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RE: Crater of Diamonds

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Bob Wehle of Ripon, Wisconsin, visiting the Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro found a 5.47-carat canary diamond on Oct. 14.

www.craterofdiamondsstatepark.com

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A Texas couple found a 6.35-carat diamond Saturday at the Arkansas Crater of Diamonds State Park. The diamond was the eighth largest found at the site since it became a state park in 1972. It also was the largest diamond find in eight years, according to a news release from the park.
Donald and Brenda Roden of Point, Texas, named their gem the Roden Diamond; they weren't certain Saturday if they would eventually sell it.

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Ms Melissa Lacey of Knoxville, Tennessee has found a 1.30-carat diamond while gem hunting in Arkansas' Crater of Diamonds State Park.

"I wasn't expecting to find anything and was just picking up pretty rocks" .

At first, she thought the light yellow diamond was "a piece of dirty quartz." But it was soon identified as a diamond by park staff.
The diamond was about the size of a pea.
The largest white diamond, (weighed 40.23 carats, and now known as Uncle Sam) discovered in the U.S was unearthed there in 1924.
The Crater of Diamonds, an 886-acre natural park south of Murfreesboro, is the only diamond mine in North America open to the public.
The Park allows the public to search and keep any gems found.

Arkansas Free Geologic Map (PDF)

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Latitude: 34.03156 N Longitude: -93.67232 W