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Recent rainfall has turned up the largest diamond find so far this year at the Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro. A visitor from Kentucky last week found a 1.52 shiny brown diamond at the 37-acre search field. Park interpreter Waymon Cox says many diamonds are found on the surface after large rains.
Last year’s largest diamond find measured 2.5 carats.
In total, over 75,000 diamonds have been unearthed at the Crater of Diamonds since the first diamonds were found here in 1906 by John Huddleston, a farmer who owned the land long before it became an Arkansas State Park in 1972.
The largest diamond ever discovered in the United States was unearthed here in 1924 during an early mining operation. Named the Uncle Sam, this white diamond with a pink cast weighed 40.23 carats.
Crater of Diamonds State Park is located on Arkansas Highway 301 in Murfreesboro. It is one of 52 state parks administered by the State Parks Division of the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism.
