EIGHT-YEAR-OLD TWINS FIND 2.5 CARAT DIAMOND
Moshe says: Why don’t i have this kind of luck.
Who thought playing in the park would yield such a find. Eight-year-old twins Grace and Garrett Duncan were not sure what they had until a park interpreter, Rachel Engebrecht, confirmed what she thought she had spotted from the digging the twins had done that day.
The eight-year-old Houston natives were enjoying a spring break vacation visiting their maternal grandparents in Arkansas and decided to spend part of the day “digging for diamonds”. Engebrecht explained, “The family didn’t realize they had a diamond. They thought it was a piece of mica. When they learned it was a diamond, there were many ‘woo hoo’s’ and high-fives exchanged between the six family members.” The twins plan to take their 2.5-carat diamond back to Texas and show it off to their third grade classes and then it will go into a lock box for safe keeping.
The Crater of Diamonds State Park often has visitors who find diamonds but does not place a value on the diamonds that the visitors are allowed to take out of the park to keep. Since the park opened in 1972, there have been roughly 25,000 diamonds found. The largest stone ever found, a 16.37-carat white diamond named the Amarillo Starlight, by Texas visitor W.W. Johnson in 1975.