[Ymers] Fwd: Hiking Story of Interest

[Jennifer Eaton]

Hi Everyone,
One of our Ym-ers shared this with me and I thought it was neat enough to
share with you!  Some hike for the serenity, others the challenge, and yet
some a diamond diggers.

If interested, read the article below!  :)  Jen

  Hiking Story of Interest:
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Teen finds 2.93-carat diamond along path   Wed Jun 6, 6:41 PM ET
 MURFREESBORO, Ark. - Walking along a path taken by thousands of others at
the Crater of Diamonds State Park, Nicole Ruhter noticed something everyone
else had missed — a tea-colored, 2.93-carat diamond.

Ruhter, 13, of Butler, Mo., said she would name her find the "Pathfinder
Diamond" after pulling what she described as a broken pyramid from the
ground. Her parents, grandparents, brother and two sisters had already spent
the day digging in two other fields before heading down the path just after
7 p.m. Tuesday.
"We were walking through the path and I just walked and saw this little
shine," said Ruhter, who has just finished the seventh-grade. "We wrapped it
up in a little dollar bill and took it back and showed them."
Ruhter said both park rangers and her vacationing family got excited about
the diamond, found along a service road. So far this year, visitors to the
park have found 332 diamonds, three of them Tuesday alone, said Bill
Henderson, assistant park superintendent.
While the park does not do appraisals, Henderson said experts appraised a
4-carat diamond found previously in the park between $15,000 to $60,000.
Henderson said Ruhter's diamond did have chips and several imperfections.
"It's a nice diamond," he said. "It looked like it had been broken off at
one side."
For now, Ruhter and her family said they'd keep the diamond for a time and
find out how much it is worth before attempting to sell it.
"I was kind of praying to God. I was saying, 'I don't care if it's worth
whatever it's worth, I don't care if it's a tiny little sliver of something,
I just want something,'" Ruhter said. "Ten minutes later, I just found it."
Crater of Diamonds State Park is the world's only diamond-producing site
open to the public and visitors are allowed to keep the gems they find. On
average, two diamonds are found each day at the park.
The largest of the 25,000 diamonds found since the state park was
established in 1972 was the 16.37-carat Amarillo Starlight, a white diamond
found by a visitor from Texas in 1975.

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