Large Diamond From the USA

(via Australian Gemmologist, Vol.23, No.1, Jan – Mar, 2007)

The Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro, Arkansas, has yielded its second large diamond in as many months. A tourist named Bob Wehle, from Ripon, Wisconsin, found a 5.47 carat canary yellow diamond in the park on October 14, 2006.

In September, Donald and Brenda Roden, of Point, Texas, found a 6.35 carat diamond at the Park, which is the only park in the world where tourists can look for and keep any diamonds they find.

Park officials said they are not in the business of estimating the value of diamonds visitors find, but a 4.21 carat flawless canary yellow diamond found in March was estimated to be worth US$15000—US$60000 by a New York diamond dealer. The park is the site of the largest diamond ever found in the United States—a 40.23 carat stone (lower LHS) dug in 1924 and dubbed the Uncle Sam diamond after it was faceted into a 12.42 carat emerald cut diamond (lower RHS).

Notable diamonds recovered from Arkansas Crater of Diamonds include:

1. Uncle Sam:
Date found: 1924
Uncut weight: 40.23 carats
Cut weight: 12.42 carats
Color: white

2. Amarillo Starlight
Date found: 1975
Uncut weight: 16.37 carats
Cut weight: 7.54 carats
Color: white

3. Star of Arkansas
Date found: 1956
Uncut weight: 15.33 carats
Cut weight: 8.27 carats
Color: white

4. Star of Shreveport
Date found: 1981
Uncut weight: 8.82 carats
Cut weight: uncut
Color: white

5. Lamle diamond
Date found: 1978
Uncut weight: 8.61 carats
Cut weight: -
Color: brown

6. Connell diamond
Date found: 1986
Uncut weight: 7.95 carats
Cut weight: -
Color: white

7. Stevens/Dickenson diamond
Date found: 1998
Uncut weight: 7.28 carats
Cut weight: uncut
Color: yellow

8. Cooper diamond
Date found: 1997
Uncut weight: 6.72 carats
Cut weight: uncut
Color: brown

9. Gary Moore diamond
Date found: 1960
Uncut weight: 6.43 carats
Cut weight: uncut
Color: canary

10. Lee diamond
Date found: 1988
Uncut weight: 6.30 carats
Cut weight: -
Color: white

11. Newman diamond
Date found: 1981
Uncut weight: 6.25 carats
Cut weight: -
Color: white

12. Fedzora diamond
Date found: 1991
Uncut weight: 6.23 carats
Cut weight: -
Color: white

13. Stockton diamond
Date found: 1981
Uncut weight: 6.20 carats
Cut weight: -
Color: white

14. Schall diamond
Date found: 1981
Uncut weight: 6.07 carats
Cut weight: -
Color: white

15. Cooper diamond
Date found: 1997
Uncut weight: 6.00 carats
Cut weight: -
Color: brown

16. Kahn Canary
Date found: 1977
Uncut weight: 4.25 carats
Cut weight: uncut
Color: canary

17. Strawn – Wagner diamond
Date found: 1990
Uncut weight: 3.03 carats
Cut weight: 1.09 carats
Color: white

This list of notable diamond from Crater of Diamonds includes all diamonds weighing six carats or more, and the much publicized ‘Strawn – Wagner Diamond’.

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