Diamond Fact: A Diamond 1.23-carat ‘Tooth’

Some would say that it is no sweat to be able to find a piece of treasure in a public property which is littered with diamonds.


If you haven't heard about the Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro, Ark., it is the only public diamond mine in the world. At least two diamonds are found each day at that park, according to park officials.


It's already 2 decades when Jeff Starr who happened to be a science teacher at Griffin Middle School had brought his students to the park but it seems nobody is lucky enough to find one.

Not until this year when one of Mr. Starr student a sixth-grade student named Maggie Rasgado while taking a break beside her shovel saw something which looked like a tooth (she even thought that to herself).

The diamond was actually 1.23 carat yellow-white diamond.

And being the first student to find one in the history Maggie thought that it's pretty neat to actually find one...