kimberlite - Placer
deposits - Alluvial deposits
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