Diamond Dogs

October 4, 2015 9:51 PM

Mining diamonds from the street. (SLYT)
posted by loquacious (7 comments total)

That reminds me of the dude that would take the dirt found in the sidewalks of 5th avenue 47th street, then mine the gold/diamonds from it. Mostly, it was from jewelry.
posted by alex_skazat at 10:19 PM on October 4, 2015 [3 favorites]

Wow, his channel is great. Subscribed! AvE is another really good channel if you like this.
posted by scose at 3:31 AM on October 5, 2015 [1 favorite]

This is fun. Not sure what he'll do with those industrial diamonds, but the idea is cool.
posted by kinnakeet at 8:05 AM on October 5, 2015

Okay, I was expecting actual dogs, based on the title of this post. No dogs.

As for the diamonds, I wasn't expecting their colour to be so strong and saturated. Based on others I've seen, I thought the industrial grade diamonds would be that cloudy yellowish grey you see in really poor quality so-called jewellery grade diamonds. The recovered stones were closer to high-grade canaries in terms of colour. Sure they weren't clean, so their inclusion grade would be low, but I really thought they would have found their way into the jewellery pile instead of the industrial pile.
posted by sardonyx at 8:16 AM on October 5, 2015

TBH, I was expecting these Diamond Dogs. But this is good too...
posted by McCoy Pauley at 11:33 AM on October 5, 2015 [1 favorite]

Came across this guy's videos a few days ago. The one about extracting mercury from some rocks found in his back yard was amazing.
posted by chisel at 4:56 PM on October 5, 2015

Okay, I was expecting actual dogs, based on the title of this post. No dogs.

Probably for the best, given recent threads on the blue.
posted by phearlez at 12:09 PM on October 6, 2015