Tracy Hall grew up with my grandfather. Amazing man.

Sep 11, 2024
9:41:39am

AZ Coug Political Junky

I met Tracy's brother Don a few years ago before he passed away and he told me some cool stories about Tracy and the diamonds.

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Fun little rabbit hole I found with a BYU connection: lab-grown diamond history

NavyCougar

Sep 11, 9:36am

Tragic that natural diamonds are still marketed as "superior".

bleedsblue

Sep 11, 9:37am

Moissanite is the way. No one can tell the difference anyways

ElCapo

Sep 11, 9:38am

Yeah….. not so much. But lab grown are great. The best way to spot a lab grown

DiamondMo

Sep 11, 9:42am

Yeah, the lack of slave blood really diminishes the look.

bleedsblue

Sep 11, 9:50am

Tracy Hall grew up with my grandfather. Amazing man.

AZ Coug

Sep 11, 9:41am

Hall was Henry Eyring's (father of Henry B Eyring) first grad student at Utah -

NarfUte

Sep 11, 10:35am

US synthetic is here in Orem and they make synthetic diamonds for drilling.

Powerbait DPM

Sep 11, 9:51am

thats an awesome activity idea

LeonMarek

Sep 11, 10:01am

It was one of my favorites and if I’m ever a priest leader I’m doing it.

Powerbait DPM

Sep 11, 11:18am

I remember in college US Synthetic made the “Provo Rose” which was a fancy pink

DiamondMo

Sep 11, 10:02am

Our Stake President is(was?) President of US Synthetic. One of my best friends

m0resn0w

Sep 11, 10:23am

Is he absolutely loaded? If so it was probably him the guy was talking about

Powerbait DPM

Sep 11, 11:20am

Yeah...he's not hurting. Haha

m0resn0w

Sep 11, 11:40am

Visited US synthetic and Megadiamond a few times. Their process is really cool

NarfUte

Sep 11, 10:17am

My dad was hired by megadiamond while he was still a student at BYU

scottpete

Sep 11, 11:47am

When I was a student in the 90s, one of Hall's tetrahedral presses was still in

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