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Check out this cool story about a diamond found in Crater of Diamonds State Park!

When a large diamond is found at Arkansas’s diamond site, the Crater of Diamonds State Park, park staff will always hear the question, “What is it worth?” The park staff is trained to identify rough diamonds, but not to appraise a rough diamond’s worth.

A diamond’s appraisal, either in the stone’s rough form, or later after it has been cut and polished, must be done elsewhere. The beautiful white, 2.44-carat Silver Moon diamond found last year on March 20, the Sunday of the weekend of the full moon supermoon event, by Melissa and Kenny Oliver of Rosston, Arkansas, was recently cut to a 1.06-carat pear-shaped diamond appraised at $21,639.

Bill Underwood of Underwood’s Fine Jewelers in Fayetteville, Arkansas’s first certified gemologist, has been chosen by many Crater diamond owners over the years to serve as their agent when they decided to have their diamonds cut. He assisted the Oliver’s with their diamond. According to Underwood, the cut Silver Moon diamond is close to a perfect diamond, according to the Gemological Institute of America’s grading report. Its color is an “F,” which is two steps down from the top grade of “D”. The cut is a pear brilliant, which is close to the best cut of a round brilliant. Its clarity grade, which measures the number, type, and size of any flaws, is a VVS2, only one level down from VVS1, the highest grade a diamond can achieve.

Isn’t that amazing?! I would love to find a diamond like that! Wouldn’t y’all?