Arkansas is known for something very unique. The ONLY public access diamond mine in the entire world. For a small fee, anyone can go to the Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro Arkansas and search for diamonds in the giant open dirt field.

Oct 25, 2019· It is the largest brown gem found at the park in more than two years, since a teenager from Centerton, Arkansas discovered a brown diamond in March 2017.

Sep 29, 2018· Diamond Mining at Crater Of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas Duration: 9:42. The Crystal Collector 258,372 views

Uncle Sam (diamond) Uncle Sam is the nickname for the largest diamond ever discovered in the United States. It was found in 1924 in Murfreesboro, Arkansas at the Prairie Creek pipe mine, which later became known as the Crater of Diamonds State Park.

Apr 08, 2011· The largest diamond ever found in the park or, for that matter, in the entire country was a whopping carats. It was named " The Uncle Sam " after the commercial miner who dug it up in ...

Jul 29, 2019· John Lanik found a diamond weighing just over two carats when he visited Arkansas's Crater of Diamonds, state park officials said in a press release. The 36yearold searched for about two hours before he found the brandycolored gem near the southwest edge of .

Apr 04, 2019· carat chocolate diamond found at Arkansas state park. A visitor at Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro, Arkansas, found the largest diamond of the year so far. The large chocolate diamond weighed in at carats, KLRTTV reported.

Oct 28, 2013· PUBLISHED October 28, 2013. As teenager Tana Clymer discovered this month, watching where you step can really pay off—especially on a certain patch of volcanic soil in southwest Arkansas. .

Arkansas is divided into a highland area in the northwest and a lowland region in the south and east. The rocks in the highland area are dominated by welllithified sandstones, shales, limestones, and dolostones of Paleozoic age. A thin drape of younger unconsolidated clays, sands, and gravel, termed alluvium,...

Diamond found by Michael Dettlaff in Arkansas' Crater of Diamonds may be worth thousands of dollars.

Jul 30, 2019· A 36yearold school teacher made a sparkling discovery when he found a diamond that weighed more than 2 carats at an Arkansas State Park. Josh Lanik, from Nebraska, was on a family vacation when he visited Crater of Diamonds State Park on July 24 and left with the "brandycolored gem" worth thousands of dollars, the park said on Monday.

The largest diamond found by a park visitor in the Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas since 1972, when it was established as a state park. It was found by W. W. Johnson of Amarillo, Texas in 1975 and was a carats ( g) white diamond, but it has since .

Jul 01, 2015· The largest diamond found since the site became a state park was a white diamond found in 1975. How Can I Find Diamonds? To search for diamonds as well as other semiprecious stones in the park, you first need to plan your trip. The park is located about 120 miles from Little Rock, Arkansas.

MURFREESBORO, Ark.. (WMC) A diamond was discovered at Arkansas State Park. Miranda Hollingshead, 27, of Texas discovered the diamond during her first trip to the park. Hollingshead said she was in town visiting siblings and they wanted to do something fun, so they visited the park.

Aug 12, 2013· Diamond found by Michael Dettlaff in Arkansas' Crater of Diamonds may be worth thousands of dollars.

Jul 30, 2019· Nebraska Teacher Finds Diamond in Arkansas State Park While on Family Vacation. Josh Lanik is one lucky guy. While vacationing with his family, Lanik, a 36yearold teacher from Hebron, Nebraska, came upon a shiny discovery at Crater .

Oct 25, 2019· Choate's gem is the thirdlargest diamond found in 2019, so far. It is the largest brown gem found at the park in more than two years, since a teenager from Centerton, Arkansas discovered a ...

Quartz Crystals. The ancient Ouachita Mountain area of Arkansas was considered a mystical location by Native American tribes. The hot springs in the "Valley of the Vapors," now the city of Hot Springs, was considered a place of peace for even warring Native American tribes.

Jul 29, 2019· Teacher finds 2carat diamond in Arkansas – and there might be more, officials say. A Nebraska teacher found a diamond in Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas after looking in a nearly 38acre search area. Experts say many more could be found with recent rainy weather.

Jul 30, 2019· A Nebraska man found a diamond in the rough that weighed just over 2 carats on a recent family vacation to a famous gemfilled state park in Arkansas. Josh Lanik spent nearly two hours searching Crater of Diamonds State Park on July 24 and walked away with the largest diamond of 2019, according .

2carat diamond found in Arkansas park. (CNN) — When fields get plowed, diamonds don't usually pop up. That's unless you're visiting Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro, Arkansas. That's where Dean Filppula, an offshore steward from Shreveport, Louisiana, found a .

Sep 27, 2018· Sept. 27 (UPI) A Colorado woman visiting Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas found a diamond in just 10 minutes of searching. The 71yearold woman, who did not want her identity revealed, said she and her family were only looking for diamonds for about 10 minutes at the park when she found the ice white diamond on the surface.

Jul 30, 2019· July 30 (UPI) — A Nebraska man visiting Arkansas' Crater of Diamonds State Park found a brown diamond, the largest found at the park so far this year. Josh Lanik, 36, a schoolteacher from Hebron, told Arkansas Stat told Arkansas State Parks officials he was visiting the park with his family July 24 when he spotted something shiny on the surface of the ground.

Aug 20, 2019· MURFREESBORO, Ark. (KFTA) — A woman from Texas found a yellow diamond at Arkansas State Park on Friday. "I was just going to pick up a transmission that day, but my siblings were in town and wanted to do something fun together," Miranda Hollingshead says.

Crater of Diamonds State Park. This diamond mine is located near Murfreesboro, Arkansas. For a fee of a few dollars you can enter the mine, search all day and keep any diamonds that you find. In addition to diamonds, you might find one of the many colorful gemstones that occur naturally there.