Park Visitor Finds Diamond

America schoolteacher Josh Lanik expected to relax during his summer vacation in July.

However, he ended up with an incredibly valuable prize, as well.

Lanik and his family were vacationing at the Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas, the United States.

Every summer, rain unearths dozens of diamonds there, and park officials find many of them.

However, the park also has a "finders, keepers" policy.

Any visitor who discovers a diamond is allowed to keep it.

In fact, such discoveries happen on occasion there.

People have found 75,000 diamonds at the park since 1906.

Lanik was one of these lucky people to find a diamond.

A shiny, chocolate-colored stone caught his eye, so he picked it up.

Surprisingly, it turned out to be a 2.2-carat diamond, the biggest one found at the park this year.

 

• unearth  ʌnˈɜːrθ   (땅속에서) 파내다, 발굴하다 (=dig up)

• on occasion  가끔

• catch one's eye  눈길을 끌다[모으다]