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Wis. Man Finds 3.92-Ct White Diamond

MURFREESBORO, Ark. (AP) ― A Wisconsin man digging at an Arkansas diamond park with his fiancee Tuesday found a 3.92-carat white stone, but the rock will go into his collection because his betrothed already has a ring and a setting.

Eric Blake, 32, of Appleton, Wis., spotted the stone along a trail at the Crater of Diamonds State Park when he set down a 70-pound bucket of mud that he was carrying to a wash basin. "I put the bucket down to switch hands. I looked down and there it was," Blake said.

Blake found a 1.49-carat stone Monday. The larger one is big enough to fashion into jewelry but Blake hadn't decided whether he will have it placed into a setting. "I only found it an hour ago," he said.

Blake, a carpenter, said his grandfather had taken him to the state park about 15 years ago and that he returns two to three times a year. "We usually find something," he said.

His fiancee Susan Gabrielson ― who has "only one carat on her finger" ― her daughter Sayde and Susan's sister Sarah accompanied Blake to the park this week. Susan found a 1.47-carat stone and some smaller gems Monday.

"We're going back out today. We'll take a lunch and then go back into the field," Blake said.

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 United States, the 40-carat white diamond named Uncle Sam, was unearthed in 1924 at the Murfreesboro park.
Wis. Man Finds 3.92-Ct White DiamondThe Associated Press
- Oct 24, 2007
- 18 hours ago
Eric Blake, 32, of Appleton, Wis., spotted the stone along a trail at the Crater of Diamonds State Park when he set down a 70-pound bucket of mud that he ...
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Colony 6th-grader finds diamond on field tripDallas Morning News, USA
- Oct 24, 2007
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Maggie Rasgado of The Colony unearthed a 1.23-carat diamond during a recent visit to Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro, Ark., where people are ...
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Strange NewsWAVY-TV, USA
- Oct 24, 2007
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He usually goes to the Crater of Diamonds park a few times a year. And Blake says he often comes away with something. The park is the world's only ...
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New Mexico man unearths big diamond at Arkansas parkUSA Today
- Oct 16, 2007
- Oct 16, 2007
Bill Trythall, of Albuquerque, discovered a 2.28-carat white diamond at the Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro. Trythall named the diamond for ...
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crater of diamonds state park 49 minutes ago
Eric Blake, 32, of Appleton, Wis., spotted the stone along a trail at the Crater of Diamonds State Park when he set down a 70-pound bucket of mud that he was carrying to a wash basin. "I put the bucket down to switch hands.

Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas 2 hours ago
I wrote once about how panning for gold would be a fun vacation (more fun if you find gold of course) but how about searching for diamonds. It worked for this guy who found a 1.49 carat diamond and then...

Man Finds Diamond in Arkansas Field 1 hour ago
... digging at an Arkansas diamond park with his fiancee on Tuesday. I didn't know such places existed ! We certainly haven't got any here in the UK. Eric Blake, 32, of Appleton, Wis., found the stone at the Crater of Diamonds State Park.

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