Posted on 03/25/2006 7:59:50 PM PST by txroadkill
Associated Press
MURFREESBORO, Ark. A Kansas woman and her 12-year-old son have a 2.12-carat diamond to take back home with them after a vacation in Arkansas.
A news release Saturday from the state Parks and Tourism Department said the pair Jennifer Jones of Derby, Kansas, and her son Jacob Ballard found the gem Friday at Crater of Diamonds State Park.
Crater of Diamonds State Park is the world's only diamond-producing site open to seaching by the public.
According to the news release, Jones and her son found the diamond as they looked near an old mine shaft building in the park's 37-acre diamond search area, which is regularly plowed to turn up new soil. Jones said her son tossed a rock and it knocked some dirt off the top of a mound of soil and there sat the gem on top of what remained of the mound.
Park interpreter Rachel Engebrecht said the light yellow, oval-shaped diamond about the size of an english pea is transparent, like a dewdrop, and appears to be of gem quality, a nearly flawless raw diamond.
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This story is not so unusual! Many sizeable gems have been found there. The ratio of visitors to find diamonds is quite high as well.
I wouldn't know an uncut, unpolished gemstone if it passed through my eurethra. I'd notice it, but wouldn't keep it.
That said, I have been fooled by fake diamonds, much to my ex-wife's dismay :/
As a kid I traveled with my dad to that diamond mine. It resembled a field. Folks were out there checking out the stones. I basicly veged out while the adults scrabled. Ah, fond memories. LOL
I also remember driving down an Arkansas road in the same section of the state, picking up a few naturally magnetic rocks.
These were the days... sigh.
Catch "Diamond Fever" at the Crater of Diamonds in Murfreesboro
Seems you have eureka and urethra plowed under together; LOL, couldn't pass it up
Once Russia began exporting their Siberian Diamonds DeBeers monopoly was broken!!!
Today I got a haircut and the reading material available at this haircut store were, Ladies Home Journal, People, US etc... etc. Gone are the days of "True", Playboy. and World Net Daily!!!!..and our children suffer with stunted reading skills because True ain't around no more!
I only subscribed to Playboy for the articles and cartoons!
Regrettably, those are now also gone.
Today, I realized that the feminization of America is complete when I ripped a paper towel off the roll and got half a sheet.
What man in America would want or find a use for half a paper towel?
LMAO...
So, what's it's worth?
It might be 'fun' to 'salt' this mine with lots of zircons...
You should have seen the surprised, then disgusted, reaction from my husband the first time that happened to him. lol. It's just another of life's little inconveniences for him - trying carefully to tear a paper towel from the roll so as to get a whole instead of a half sheet!
I will have to admit that my first reaction was surprise, and a sense of satisfaction. I hadn't considered it a feminine thing - just another convenient option. lol.
I love them. Folded over with a bottle of Windex spray make great moniter cleaners. Keep 5-6 of them right by the puter.
So how much is it worth?
That price us for a cut diamond. The one they found isn't worth a whole lot until it is cut. Based on the quality and shape of the raw stone it might yield a cut stone of a much smaller size or not at all.
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