[Rockhounds] Finders Keepers: Woman finds 4 carat yellow diamond in state park

[linda at middleearthminerals.com]

People are allowed to keep what they find at the well-known Crater of Diamonds State Park, which was even alluded to on the Arkansas state quarter.  Over 75,000 natural diamonds have been found there making it extremely unlikely that the uncut stone fell out of someone's jewelry.

Linda

-----Original Message-----
From: Rockhounds <rockhounds-bounces at rockhounds.drizzle.com> On Behalf Of Dora Smith
Sent: Sunday, October 3, 2021 6:59 PM
To: rockhounds at rockhounds.drizzle.com
Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] Finders Keepers: Woman finds 4 carat yellow diamond in state park

If it fell out of someone else's jewelry it belongs to them, and she'd better return it, or face legal and possibly criminal consequences, as well as becoming deservedly unpopular. If anyone who knows her liked her already.

If it came originally from the ground, then I can't imagine how the term 'finders keepers' applies unless the state claimed it belonged to them as owning the land it came from, kind of like neighbor kids picking berries on our land when I was a kid.  But nothing like that is stated here.  And since the subject line should have been explained in the post if one exists, I'm not going to the article to see if there is more.

Yours,

Dora Smith

On 10/3/21 2:47 PM, Kreigh Tomaszewski wrote:
> A California woman discovered a 4.38 carat yellow diamond 
> <https://www.arkansasstateparks.com/articles/visitor-finds-438-carat-d
> iamond-crater-diamonds-state-park>in
> Arkansas’ Crater of Diamonds State Park in September, the state parks 
> department said.
>
> Noreen Wredberg, of Granite Bay, California, was visiting Arkansas’ 
> Hot Springs National Park with her husband, Michael, when she decided 
> to stop by Crater of Diamonds.
>
> “I first saw the park featured on a TV show several years ago,” 
> Wredberg told the parks department. “When I realized we weren’t too 
> far away, I knew we had to come!”
>
> https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/finders-keepers-woman-finds-4-car
> at-yellow-diamond-national-park-n1280650
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