Californian Noreen Wredberg finds 4.38-carat yellow diamond in Arkansas Crater of Diamonds State Park

A visitor to Arkansas’ Crater of Diamonds State Park discovered a 4.38-carat yellow diamond in September, the state’s Department of Parks said. Noreen Wredberg, of Granite Bay, Calif., Visited the park with her husband just days after it was hit by an inch of rain, which sometimes wash away topsoil covering buried treasures. A spokesperson for the park noted that many of the diamond crater’s gems – 75,000 since 1906 – have been found above ground. Wredberg’s diamond was described by the park superintendent who examined it as “the size of a candy, pear-shaped, and lemonade-colored.” Wredberg will be allowed to keep the gem. Arkansas is the only state in the country to have a diamond mine open to the public, according to a parks official.