Patti Kubli, discovered a flawless, 3.17-carat yellow diamond at the Crater of Diamonds State Park earlier this week. It was the Pennsylvania resident's first visit to the state park. Kubli had been surface searching for about ½ an hour when she noticed it shining in the dirt.
Kubli named the diamond after her mother, calling it The Dorie Diamond. Her diamond was weighed and certified by the park staff. According to Park Interpreter Margi Jenks, the discovery is “Slightly pear-shaped, this diamond is an intense canary yellow and it’s extremely shiny. She commented that the diamond was about the size of a jellybean.
Jenks said the park policy is finder-keepers. “What park visitors find in the diamond search area is theirs to keep.” Crater of Diamonds State Park is the world’s only diamond-producing site open to the public. Diamonds come in all colors of the rainbow. The three most common colors found at the park are white, brown and yellow, in that order.
The Park interpretive programs and exhibits explain the site’s geology and history and offer tips on recognizing diamonds in the rough. In total, over 75,000 diamonds have been unearthed at Arkansas’s diamond site since the first diamonds were found here in 1906 by John Huddleston, the farmer who at that time owned the land long before it became an Arkansas state park.
The largest diamond ever discovered in the United States was unearthed here in 1924 during an early mining operation. Named the Uncle Sam, this white diamond with a pink cast weighed 40.23 carats. Other large notable finds from the Crater include the Star of Murfreesboro (34.25 carats) and the Star of Arkansas (15.33 carats).
Over 40 different semi-precious gems and minerals are found at the Crater of Diamonds, Stones include amethyst, garnet, peridot, jasper, agate, calcite, barite, and quartz.
Crater of Diamonds State Park is located two miles southeast of Murfreesboro. It is one of the 52 state parks administered by the State Parks Division of the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism.
For more information, contact: Justin Dorsey, park superintendent, Crater of Diamonds State Park, 209 State Park Road, Murfreesboro, Arkansas 71958. Phone: 870-285-3113. E-mail: justin.dorsey@arkansas.gov. Or visit craterofdiamondsstatepark.com.
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Wow, great find!!! I'd love to visit that park one day.
And that is reason enough to come visit Arkansas. Maybe one day I'll get the chance to find my own diamond. How exciting!
Just a matter of keeping your eyes open (plus being in the right place at the right time and having a ton of luck).
Bet the park was swamped after that find. Hmmm, where did you say it was?
How coincidental is it that the quarter looks like it has a diamond on it and a diamond was right next to it? Can you say planted? Hmm.....still a good story.
the quarter in the photo is no coincidence. When Kubli noticed a diamond on the Arkansas quarter, it made her curious. When she found out (on the internet) why the diamond is on the Arkansas quarter, she planned her visit to the state park.
to learn more about Crater of Diamonds State Park go to their website.
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