14 DAY TRIAL // 12-year-old Michael Dettlaff has recently discovered a 5.16 carats diamond estimated to be worth an impressive $15,000 (€11,291). The boy has named the rock “God's Glory Diamond.”
People in the diamond mining industry work long and hard to find such rocks. This boy, on the other hand, found the diamond while visiting a state park in Arkansas.
The park he was visiting is called the Crater of Diamonds State Park, apparently because diamonds keep popping up at this location. Oddly enough, the people who find them are allowed to keep them.
According to The Inquisitr, the rock was merely lying in the grass when Michael spotted it. The boy picked it up and put it in a bag together with other rocks he had collected.
At that time, he had no idea it was a diamond.
Later on, the boy showed the rocks to a park employee. The latter was the one who realized one of them was a diamond.
“When I brought this rock out of the bag the guy who’s there, he just went bug-eyed and he said, ‘Hang on a second. I need to take this to the back room,’” Michael Dettlaff recollects.
“So then people start coming from everywhere and they’re like, ‘Oh yeah. It’s a big diamond,’” he adds.