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3.9-Carat Diamond Unearthed in Murfreesboro

posted 1:37 pm Tue October 23, 2007 - Murfreesboro

tags: crater of diamonds state park • murfreesboro • white diamond • carats

Channel 7 News - 3.9-Carat Diamond Unearthed in Murfreesboro

A Wisconsin man digging at Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro today found a white diamond that is nearly four carats. Eric Blake of Appleton, Wisconsin, was digging with his fiance when he found the 3.92-carat stone. Blake says the diamond will go into his collection because his betrothed already has a ring and a setting.

Blake found a 1.49-carat stone Monday. The larger one is big enough to fashion into jewelry but Blake hasn't decided whether he will have it placed into a setting.

Blake works as a carpenter and says his grandfather took him to the state park about 15 years ago. Blake says he returns about three times a year and almost always makes a find.

More than 700 diamonds have been found at the park this year.

The Crater of Diamonds park is the world's only diamond-producing site open to the public and visitors can keep the stones they dig up. The largest diamond ever found in the UnitedStates, the 40-carat white diamond named Uncle Sam, was unearthed in 1924 at the Murfreesboro park.

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Latest Comment on 3.9-Carat Diamond Unearthed in Murfreesboro

arbitrarygovernment

11:59 pm on 03/17/08

Actually he "salted" the Arkansas Diamond Park, meaning he planted the diamonds there. He is a scurvy fake con-artist. The Diamonds are not actually from Arkansas, but imported from INDIA. Read the whole story at

http://www.fakeminerals.com/archives/53

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