Teen sells diamond present 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 did not really expect to find one on her behalf family’s visit there last October. After two hours of digging, Tana Clymer involved to stop when she saw what she at first thought would be a candy wrapper.

Turns out, it was a 3.85-carat canary diamond, that your park employee informed her at that time could be worth between $15,000 to $60,000. Diamonds is one of the size and shape of the jellybean.

She told KWTV at the time that they could possibly sell diamonds to cover college if she decided not to transform it into jewelry.

“I think it is 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 they believes God told her to decelerate and have a look, that is when she realized it had been diamond jewelry.

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