Yes, it's true. I found a place where diamonds are far more common than DeBeers would like you to know. This is a place where you can walk for miles and diamonds are just under your feet no matter where you step. 

In order to understand how this can be so, let me fill you in on how I discovered and explored this incredibly beautiful and remote corner of the world and came home with a pocket full of raw diamonds - mostly gem quality. 

As many of you may already know about me, I love to explore used bookstores and libraries where ever I can find them. One day while spending hours in the University of Calgary library, I came across a book that is now out of print. The book was written by an explorer named Pino Turolla who spent many years investigating Ecuadorian archaeology.

However, at one point in his career, he was offered an opportunity to visit Venezuela, representing North American Rockwell, a large corporation with potential interests in diamond exploration in Venezuela. Pino was chosen because of his proven ability to enter and successfully explore very remote areas.  This was many years ago and although the area is still very remote, it is more accessible now than it was back then.

In his book there are two chapters devoted to his diamond prospecting adventures in Venezuela. The following quote, taken from Pino's book, describes just how rich in diamonds this area actually is:

On two of his trips into the most remote and unexplored part of the country, he had some very adventurous experiences. On his first trip he was attacked in a small lake by a school of aimaras, a very large cousin in the piranha family. He was severely injured which brought that trip to an immediate end. 

On his second trip he was confronted, nearly face to face, with an aggressive large primate known as El Mono Grande. Fortunately he was well armed and prepared for such an emergency. The animal quickly disappeared, though, before it became necessary to shoot it. His Indian guide's young son had been killed by one of these beasts several years earlier.

Pino was eventually able to complete his second expedition successfully. He spent just under a week investigating a number of small creeks in his target area. In each creek he was able to recover significant numbers of diamonds. When he went to Miami to meet with Rockwell representatives, the diamonds were evaluated.

It was found that he had collected 143 carats of diamonds, 70 percent of which were gem quality and 30 percent industrial grade. This was considered spectacular! For comparison, African diamond production has an average a yield of only 25 percent gem quality stones. 

(I have included the two chapters about Pino's Venezuela expeditions as a free bonus in my report, as his book is out of print and very difficult to find.) 

The diamond-bearing Venezuelan districts represent one of the most significant sources of "fancy" colored diamonds in the world; reddish, brown-reddish, pinks, blues, blue-green, greens, yellow-green, and so on, and their countless intermediate hues. In addition to the "fancy" colored varieties, colorless diamonds of various qualities and sizes are found there too. 

Soon after Pino's second trip to Venezuela, Rockwell laid off many employees and reorganized the company. In this reorganization process, the diamond project was dropped forever.

When I read these chapters in Pino's book, my mind began working overtime. I knew that I had to visit these creeks myself someday to confirm what I had read. Since the exact creeks from which he recovered the diamonds were not explicitly marked or shown in Pino's book, I decided to track him down to see if he would pinpoint the area for me.

It took a long time, but I finally located his wife Renee in the early 1990's. I was very saddened to learn that Pino had passed away some years earlier from a heart attack. I had so much looked forward to meeting him.

However Renee agreed to meet with me and answer my many questions about her husband's previous adventures and expeditions. Several weeks later I flew to meet with Renee who proved to be one of the nicest people I have ever met. She answered all of my questions and provided unique insights to the kind of remarkable man Pino was.

Just before I left, I asked her if anyone over the years had ever come to her as I had, asking about the specific locations of the diamonds. She replied that I was the first and only. That gave me hope that the sites would still be virgin.

Early in 1999, a convenient opportunity arrived and I was finally able to go to Venezuela to find those creeks. Armed with full backpacking gear and my one-of-a-kind treasure map of the secret creek locations, I was eager to get there.

I hired a small bush plane in Ciudad Bolivar, which dropped me off on the flat grasslands of the Grand Savanna in the middle of nowhere. It was obvious from my flight in and from where I stood on the ground that this area was still virgin and probably would be for hundreds of years to come. It was also obvious that hundreds of adventurers could potentially enter this vast area and never get in each other's way.

The pilot told me to shoot a flare toward any small airplane when I was ready to leave the region. This is the local way of hailing a bush plane as one would normally hail a taxi in the city. I hoped that it would work, as it would be a very long walk back to civilization otherwise.

With my GPS and "secret map", I began a two-week adventure of locating those creeks and seeing if there really were diamonds there. 

As it turned out, Pino was right, the whole area, for many miles, is laced with diamonds. The diamonds lie just underground everywhere as part of a massive alluvial deposit. Where ever creeks and rivers erode into this rich layer, the diamonds are exposed and lie in the river gravels. And I mean everywhere! 

If you are adventurous enough to go there, you could easily pay for your trip and then some. Pino told of one man he met in the area from Israel named David. David went to live in the Grand Savanna for a few years to mine diamonds so he could eventually return to Israel and buy a large ranch. Pino met David just before he filled up the last of 5 large coke bottles with diamonds. Two of David's diamonds were as large as almonds. 

Unfortunately I had arrived in the region too close to the rainy season. During my last few days it was impossible to get any work done as the rains were very strong and lasted nearly 24 hours per day. Finally I decided to pull the plug and get out.

A few days earlier I had come upon a small diamond mining operation owned by two Lebanese brothers. They kindly allowed me to stay in one of their huts and fed me several great feasts while I was with them. These guys were amazing hosts. Two days later their supply plane flew in and I was able to hitch a ride back to Ciudad Bolivar with the pilot.

I plan to return to the area in the coming year during the dry season. I am currently investigating a new high-tech device claimed to help actually see exposed alluvial diamonds. If this is true, it could have the capacity to turn an adventurous vacation into a fortune. 

My report, "Secret Diamond Sites of Venezuela Revealed", sells for only $16.95.   

My report includes the following:

1. more details of my personal trip into the area,

2. a copy of my one-of-a-kind treasure map pinpointing the      secret locations of the creeks where I found diamonds,

3. the optional overland route to reach my secret sites in two days in a rented 4 wheel drive vehicle,

4. details about the diamond-finding device I am investigating and where to find it on the web,

5. a suggested list of the gear and equipment you should take,

6. a description of the geology of the target area,

7. a general trip expense guide, and

8. very helpful Internet links to web sites of interest related to this project.

A few years ago I would have paid $1,000 for the information in my report. I had to get a lot of it in Ciudad Bolivar, as it was unavailable anywhere else, even in Caracas.

If you've ever wanted a first-class adventurous vacation, this is one of the best that I've ever seen. Oh yeah, I almost forgot to tell you... there are large, unique gold nuggets among the diamonds, side-by-side, in the same gravels. You might want to take a metal detector too.

As usual, my report comes with an 8 week 100% guarantee. 

I hope you love it and find some diamonds for yourself!

Good Luck,

Stan