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A woman intended to bring together her own engagement ring by spending several weeks at a Arkansas State Park and looking for a diamond, which she eventually found on her last day there.
Micherre Fox, 31, stumbled on a 2.3-carat white diamond at Crater of Diamonds State Park in Pike County last month, three weeks after a search for a perfect stone for her future engagement ring, according to a release from Arkansas State Parks (ASP).
Fox’s partner, who has supported their search, agreed to wait to pop the question until she revealed her own diamond, which she decided to start searching for about two years ago, Per Asp. After two weeks of intensive preparation, she officially went on July 8 to start her hunt while she was on a month -long break after completing the research school.
“I was willing to go anywhere in the world to make it happen,” Fox said. “I was researching, and it turned out that the only place in the world that did it was right in our garden, in Arkansas!”
“There is something symbolic about being able to solve money problems, but sometimes money takes out in a marriage,” she added. “You must be willing and be able to solve these problems with hard work.”
Crater of Diamonds State Park
While he was at Crater of Diamonds for three weeks, the park guest spent most days looking for shiny-efters as the park is one of the “only diamond-producing places in the world where the public can search for diamonds in its original volcanic source”, per its Website. According to the park, the policy is “Finders, Keepers.”
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So on July 29, when Fox found something at her feet as she walked along the 37.5 acre of the large diamond search area West Drain, she knew it was her to keep.
She ended up pushing it with her luggage, and while she originally thought it might have been a spiderweb, the shine remained. Fox, who called it the most “diamond-y diamond” she had ever seen, brought it to the park’s diamond discovery center and confirmed that it was a white diamond as large as a human dog tooth. The 2.3 carat stone marks the third largest in the park this year, per aspen.
“I got to my knees and cried and started laughing,” Fox said, noting that she named the stone after her and her partner’s last name: Fox-Ballou diamond.
Crater of Diamonds State Park
“After all research there is luck and there is hard work,” she said. “When you literally pick up dirt in your hands no research can do it for you; no education can take you all the way. It was scary.”
More than 366 diamonds have been registered at Crater of Diamonds State Park 2025 so far, with 11 weighing more than 1 carat, per aspen.