A New York Woman Dug for 3 Weeks to Find Her Own Engagement Ring Diamond

Woman digs for weeks in park to track down diamond for her engagement ring

Her discovery was the third-largest diamond to be found at the park this year

A New York woman dug for 3 weeks to find her own engagement ring diamond

What would you do to find your perfect engagement ring?For Micherre Fox, a 31-year-old strategy consultant from New York City, it meant camping out for three weeks at Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro, Ark., with a shovel and a mission: to dig up her own diamond.Fox said she began dreaming of finding her own ethically sourced gem about two years ago.“We’re not getting engaged until I do that,” she recalled telling her boyfriend Trevo…

Woman Finds 2.3-Carat Diamond at Arkansas' Crater of Diamonds State Park – Geology In

The third largest diamond of 2025, a 2.3-carat stone, was discovered by a New York woman at Arkansas’s Crater of Diamonds State Park.Micherre Fox, 31, of Manhattan, New York, achieved a dream years in the making at Crater of Diamonds State Park, the world’s only public diamond-bearing site. After a month-long search, she unearthed a 2.30-carat white diamond—the third-largest find of the year—which she named the Fox-Ballou Diamond. Micherre Fox, …