Retired Diamond minister digs up unusual 4.89-carat grayish-white ‘Ghost Diamond’

Retired pastor from Diamond finds unusual diamond

MURFREESBORO, Ark. — A retired minister from Diamond, Mo., may have been destined to find a diamond at the Crater of Diamonds State Park. But Mack Evans said the 4.89-carat rock he discovered recently didn’t even look like a diamond, and he almost threw it away.

The grayish-white diamond, which is the size of a jellybean, is called a “Ghost Diamond.”

Park interpreter Margi Jenks said most diamonds form as a single crystal, but occasionally an aggregate like the one Evans found will pop up.

Information from: Texarkana Gazette, www.texarkanagazette.com