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re: Arkansas to honor diamond mines with special helmet for Spring Day

Posted on 3/27/14 at 10:01 pm to
Posted by oR33Do
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Posted on 3/27/14 at 10:01 pm to
Last time I went was well over 10 years ago and the list was nowhere near that long.

All I found was a lot of quartz and fools gold.
Posted by TigersOfGeauxld
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Posted on 3/27/14 at 10:08 pm to
I bet most people don't know this:

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Another park find, the "Strawn-Wagner diamond", has been certified as the world's only perfect diamond by the American Gem Society. It was unearthed in 1990.


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The Strawn-Wagner Diamond is the world's only perfect diamond so far found, weighing 3.09 carat (620 mg). It was found in 1990 by Shirley Strawn of Murfreesboro, Arkansas, in the Crater of Diamonds State Park public search field.

It was cut to 1.09 carats (220 mg) in 1997, and graded a "perfect" 0/0/0 by the American Gem Society in 1998 and graded perfect by the Gemological Institute of America, making it the first diamond ever to receive such an AGS grading. The diamond is considered one-in-a-billion, according to Peter Yantzer, the AGS Laboratory Director.

The diamond is currently on exhibit at the Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro, Arkansas.




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