Thirteen Year-Old Finds 2.93-Carat Diamond Along Path

Walking along a path taken by thousands of others at the Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas, Nicole Ruhter noticed something � a tea-colored, 2.93-carat diamond.

The 13-year-old said she would name her find the "Pathfinder Diamond". Her parents, grandparents, brother and two sisters had already spent the day digging in two other fields before heading down the path just before her.

"We were walking through the path and I just walked and saw this little shine", she said. "We wrapped it up in a little dollar bill and took it back and showed them".

"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".

So far this year, visitors to the park have found 332 diamonds. Experts appraised a 4-carat diamond found previously in the park between $15,000 to $60,000.

Although Ruhter's diamond did have chips and several imperfections so it could be worth much less.

The park is the world's only diamond-producing site open to the public and visitors are allowed to keep the gems they find. The largest diamond found at the state park was 16.37-carat.

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