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Crater of Diamonds State Park is situated over an eroded lamproite volcanic pipe. The park is open to the public and, for a small fee, rockhounds and visitors can dig for diamonds and other gemstones. Park visitors find more than 600 diamonds each year of all colors and grades. [5] [6] As of 2015 over 75,000 diamonds had been found in the ...
The company described those diamonds as being so hard that they could only be cut using powder of other Arkansas diamonds. [4] The final result was a 12.42-carat (2.484 g) emerald-cut gem. It was characterized as M on the diamond color scale; this nominally corresponds to a faint yellow color, but the visual impression of Uncle Sam has been ...
AR 51 south to AR 26 west – Murfreesboro, Hollywood, Crater of Diamonds State Park: Western end of AR 51 concurrency: I-30 – Malvern, Little Rock, Hope, Texarkana: Exit 73 on I-30: US 67 north / AR 7 north (North 10th Street) to I-30 east – Malvern, Henderson State University: Western end of US 67/AR 7 concurrency: US 67 south (South 6th ...
Josh Lanik, a 36-year-old teacher from Hebron, Nebraska, discovered a 2.12-carat diamond near the southwest edge of Crater of Diamonds State Park while on a family vacation in July 2019.
The park is one of the only places in the world where the public can search for real diamonds in their original volcanic source. Crater of Diamonds State Park: What you need to know [Video] Skip ...
It also is the 36,500th diamond registered since Crater of Diamonds became a state park in 1972. The diamond is “about the size of a pencil eraser” and is “light brown color resembling iced ...
Highway 301 serves as the northern edge of Crater of Diamonds State Park, the world's only active diamond mind open to the public. South of the park the highway becomes a rural route, passing east through forested lands. AR 301 has a junction with Highway 195 south of Pigsah and Highway 19 at Piney Grove.
More than 75,000 diamonds have been discovered at Crater of Diamonds since the first diamonds were found in the area of Pike County, where the park is located, in the early 1900s, according to the ...