Teen sells diamond found in Arkansas park for $20G

Visitors come to Arkansas’ Crater of Diamonds State Park to dig for gemstones, but a 14-year-old Oklahoma girl didn’t really expect to find one on her family’s visit there last October. After two hours of digging, Tana Clymer was about to give up when she saw what she at first thought was a candy wrapper.

Turns out, it was a 3.85-carat canary diamond, which a park employee told her at the time could be worth anywhere from $15,000 to $60,000. The diamond is about the size and shape of a jellybean.

She told KWTV at the time that she would probably sell the diamond to pay for college if she decided not to turn it into jewelry.

“I thought it was a piece of paper or foil from a candy wrapper,” she said of the discovery. “Then, when I touched it, I thought it was a marble.” She adds that she believes God told her to slow down and take a look, which is when she realized it was a diamond.

Since the park opened in 1906, 75,000 diamonds have been discovered there, along with other gems like amethyst, garnet, peridot, jasper, agate, calcite, barite, and quartz.

Agencies/Canadajournal