Noreen Wredberg and her husband weren't really expecting to find anything at Arkansas' Crater of Diamonds State Park, she said, and she wasn't sure what she had found when she picked up a stone. Turns out, it was a yellow diamond weighing 4.38 carats.
"I didn't know it was a diamond then, but it was clean and shiny, so I picked it up," Wredberg said, according to a news release from the park.
"When I first saw this diamond under the microscope, I thought, 'Wow, what a beautiful shape and color,'" Howell said in the release. This year, 258 diamonds have been registered at the park, about one or two a day, weighing in all more than 46 carats.Wredberg's diamond is the largest found since then, the park said.
It had rained in the days before the couple visited. Then the sun was out on the day they were there, September 23.
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