How a Rogue Geologist Discovered Diamonds

Posted by timothy on Friday December 12, 2008 @04:11AM from the with-maps-microscopes-and-strippers dept.

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."

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so i was following this old lady by circletimessquare · 2008-12-12 05:12 · Score: 0, Troll

for 10 minutes, and she had her blinker on the whole time
it made me so angry, at a stop light i got out my car and beat the shit out of her
not really
but i think you might know the feeling

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Re:He's not really a rogue. by Fizzl · 2008-12-12 06:55 · Score: 0, Troll

Why is this troll, you cock sucking motherfuckers?

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