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56 diamonds certified at Crater in November By Waymon Cox
Greetings from Crater of Diamonds State Park! November was a good month for diamond finds at the Crater. Park staff registered 56 diamonds, bringing the year’s total to 559 finds! Interestingly, only one of these was found by surface searching, a 13 pt. yellow registered on the 18th. Of all November diamonds, 38 were white in color, with brown and yellow tied at nine apiece. Arkansans registered 31 diamonds during the month, and visitors from Alabama, California, Colorado, Louisiana, Michigan, North Carolina, and Texas registered 25 diamonds. Diamonds certified during the month weighed anywhere from two points to the 3.65-carat Kings Mountain Pinnacle, the second-largest found so far this year! Five diamonds weighed more than one carat each (four brown diamonds and one yellow gem). White diamonds weighed an average of only 13 points per stone, while yellow diamonds weighed around one-third of a carat, and the average brown diamond weighed 1.11 carats! December is here, and there are still plenty of diamonds to be found before year’s end. Though temperatures have cooled, the allure of a holiday diamond-hunting adventure is a great reason to bundle up and head to the Crater of Diamonds this season!
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Search area last plowed: October 15, 2010
Most recent significant rain: November 30, 2010 Diamond finds for November 28 - December 4, 2010 (100 points = one carat): November 28 - Kenny & Melissa Oliver, Rosston, AR, 3 pt. white December 2 - Megan Leger, Lake Charles, LA, 1 pt. white |
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