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A Baton Rouge, LA woman visiting Arkansas’ Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro found an apparently flawless 2.09-carat white diamond the size of a tooth.
Rhonda Bankston reportedly says she found out about the park’s surface diamond prospecting on a show about finding cash and treasure. She was into her second day of prospecting by surface searching over a newly plowed field with friends when she spotted the gem.
The park is located on the eroded surface of the world’s eighth largest diamond-bearing deposit and visitors pay a fee to surface search there.
Named the Dream Angel, Bankston found the gem near where the largest diamond unearthed in the United States was found in 1924, the 40.23-carat Uncle Sam diamond.
Park officials say the Dream Angel was the 851st diamond found at the park this year.
Bankston has said she will decide whether to keep the gem or sell it after it is appraised, according to reports.
Via allheadlinenews
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