State park yields a 6.19-carat gem

Special to the Arkansas Democrat Gazette - 04/16/2014 - David Anderson holding his 6.19-carat white diamond.
Special to the Arkansas Democrat Gazette - 04/16/2014 - David Anderson holding his 6.19-carat white diamond.

A man who made Murfreesboro his home after learning of the Crater of Diamonds State Park when he saw it featured on the Travel Channel’s Best Places to Find Cash and Treasures program found a 6.19-carat white diamond there Tuesday, the park said in a Wednesday news release.

David Anderson first visited the park in 2007 and now hunts regularly for diamonds in the park’s 37½-acre search area.

Anderson named the clear, white, marquise-shape diamond he found Tuesday the Limitless Diamond after the 2014 motto for the charitable organization Speed the Light.

He plans to donate proceeds from the sale of the diamond to Speed the Light, the release said.

Park Interpreter Waymon Cox said in the news release, “The Limitless Diamond is about the size of a jelly bean, and it’s the 15th-largest diamond found at Crater of Diamonds State Park since 1972.

It is also the largest white diamond we have registered in three years since the 8.66-carat Illusion Diamond was discovered in April 2011 by Beth Gilbertson of Salida, Colorado.”

Arkansas, Pages 10 on 04/18/2014

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