Micherre Fox, 31, found the 2.30-carat gem at Crater of Diamonds state park after a month-long hunt
A New York woman has found a 2.30-carat colorless diamond in an Arkansas state park and repurposed it as her engagement ring.
Micherre Fox, 31, of Manhattan, New York, went on a month-long hunt in July to the state’s Crater of Diamonds state park to search for gems and came up lucky on the last day, according to Arkansas state parks.
“Having never seen an actual diamond in my hands, I didn’t know for sure, but it was the most ‘diamond-y diamond’ I had seen,” Fox told the park service.
The service said it was the third largest of 366 diamonds found in the park this year. It describes the Crater of Diamonds – a 37-acre, eroded surface of a volcanic crater near Murfreesboro, as “the only place in the world where the public can search for real diamonds in their original volcanic source.”
