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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 ...
Lee J. Wagner of the Arkansas Diamond Company Donated in 1926 to the National Museum of Natural History by the heirs of Washington Roebling [7] [8] [9] 1924 Uncle Sam: 40.23 8.046 Wesley Oley Basham: Largest diamond ever discovered in the United States; as of 2022 in the collection of the Smithsonian [10] [6] [7] 1956 Star of Arkansas 15.33 3.066
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 ...
Related: 170-Carat Pink Diamond May Be Largest Gem of its Type Found in 300 Years. Arkansas Man Finds Second-Largest Diamond Ever Found at the Park. Discovery date: Sept. 7, 2020. The diamond ...
It turns out he found a 4.87-carat diamond in the shape of a pyramid — the largest diamond registered there since 2020, officials say. “Mr. Evans’ diamond is spectacular to see.
His diamond became the largest one registered at the park since Labor Day of 2020, when Kevin Kinard of Maumelle, Arkansas, found a 9.07-carat brown diamond there, according to park officials.
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.
In fact, it was just last year that the second-largest diamond ever found in the park was uncovered, weighing in at a whopping 9.07 carats. Show comments Advertisement