Teenager finds 7.44 carat diamond in Arkansas state park

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     (AP) – A teenager has found a 7.44 carat diamond at a state
park in southwestern Arkansas.
     Officials at Crater of Diamonds State Park at Murfreesboro say the rock found
Saturday by 14-year-old Kalel Langford is the seventh largest found since the
park was established in 1972. The park hasn't provided an estimate of the
diamond's value.
     The teen said in a statement Thursday that he spotted the diamond among rocks
near a stream. He has named it "Superman's Diamond" and plans to keep it as a
souvenir.
     Park interpreter Waymon Cox describes the diamond as pinto-bean sized and
similar in color to coffee.
     The largest diamond ever discovered in the United States, the 40.23 carat
"Uncle Sam," was unearthed on the land in 1924.

   

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