A seven-year-old girl got the perfect gift when she ended up discovering a 2.95-carat golden brown diamond in a crater park in the US.
The budding gemologist Aspen Brown was celebrating her seventh birthday at the Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro, Arkansas, when she picked up the pea-sized gem, according to a news release from the park.
The diamond “is the second-largest registered by a park guest this year, topped only by a 3.29-carat brown diamond discovered in March,” the release added.
“Brown was visiting the park with her dad and grandmother to celebrate her birthday,” the release read. “Brown picked up a gem about the size of a green pea from a pathway along the northeast side of the search area.”
Park officials later confirmed that Brown had indeed discovered a diamond and that she got to keep it.
“Aspen’s diamond has a golden-brown color and a sparkling luster. It is a complete crystal, with no broken facets and a small crevice on one side, created when the diamond was formed,” Waymon Cox, assistant park superintendent, stated in the release. “It’s certainly one of the most beautiful diamonds I’ve seen in recent years.”
The 37-acre park -- open to visitors searching for treasures -- is the eroded surface of a volcanic crater. Apart from diamonds, other precious gems like amethysts and garnets are also found there as a result of the site’s unique geology.
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