Woman Finds 2.63-Carat Diamond At Arkansas State Park
- 6 years ago
A woman recently made the "find of a lifetime."
A 71-year-old Colorado woman has hit a veritable jackpot at the Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas after finding a 2.63-carat diamond.
According to a news release by state's parks department, the discovery was made earlier this month by an unnamed woman who had been in the diamond search area for about 10 minutes when she picked up what she thought may have been a piece of glass.
She had her son hold on to it, and when they went to the park's Diamond Discovery Center to have their findings examined by staff, they learned she had found a 2.63-carat ice white diamond--the largest uncovered thus far in 2018.
The woman reportedly said at the time, "I didn't know what to think. I was shocked!"
While the value of the diamond is unclear, she gets to keep it--as do all the visitors of the park which was formed largely as a result of geologic and volcanic activity from 3 billion years ago.
ABC News reports that more than 182,000 people visited the site in 2017--for an entrance fee of $10 each--finding 445 diamonds in all.
And the state park news release says: "More than 75,000 diamonds have been unearthed at the Crater of Diamonds since the first diamonds were found here in 1906 by John Huddleston, a farmer who owned the land long before it became an Arkansas State Park in 1972."
The largest diamond that has ever been found there weighed in at 40.23 carats. It was discovered in 1924.
A 71-year-old Colorado woman has hit a veritable jackpot at the Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas after finding a 2.63-carat diamond.
According to a news release by state's parks department, the discovery was made earlier this month by an unnamed woman who had been in the diamond search area for about 10 minutes when she picked up what she thought may have been a piece of glass.
She had her son hold on to it, and when they went to the park's Diamond Discovery Center to have their findings examined by staff, they learned she had found a 2.63-carat ice white diamond--the largest uncovered thus far in 2018.
The woman reportedly said at the time, "I didn't know what to think. I was shocked!"
While the value of the diamond is unclear, she gets to keep it--as do all the visitors of the park which was formed largely as a result of geologic and volcanic activity from 3 billion years ago.
ABC News reports that more than 182,000 people visited the site in 2017--for an entrance fee of $10 each--finding 445 diamonds in all.
And the state park news release says: "More than 75,000 diamonds have been unearthed at the Crater of Diamonds since the first diamonds were found here in 1906 by John Huddleston, a farmer who owned the land long before it became an Arkansas State Park in 1972."
The largest diamond that has ever been found there weighed in at 40.23 carats. It was discovered in 1924.