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Crater of Diamonds State Park is a 911-acre (369 ha) Arkansas state park in Pike County, Arkansas, in the United States. The park features a 37.5-acre (15.2-hectare) plowed field, one of the few diamond -bearing sites accessible to the public.
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 ...
Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas is a treasure trove of jewels. ... visited Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro on Sept. 1 and left with a 2.95-carat golden brown diamond.
Murfreesboro is a city in and the county seat of Pike County, Arkansas, United States. [3] Its population was 1,641 at the 2010 census . The Crater of Diamonds State Park is located approximately 1 mile southeast of the city.
The diamond was found by John Pollock at the Arkansas Diamond Mine near Murfreesboro, Arkansas. Pollock found the diamond on March 1, 1964. It is the largest diamond ever found by a tourist in the Arkansas area. It was valued at $15,000.00 in 1964. The Star of Murfreesboro was featured in the September, 1966, edition of the Lapidary Journal ...
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 ...
Crater of Diamonds State Park: Arkansas: Murfreesboro: Arkansas: 1906–Present (Open to public for small fee) [1] Commercial mining ventures failed, only diamond mine accessible to the general public. World's only perfect diamond found here. [citation needed]
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