Kevin Kinard found a 9.07 carat diamond while visiting Crater DiF Diamonds State Park in Arkansas.
Kinard, from Maumel, Arkansas, is going to park after a second-class field trip – even if he always returns empty-handed.
He is now 33 years old. And it has found the second largest diamond in the history of the park.
Kinard was in the park with friends on Labor Day.
Then the bank branch manager came around the marble-sized crystal.
“It kind of looked interesting and shiny,” Kinard said. “I just thought it might be glass.”
After hours of searching, friends stopped by the park’s Diamond Discovery Center to examine their stones.
A few moments later, Kinard was called to the office and given the good news.
“I was honestly bored when they told me. I was in complete shock.”
He decided to find his Kinard Friendship Diamond.
“It weighs 9.07, and I got it on 9/7. I thought it was very unique.”
More than 75,000 diamonds have been found in the park since it was first discovered in 1906.
The park has a “Finders Keepers” policy, which is very generous considering the many large diamonds found there, as regular CNN readers recall.
– Teacher Josh Lanik who was on vacation last year found a 2.12 carat diamond – a great show-and-tell after the school year started.
– Fourteen-year-old Kalel Langford, whose dream of finding a diamond came true in 2017 just 30 minutes later.
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