A few months ago FakeMinerals.com broke the story that a man named Eric Blake, who was operating a website selling “Genuine Arkansas Diamonds” was importing diamonds from India for $50 per carat, then pretending to find them at the world’s only open diamond mine, getting them certified as such, then reselling them in the neighborhood of $1,000 per carat.

This report was read by over 30,000 people over the past few months and the subject of several articles and TV reports.

Here is one of the TV spots you can watch…

http://www.katv.com/news/stories/0508/518509.html

To our knowledge, the wheels of justice move very slowly and until we find out to the contrary, no charges have been filed. Of course, if something does happen, you’ll hear about it here on FakeMinerals.com

Also note, the digger featured in the video above just made worldwide headlines finding a 4.42 carat diamond on August 16th. Named the “Kimberly Diamond”, this beauty is exactly what we come to expect Diamonds from the Crater of Diamonds State Parke to look like!