![]() ![]() Villagers continued to arrive in cars, autorickshaws, buses and trucks from surrounding villages like Jaggaiahpet, Pendyala, Nandigama, Kanchikacharla, Ibrahimpatnam, Tiruvur and Chillakallu. Rumours spread fast and thick and spoke of traders arriving from Vijayawada, Hyderabad and Mumbai and pitching their tents at Paritala and Kanchikacharla over three days before Tuesday and buying up stones for as much as a million rupees. It is not known how the rumour spread, but Paritala soon turned into a frontier town full of diamond diggers and wild rumours. Krishna district police confirmed the diamond rush. She refused to divulge her name as she was afraid either local government officials or the police might take away her "God-sent wealth." On Tuesday another woman from Paritala village said she had sold a 'diamond' for Rs700,000. On Monday at least eight people sold diamonds for between Rs100,000 and Rs150,000."Īnother Paritala resident, who refused to be named because diamond-hunting is illegal, said she made $14,580 dollars a staggering sum in India on a Paritala diamond. ![]() I was lucky to find two small diamonds and many precious stones. "Over a dozen people from our village managed to sell stones worth 100,000 to 200,000 rupees ($2,080 to $4,160) to these traders over the last few days," said Paritala resident Rajkumar Sambhaiah.Īnother claimed: "More than 20,000 people dug the bed of the village pond for diamonds for three days. The lake, emptied by a prolonged dry spell, lies next to the abandoned Krishna diamond fields, source of the world-famous 186-carat Kohinoor diamond. Tens of thousands of fortune- hunters set off a 'diamond rush' in Paritala village in the western part of Krishna district in search of rough gems lying on the bed of a dried-out lake.Īround 30,000 people have rushed to the Paritala Lake in Andhra Pradesh this week hoping to snap up diamonds apparently washed away from a nearby abandoned gem field, according to officials.
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