[Rockhounds] : Nebraska teacher finds largest diamond of 2019 in Arkansas’ Crater of Diamonds State Park

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

I spent a little over half a day in the park with my kids during spring
break many years ago. Came home with a bucket of assorted rocks,
kimberlite, and gravel. And the story about the lady about 20 feet away who
found an 8.6 carat diamond. I stopped at the rock shop down the road from
the park and bought myself a little brown diamond to make up for the one
that got away. Biggest diamond that has come out of the park was about 40
carats, and the ranger told me the park has confirmed more than 75,000
diamonds since it opened.

Same spring break trip also had us digging quartz. And that is another mud
you don't want to go into if it is raining.

Kreigh

On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 7:40 PM Andrew Turner <turnea55 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I've been to Crater of Diamonds several times now, never found anything
> (don't go to that mud pit DURING a rainstorm).  There are some kimberlite
> outcrops on the very edges of the park, which are pretty interesting.
>
> I actually asked a related question to the park rangers when I was there.
> I asked about very small diamonds and what my chances of finding one if I
> took 5-gallons of material and used a hand lens and microscope to go
> through everything.  I was told there wasn't much of a chance you'd find
> one and that the diamonds found there are usually at least eye visible.  I
> have no idea if this is true, but my guess is that micro diamonds do exist
> there but are extremely hard to detect from the other material at that
> size.  There is a lot of sand sized quartz and other material there, so it
> could be a nightmare trying to sort it all out to find a small diamond.
>
> Andrew Turner
> Salt Lake City, UT
>
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> Why don't you lamp it, Kreigh?
> Many diamonds fluoresce in UV.
>
> Aloha
> Axel
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> I still have around 20 pounds of pre-sorted gravel to go through from our
> stop down there last year.  Maybe...maybe...a teensy tiny diamond is
> waiting for me!
>
> GcB
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> diamond of 2019 in Arkansas’ Crater of Diamonds State Park
>
> A Nebraska teacher had a gem of a time at Arkansas’ Crater of Diamonds
> State Park, where he found a 2.12-carat brown diamond, according to a press
> release issued by the park on Monday.
>
> The diamond is the largest found in the park in 2019.
>
>
> https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-diamonds-state-park-20190730-mhsp3mlfbvbxnbcpjrjotzd2ou-story.html
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> https://www.arkansasstateparks.com/news/visitor-finds-212-carat-brown-diamond-arkansas-state-park?fbclid=IwAR0Ls-VFUvtdlER8J_pKXevRBy82x0JhU8Se7-ea8Y0CrNDTuarKkv7-a2k
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