Tana Clymer, 14, from Oklahoma found a 3.85-carat canary yellow diamond during a family picnic at the Arkansas Crater of Diamonds State Park on Saturday.
"I thought it was a piece of paper or foil from a candy wrapper. Then, when I touched it, I thought it was a marble." Tana shared in the park's official website.
The girl was so grateful for finding the tear-drop shaped and jellybean sized and yellow-colored diamond that she whispered a thankful prayer and called the precious stone as "the God's Jewel diamond."
Tana heard in the news before of another boy who had found a 5-carat diamond and was excited to see if she would find anything. She had dug around the park for a couple of hours and was about to give up and walk back to her family.
"I think God pointed me to it. I was about to sprint to join my family, and God told me to slow down and look. Then I found the diamond," said the teenager to ABC News.
The Arkansas Crater of Diamonds State Park is an area which used to be a crater of an ancient volcano whose surface has already eroded. It is the only public park open which is full of diamonds.
The finders-keepers policy of the park allows all park visitors to keep what precious stones they find at the site. For Tana, this means that the canary diamond is all hers. The yellow diamond is the 396th diamond so far unearthed from the diamond site for 2013. Since 1906, there have been over 75,000 diamonds found there. Aside from diamonds, other gems found are quartz, amethyst and garnet.
Bill Henderson, the assistant park superintendent, told ABC News, "No two diamonds are alike, and each diamond finder's story is unique, too."
Tana told him about her excitement over finding the canary diamond. Henderson said, "She's either going to keep the diamond for a ring, or if it's worth a lot, she'll want that for college."
