Cape May Diamonds

[trainermick]

Found a pile on Sunset Beach in South Jersey. Now I just need to figure out how to polish them up.

 

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[GTK96]

Always wondered what they looked like...my dad used to find handfulls and thought they were real diamonds...ha!

 

[NJnuggetpirate]

save them up lol they sell for $7.50 an ounce ahahaha

 

[TeAra]

If you have a tumbler that is your best best. Jewelers may also do it for you for a price.

 

[NJnuggetpirate]

how much to get them cut and or shaped

 

[TeAra]

Would probably need to ask someone who can do it or a jeweler.

 

[NJnuggetpirate]

lol oo you dont know how?

 

[TeAra]

Umm you would have to see my faceting outcomes lol not a pretty site yet lol. Using a dremel to facet is not that easy. But I am still learning. Tell you who would probably know...EU.

 

[NJnuggetpirate]

capemay diamonds are quartz right?

 

[TeAra]

Yes they are.

 

[NJnuggetpirate]

did you know quartz can actually harvest energy in it

 

[TeAra]

Each type of quartz has its own kind..I keep smokey quartz around for its energies.

 

[NJnuggetpirate]

yes i like tigereye now thats not clear quartz but its still quartz

 

[TeAra]

very good stone to have around

 

[Don in SJ]

Sunset beach is one of our favorite places to visit, year round, my grandson was right by the rock jetty at the concrete ship this July and the concentration of stones was really thick that day, well, he found some of the small ones, but his find of the day was a fossilized shark tooth, his first ever, as he held it up so I could take a photo of it, he dropped it! Half hour later we had to say uncle and he had to chalk it up to a life learning experience....
The bigger Cape May "Diamonds" I have found over the years have been inland, I used to walk the sugar sand roads of the pine barrens after a rain and they were easy to spot, biggest one found the size of an egg, but with inclusions, but did find one shaped like an unshelled peanut and same size with no inclusions, that one could get cut if I ever wanted to get it done.

Don

 

[TeAra]

oh no that is sad for him to have lost his first find

 

[NJnuggetpirate]

lol keep it close like you would with your firearm in the hood ahaha