Woman finds record-busting diamond
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A California woman made a surprise find after discovering a 4.38 carat yellow diamond in Arkansas’ Hot Springs National Park.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Noreen Wredberg was visiting the park with her husband Michael and decided to explore the Crater of Diamonds park, the state Parks Department told </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">NBC News</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I first saw the park featured on a TV show several years ago,” Ms Wredberg </span><a rel="noopener" href="https://travel.nine.com.au/latest/american-airlines-removes-mother-toddler-refusing-wear-mask-onboard/0e144844-75b3-40a3-8ad7-92e3416c425d" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400;">told</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the department.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“When I realised we weren’t too far away, I knew we had to come.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The couple arrived at the park after several days of rain which had left the slightly-dry soil in an ideal condition for finding diamonds.</span></p>
<p><img style="width: 500px; height: 333.33333333333337px;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7844590/244189895_10161140297647646_1540172523317654032_n.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/48ee06d0d5d84df4b199faf2b84bde25" /></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Image: The State Parks of Arkansas</span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ms Wredberg had been searching for about an hour before she noticed the large gem.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I didn’t know it was a diamond then, but it was clean and shiny, so I picked it up!” she said, according to </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">NBC News</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If visitors find diamonds at the park, they can take it to the park’s Diamond Discovery Centre to confirm whether the diamond is real.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Arkansas is the only state with a public diamond mine, with more than 75,000 unearthed at the Crater of Diamonds since 1906.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Arkansas parks department said the diamond Ms Wredberg found is the biggest in the last year.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ms Wredberg has been allowed to keep the stone, but said she was unsure about what she would do with it.</span></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Image: The State Parks of Arkansas / Facebook</span></em></p>
