Diamonds fell from space, Florida geologist theorizes From: Sunday Gazette-Mail | Date: February 18, 2007| Author: Noah Bierman | Copyright 2007 Sunday Gazette-Mail. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

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.

Diamonds, for him, ar...

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