Geologist says diamonds came from space

BY NOAH BIERMAN
The Miami Herald

Filed 2.13.07

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.

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