Firefoxes and foxfires.....................Dirty Harry as well.......with Mel. Streep..........Brid. of Madison. Co............


The Foxfire, named after the aboriginal description of the Northern Lights, which depicts the luminescent light as a “brush of undulating fox tails,” would have been crushed had it not been for its flattened shape which passed through the crushers unscathed.
Prior to its discovery such large gem-quality diamonds were not believed to exist in the area. The largest diamonds found over the previous decade measured 6 carats.
“The Foxfire is truly exceptional, one of the great treasures of the earth,” said Jeffrey Post, curator of the National Gem and Mineral Collection. “We are delighted that our visitors will have this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to view North America’s largest gem-quality diamond in its natural form.”