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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. The diamond was named "Uncle Sam" after the nickname of its finder, Wesley Oley Basham, a worker at the Arkansas ...
Diamonds have been discovered in the field continuously since 1906, including the graded-perfect Strawn-Wagner Diamond, found in 1990, and the Uncle Sam, found in 1924, which at over 40 carats is the largest diamond ever found in the United States.
Will and Marshall Barnett with their prize find. A father and son from Arizona just found the second-largest diamond registered at Crater of Diamonds State Park this year. Will and Marshall ...
In 1996 the largest diamond found at the mine was discovered. Named the "Colorado Diamond," it was a 28.3-carat (5.66 g) yellow stone and the fifth-largest diamond found in North America. The gem was cut and polished by legendary New York diamond cutter Bill Goldberg which yielded a 5.39-carat (1.078 g) faceted stone that sold for $87,500. [5] [16]
Discovery date: March 4, 2023. David Anderson, who lives in Murfreesboro, found a 3.29-carat brown diamond while wet-sifting soil in March 2023. The diamond was the largest found at the park since ...
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 16.37 carats (3.27 g) white diamond, but it has since been cut into a 7.54 carats (1,510 mg) marquise shape. —
The Freedom Diamond, the largest faceted diamond to originate in the U.S., was mined from Northern Colorado in 1997. Now, it's in our nation's capital
English: Four American diamonds from the National Gem and Mineral Collection at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History. Catalog numbers include: 171594, an uncut, 6.45-carat Colorado diamond crystal; G11740, the Freedom Diamond; G11741, the Uncle Sam Diamond; and Canary Diamond R2, an uncut, yellow diamond crystal.