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Crater of Diamonds State Park is known for the 37.5-acre (15.2 ha) plowed field on which visitors can hunt for diamonds and other semi-precious gems. On average, two diamonds are found per day by park visitors. [3] A visitor center contains information about the geology of the park, a gift shop, and a cafe.
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. The diamond was named "Uncle Sam" after the nickname of its finder, Wesley Oley Basham, a worker ...
The Excelsior Diamond is a gem-quality diamond, and was the largest known diamond in the world from the time of its discovery in 1893 until 1905, when the Cullinan Diamond was found. It was found on June 30, 1893, at the Jagersfontein Mine in South Africa , 130 kilometres (81 miles) south east of Kimberley whose fame as a diamond mining center ...
The Carine Diamond is the eighth-largest diamond found in the Crater of Diamonds since it became a state park in 1972, according to the news release. On average, park visitors find one or two ...
The weight would make it the largest diamond found in 119 years and the second-largest ever dug out of a mine after the Cullinan Diamond that was discovered in South Africa in 1905. The famous ...
The diamond, which has yet to be named, is the second-largest to be discovered since the 3,106-carat Cullinan Diamond was found 119 years ago in South Africa in 1905, CNN reported.
Found above ground in Lençóis: 1895: Eventually sold to I. K. Gulland of London, where it was broken up into small pieces as industrial diamond drills. [7] 3106.75: Cullinan Diamond South Africa: Premier Mine: 1905: British Crown (I and II) and Charles III (III–IX) The largest gem-quality diamond ever discovered. 2492 [8] Motswedi Botswana ...
A 2,492-carat diamond was unearthed at Botswana's famed Karowe mine this week by Canada's Lucara Diamond, one of the largest stones ever.. Lucara Diamond, in a news release Wednesday, said the ...