Wet Sifting for Diamonds at Crater of Diamonds State Park

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  • Опубліковано 3 сер 2015
  • Wet sifting requires a lot of hard work, and previous experience is helpful. This method is usually preferred by the repeat or regular visitor, and involves digging deep holes, removing the right type soil, washing the soil in a series of screens and patiently hand sorting the concentrated gravels from the screens. Some searchers look for low areas in the field where diamonds may have settled out over the years, or for tailings from the earlier commercial mining plants of the 20's and 30's. Tailings are the waste gravel that went out of the plant. Over the years, these tailing piles were covered by topsoil. The experienced regular hunters look for the tiny gravel, dig it up and wash it again by hand, looking for the small diamonds.
    As always, you keep any diamonds you find at Crater of Diamonds State Park. Plan your visit: www.craterofdiamondsstatepark.com
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  • @ScottLRoyal
    @ScottLRoyal 5 років тому +7

    It's really not hard work. It's your mind that says "Hey I wanna find a diamond". From this point of motivation it is no longer work. It has become an playful labor of love. Although a dirty labor of love. Study the video well Young Jedi. Rock, Turn and Rock it some more. Tap, tap, tap... Repeat. Flip it and marvel at the pile of concentrates. And just possibly...

  • @lpfrankmann7046
    @lpfrankmann7046 5 років тому +3

    I like to know if I have a diamond how can I sell?

    • @shecathellraizerme2022
      @shecathellraizerme2022 5 років тому +1

      the park will grade it and certify it for you. Other wise raw diamonds are controlled

  • @garymiller6269
    @garymiller6269 5 років тому

    price

  • @gluglamana
    @gluglamana 7 років тому

    im 5 and what is this?

    • @BoltyGT
      @BoltyGT 8 місяців тому

      Now 11.

  • @segutierrez1
    @segutierrez1 5 років тому +2

    why the park owner does not do it himself with professional equipment and keeps the money for himself, instead of charging people to do it, i believe he drops some on the ground to keep charging so people keep on gambling

    • @brodrick3164
      @brodrick3164 5 років тому +5

      It is a state owned park. The citizens of Arkansas own and make money from the park.

    • @christopherlang7283
      @christopherlang7283 4 роки тому +5

      we are the park owner, This a National Park.

    • @robsnider83
      @robsnider83 4 роки тому +5

      Also if you would have done a basic google search youd find that crater of diamonds has been commercially mined before. It doesnt yield enough to be profitable but it does yield enough diamonds to sustain it's current business model.