Gold and Diamonds...Not done yet!

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Thought I was done for the winter but I tried another park hoping it wasn't froze over and luckily it wasn't.
I had been using the Compadre for the last several weeks but I think I used up the mojo so I switched to my well rested F2.
I really wanted to find some big gold so I was digging tabs, nickel and zinc signals...too much friken tiny foil so I knocked out that and iron.
Wouldn't you know it, at an area next to a basketball court that I had hit before with the F2 and the 8" coil, the sniper coil found me a little something I missed.
14k and I think real diamonds, and I will check out those stones at my club meeting this weekend.
A 32 on the F2, low nickel like a few of the sta-tabs I had dug in this park, but this was no tab or nickel!
My nicest ring so far, my first white gold and if they are real, the most diamonds, too.

 

[LabradorBob]

very nice, yep you gotta dig all the signals to get the gold!
Many congrats

 

[billpa]

Very nice !!!

 

[Florida Keys Pirate]

Sweet find ! That's a beaut !

 

[Goldstrike]

Super nice ring!! persistence paid off big time!!!

 

[goldcoin]

Super nice ring!! persistence paid off big time!!!

Congrats,nice dig,

 

[Ks Coyote]

Congrats on a great ring.

 

[TwoRivers]

That is a nice find for sure..........congratulations!!

 

[Archimedes24]

Awesome! That's a great reminder to a new MD-er...dig everything!

 

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Met a fellow MD club member that used to manage jewelry stores at one of his old workplaces, a Helzberg Diamond store.
He introduced me to the current manager and then we all went into a little room to examine this ring under the microscope.

This ring holds approximately 3/8 of a carat in diamond weight.
They both came to the conclusion that the clarity of the baguettes were an SI1, the round diamonds were a little better at an SI2, but over all as a group they could be considered an SI2.

Slightly Included (SI1, SI2, & SI3)
Contains noticeable inclusions under 10x magnification, including clouds, knots, crystals, cavities, and feathers.

Color is in the range of I-J.

I,J (Near Colorless)
Contains slightly detectable color. An I-color or J-color diamond is an excellent value, as it typically appears colorless to the untrained eye.

From some research I found that thee ratings are considered a very good value and pretty popular because any defects and color would would not be seen with the naked eye and only under 10x's magnification so they would look close to flawless by most people.

The consensus is that at regular retail this would be a $1299.00 ring, selling it on the street I should expect somewhere around $800 as a good and fair price for both parties.

Sounds great to me.
Come spring I think the newest generation Black F75 SE might be in my future.

And to think I was just bending down to dig up a pull tab...

 

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