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Saturday, March 18, 2017

Teen finds 7.44 carat diamond in an Arkansas state park

A teenager has found a 7.44 carat diamond at a state park in southwest Arkansas.

Kalel Langford was visiting Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro when he found the rock by a stream on Saturday.

The 14-year-old was in town with his parents for a baseball tournament when he found the diamond, which has been registered as the seventh largest found in the park since it was established in 1972.

An 8.52-carat diamond that was found in the same park in 2015 was estimated to be sold for $1 million last month, but the park hasn't given an estimate for Kalel's diamond, which is only one carat smaller.

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Duh, that's why it's called Crater of Diamonds. If he had found a banana tree there THAT would have been unusual!

Anonymous said...

The diamond is brown in color. Years ago that would hev only been suitable as a industrial diamond, but De beers and the jewelry chains have been marketing them as "Chocolate" diamonds to naive customers

Anonymous said...

What's the big deal with the diamond, anyway? It's a sparkly rock whose worth is arbitrarily determined by people in the business. It ranks at the top for expensive things without a practical use (unless you count bait as a use).

Anonymous said...

Similar to the U.S. dollar, its value is artificially set by a group of individuals and is in no way determined by the free market

Anonymous said...

You all sound like a bunch of broke AF republicans. Never could understand why the poorest folks with the least education fall for the GOP "we gonna take care of you" line.