Like a story straight out of fairy tales with a "happy ending" and almost unbelievable, it seems to have happened to a 7-year-old girl in Arkansas. On her birthday while playing in the city park, the minor found a three-carat diamond.
The stunning 2.95-carat golden-brown diamond was discovered in nearby Diamonds State Park, one of the only publicly accessible diamond sites in the world where 7-year-old Aspen Brown was to celebrate her birthday there.
"At one point she got nervous and went to sit on some rocks near the park," Aspen's father, Luther Brown, said in a statement. "Then she ran to me, saying 'Daddy! Dad! I found one"!
Luther Brown added: “It was no special skill for the girl to find it. She was just in the right place at the right time." The family named the diamond after the family name: "The Aspen Diamond".
Park superintendent Waymon Cox said in a statement that this diamond, the second largest found by a park visitor, was brown to golden in color and had a fantastic luster.
"It's a full diamond, no breaks or cracks," Cox added. "It is definitely one of the most beautiful diamonds I have seen in recent years."
The pea-sized diamond is not the first largest diamond found in a park. Another 40.23-carat pink-colored white diamond was discovered in 1924, decades before the Arkansas park was established.
Source: Travel+Leisure
