Diamonds Fell From Space, Florida Geologist Theorizes
Sunday Gazette-Mail › February 19, 2007
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MIAMI - Professor Stephen Haggerty retrieves a 730-carat black diamond - the size of an apple - from his desk. It's nearly impossible to cut, potentially billions of years old and, he believes, a product of outer space.
Haggerty, 68, is a man driven by diamonds to far and dangerous places - Siberia, where he met his wife; the Ivory Coast; Sierra Leone; Liberia. But he is entranced neither by diamonds' beauty nor their cash value. He gives his wife emeralds.See the full content of this document
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Diamonds Fell From Space, Florida Geologist Theorizes
Diamonds, for him, are a "window" into the earth's core and its history, "natural antiques." To him, the diamonds are less valuable than the geology lessons they contain.
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