Patrick Fullovit has struck it rich. No one knew much about him except that he lived in a houseboat on Horseguard Lake all summer and icefished all winter while staying in an old holiday trailer. This spring he decided to move up to the Nordegg area and try some gold panning. His fortunes soon changed.
“ This old guy came in with a huge rock and was babbling about diamonds,” recalls the owner of Nordegg Resort Lodge. “ We hardly payed any attention. But then he came in every day with some new ‘diamond nuggets’, as he called them. No one knows exactly where he is getting these stones from and he is very leery of telling anyone.”
Mr. Fullovit was long rumoured to be an eccentric millionaire, and from the amount of digging equipment he has brought in it seems that he has no lack of funds. He has formed a new company called Bree-Z and is in the process of opening a mining operation near Nordegg.
Hundreds of fortune seekers are combing the mountainsides and gullies looking for diamonds, but so far have come up dry. The diamond rush seems to be just beginning. “ It reminds me of when all the city folk were out here looking for the eggs of the wild Nord bird. They searched and wandered around a couple of summers in a row. It was ridiculous. Everyone knows that the Nord bird flies farther North for the summer and only comes back here in the winter to lay its eggs. They put their nests high on the mountains and you would never get up there in the snow.”
Conservational activists are in an uproar over the possibility of a new mine. Government representatives have assured them that all steps to reduce the damage to the area will be taken by Bree-z.
Well assuming he has found a Kimberlite pipe (which is how diamonds come up to the surface from deep in the earth) then he will have possibly found some diamonds.
All diamonds come from deep in the earth and are not created without immense pressure and heat.
I would take it with a pinch of salt without a proper geological survey being done.
I wonder how much this will impact the environment if there does need to be excess drilling? I do have to say that this guy is lucky to have found some diamonds, I heard its becoming rare.