Woman Found a 3.69 Carat White Diamond

Susie Clark, a woman from Evening Shade, Arkansas, came to Diamond Pit State Park for the first time with her German mother and grandmother 33 years ago. Last week, she and her husband came back to this state park that was once a diamond mining site. On April 23, Clark found a beautiful 3.69-carat white diamond in the diamond pit. The site was located on the 37.5-acre collection field in the park, near the southern flush shed.

Clark recalled that before finding the diamond that afternoon, she asked God, "Will you bless me to find a diamond today?" Not long after praying, Clad saw a raised peak in a plowed field. A diamond emerging from the soil. She knew that it was a diamond, because the diamond was found on the last day of the trip, after she said her prayers. Hence, she decided to name the diamond "The Hallelujah Diamond".

The park’s interpreter Waymon Cox described the big diamond as frosted white with a pearlescent shine. This is the largest diamond found so far this year. The last time a large diamond was found was on April 16, 2014, when a large 6.19 carat diamond was found in the park, named "Infinite Diamond". The diamond picked up by Ms. Clark is the 122nd diamond found in the park this year.

Cox said there was plenty of rain in the park in the past few weeks, plus the park maintenance staff had ploughed a collection field earlier this week. These effects are the reasons why diamonds are exposed to the soil. Because diamonds are heavier, and there is no static electricity attached to the soil, the rain can easily wash off the soil, and these little things sparkle when the sun comes out. The rule of the collection site is that the person who finds the diamond can own the diamond, and the park provides free appraisal and registration services.

Since the landlord John Huddleston first found diamonds here in 1906, this diamond collecting field in Arkansas has discovered more than 75,000 diamonds. In 1972, the land became a state park.

In addition to diamonds, more than 40 kinds of rocks and minerals have been unearthed in the diamond pit, including amethyst, garnet, olivine, jasper, agate, calcite, barite, quartz, etc.