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Crater of Diamonds visitor makes 2.2-carat discovery
UPI News Service, 05/27/2021
A Washington state man s three days of searching at Arkansas Crater of Diamonds State Park paid off when he uncovered a 2.2-carat yellow diamond.
ADVERTISEMENT Christian Liden, 26, of Poulsbo, Wash., said he has been on a longtime quest to find raw materials to make his own engagement ring, and he came to Crater of Diamonds after five years of panning for enough gold in Washington to make the band.
Liden said he and a friend had been searching the park for three days when he made a big discovery May 9.
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On the Labour Day weekend, Kinard and some friends went back to the park and he picked up anything that looked shiny or interesting. By the end of the day, he had a bag full of rocks, but nothing that looked like a diamond. In fact, he was not even going to get them checked. However, one of his friends thought they might have found something, so Kinard decided to go to the ranger’s station and submit his collection as well. To Kinard’s surprise, not only had he found a diamond, it was the second largest diamond in the history of the park. Kinard went home with a 9.7 carat diamond that was worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.