Hunting for Diamonds in Tasmania

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I’ve never seen a diamond in Tasmania..
And if you’re like most Tasmanians, you never knew they existed.
But rest assured, while tasmania may not rival South Africas diamonds for there size, It has in fact produced several, verified diamonds.
These are not to be confused with the ‘Killiecrankie Diamonds’ of Flinders Island, which is just a brilliant white topaz, Tasmanias diamonds are real diamonds, and take on the classical octahedral shape.
Comprised of just one element, Carbon, diamonds are formed over billions of years.
The pressure required to form a diamond is about 150kms below the earths surface, where the average temperature is 1000 degrees. Under these conditions the magma expands and breaks the earths surface in volcanos bringing diamonds bearing lava with it. Only about 1 in every 200 deposits contain diamonds. And these These special types of volcanic deposits are referred to as kimberlite deposits.
But the thing is tasmania doesn’t have any kimberlite deposits, And no one is really sure how the hell they ended up here.
The Fact of the matter is, in 1894 a mister L.Harvey bought two diamonds to Launceston which he had won from a creek in the corinna district.
These were ignored until 1906 when another diamond was found in the same creek later to be known as Harvey Creek. this stone was bought to the attention of a government geologist, MR. Petterd who verified ‘The Tasmanian Diamond has evident characteristics which distinguish it from gems found in the other parts of the world. tinted straw-yellow at the apex’
In 1918 government geologist William twelvetrees issued an information booklet on tasmanian diamonds, aimed to provided information for persons who may be engaged in sluicing sands for mineral, in localities in which diamond is a likely occurrence’.
in this he states ‘It is highly probable that the stones which have been found were merely companions of many others which still lie hidden in the gravels of that locality.’’These fields are now idle, but it is a warrantable supposition that diamonds are still in the gravels waiting to be removed.’ ‘It would be well, however, for all who are washing sands in this district for gold or osmiridium to be on the look-out for diamonds.’ And that ‘it is extremely improbable that any appreciable output of diamonds will result in any other way than in the course of gold (or osmiridium) winning.’
Sounds simple enough right? Just get to the creek and start panning… but A quick Research and the creek is noted as quite inaccessible, and that a helicopter might help…

But that’s never stopped us before.


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