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Oklahoma Family Find 2.79- Carat Gem at Crater of Diamonds In Arkansas
'Steel Man of India' Holds 575.4-Pound Pillars For One Minute
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By Ben Hooper
Sept. 25 (UPI) -- An Oklahoma family celebrat- ing a birthday at Arkansas' Crater of Diamonds State Park discovered a brown diamond weighing in at 2.79 carats.
Raynae Madison said she and her family traveled to the park from Cookson, Okla., for her nephew's birthday and brought along a beach digging kit and sand sifting tools they bought from a dollar store.
The family went sifting near Prospector Trailhead, on the north side of the park, and after going through a few buckets worth of sand, spotted a shiny, oblong object.
"At first I thought it looked really neat, but I wasn't sure what it was," Madison said in an Arkansas State Parks news release. "I hon- estly thought it was too big
to be a diamond."
They took the stone to the park's Diamond Discovery Center, where experts con- firmed it was a 2.79-carat brown diamond.
"Brown diamonds from the Crater occur due to a process called plastic deformation, which creates structural defects during a diamond's formation or movement in magma," Emma O'Neal, an inter- preter at the park, said in the news release. "These defects reflect red and green light, combining to make the diamond appear brown."
Madison dubbed her gem the William Diamond, in honor of her birthday-cele- brating nephew.
The park said the William Diamond is the third-largest gem found at the park so far this year.
By Ben Hooper
Sept. 24 (UPI) -- A body- builder known as the "Steel Man of India" added anoth- er Guinness World Records title to his name: the heavi- est weight holding Hercules Pillars.
Vispy Kharadi, who has broken Guinness World Records 17 times in the past, had to hold the pillars, which each weighed 575.4
pounds, for a full minute, and he exceeded that time by 7 seconds.
He attempted the feat at the Attari border in Punjab, India.
Kharadi wrote on Instagram that the record was "dedicated to the Forces of India who pro- tects us."
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