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Gold Ring # 16 and a Pea Gravel Diamond Hunt
- Thread starter tabdog
- Start date
Joel-Winnipeg
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Belated birthday present in that ring find.
Nice gold that you found.
Nice gold that you found.
Nice looking gold.....a birthday present from the ring gods 
echostar61
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Very Nice Ring Find TD, Great B'Day present fo the Big 60 
Terri
Terri
Years ago. The water was 80ft deep and a mud botom. It was assumed to be lost.
3 years later the wife of another friend lost a couple of lead diving weights at the same spot. There is a mooring there. A buddy went down to look for them and getting to the bottom and finding it to be mud thought he might find the weights if he could see the "dents" where the lead landed. He held his dive light so the beam was nearly flat across the bottom and gets a bright flash as he scanned across the bottom.
He had found the ring. The funny thing was he had not heard that my friend had lost one there. Funnier still was that every body on the boat knew the story. So up he comes and proudly displays the ring and gets greeted by a chorus of "Mariam's ring!". His response was WTF is Mariam!
He did have the pleasure of meeting Mariam later that day and made a call to his wife asking if she minded him giving a younger women a diamond ring!
On recounting how he found it he said. Nothing gleams like a diamond in the dark!
And that is my diamond story.
HH and Happy B'day. You know that diamond is waiting for you!
1859
3 years later the wife of another friend lost a couple of lead diving weights at the same spot. There is a mooring there. A buddy went down to look for them and getting to the bottom and finding it to be mud thought he might find the weights if he could see the "dents" where the lead landed. He held his dive light so the beam was nearly flat across the bottom and gets a bright flash as he scanned across the bottom.
He had found the ring. The funny thing was he had not heard that my friend had lost one there. Funnier still was that every body on the boat knew the story. So up he comes and proudly displays the ring and gets greeted by a chorus of "Mariam's ring!". His response was WTF is Mariam!
He did have the pleasure of meeting Mariam later that day and made a call to his wife asking if she minded him giving a younger women a diamond ring!
On recounting how he found it he said. Nothing gleams like a diamond in the dark!
And that is my diamond story.
HH and Happy B'day. You know that diamond is waiting for you!
1859
echostar61
New member
WOW, What a Great Story , Thanks for sharing it 
Terri
Terri
silvernail
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Welcome to the Upper Middle Age bracket! I got some doubts that the big stone would be a diamond in that mount.. it would be a whopper if so. Not even sure it was made to hold another stone. You might run it by a jeweler for an opinion on whether it was really made to hold another rock. If so, it might have been an emerald or ruby or maybe a garnet or even amethyst. You have a problem I have thought about but never actually had yet. My projected-imaginary search design is 1, Make sure I can get back to the Exact Location of the find, 2. Go back with a small, clean up-sized gold pan and a bucket of water so I can wash the mud & dust off the surrounding material that I have put in the pan, then carefully thumb through the suitable small pebbles that have been cleaned. A cut stone should show up well under a little water and good light. 3. Alternatively, I could do roughly the same thing with a little frame with some window screen tacked over it. The parks people probably won't crab too much if you put all the material back in the hole. If somebody wants to know WTF I am doing, I can come up with some yarn that amounts to the exact truth of the matter. Sounds like a fair weather project. In your case, take your gang with you - or at lest one armed guard to watch your back. Good luck.