Posted
10/19/2004 05:15:00 PM
by Douglas
Microscopic Diamond Found in Montana. The bright green rocks jutting through the prairie soil were hard to miss, but Tom Charlton still couldn't believe his eyes. It was kimberlite, the molten rock in which diamonds are found, and preliminary tests had yielded a microscopic diamond.
If more are found at the 80-acre site known as the Homestead property, the land could become the state's first-ever commercial diamond operation and the only working diamond mine in the United States, geologists said.
Now, if I only had a mine in Montana, and/or knew a geologist, I could head up there with my microscopic shovel and microscopic mule, and I'd make a microscopic
fortune!