It’s a real beauty

By Margi Jenks

Late Saturday afternoon, David Anderson, one of the Crater of Diamonds State Park “snowbirds” from Grand Rapids, MI, found the one of the most beautiful white diamonds that has been registered at the Crater in the last couple of years.  The diamond is a 1.96 ct. silver cape, which means that it is a white diamond with a silver frosting on the outside that adds to the typical diamond shine.  Anderson has named the diamond, the Silver Bullet, and it is his 50th and largest diamond find to date. 
 
 

 

 

Anderson, who has visited the Crater of Diamonds State Park for the past 4 years, has always come down for extended winter visits to get away from the snowy weather in Michigan.  When he is not at the Crater he works as an automobile parts inspector.  But he has always enjoyed looking for treasure, and after seeing the Travel Channel program he decided to give diamond hunting in Arkansas a try.  Anderson has been searching in the area where the first diamond was found by John Huddleston in 1906.  The area is affectionately called “The Pig Pen”, and is down at the south end of the Crater search area.  He works with his two digging partners, BJ and Glenn Worthington.  Worthington had just found the Brown Rice Diamond, a 2.13 ct. brown, in the same area in the middle of February.  Since December, the three digging partners have registered over 10 carats of diamonds from that area.
 
 

 

 

Waymon Cox, Park Interpreter, says that “this is the second largest diamond registered since the beginning of 2010, and is the 7th largest found in 2009/2010.  Since the first of 2010, a total of sixty-eight diamonds have been turned in and registered.  This diamond is very similar in its looks to the Strawn-Wagner Diamond, a 3.03 carat rough stone found in 1990, and the Dream Angel Diamond, a 2.09 carat rough stone found in 2008.  Both of them have since been cut into beautiful gems.  The Strawn-Wagner is the only North American diamond that has been rated by the American Gemological Society as a D color 0/0/0 flawless.”
 
 

 

 

Search area last plowed:  February 7, 2010, Total diamonds so far in 2010 - 68

 

Diamonds registered March 1st to March 7th (100 pts. = 1 carat):

 

March 2 - Kelley Huffman, Paragould, AR, 9 pt. white; Dan Kinney III, Sault Ste. Marie, MI, 12 pt. white

 

March 3 - Dan Kinney III, Sault Ste. Marie, MI, 20 pt. white; Adrian Kirby, Ashdown, AR, 94 pt. white

 

March 4 - Bruce Fisher, Concord, AR, 31 pt. brown

 

March 6 - David Anderson, Kent City, MI, 6 pt. white, 16 pt. white, 18 pt. white, 49 pt. white, 1.96 ct. white

 

March 7 - Rebecca Keeton, Delight, AR, 9 pt. yellow

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