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Grounded In Love: Man Finds 2.2-Carat Diamond For Engagement Ring - Across America, US - Since before he was old enough to shave, Christian Liden dreamed of creating a one-of-a-kind engagement ring from gold and gems he mined. ....
It’s thrilling when hard work pays off. For years, 26-year-old Christian Liden, of Poulsbo, Wash., has wanted to find the raw materials to make his own engagement ring. He started by panning for gold around his home state. After five years, he had accumulated enough for the ring. Liden recently embarked on a mining excursion that led him across the country to Arkansas’s Crater of Diamonds State Park to collect gemstones for his creation.
Liden and a longtime friend left Washington on May 1. They built their own mining equipment to search with and tested it at a Montana sapphire mine along the way. The friends arrived at Arkansas’s diamond site late on Friday, May 7. “We spent about an hour in the field that afternoon and returned early the next morning to mine all day,” Liden said. ....
On the Labour Day weekend, Kinard and some friends went back to the park and he picked up anything that looked shiny or interesting. By the end of the day, he had a bag full of rocks, but nothing that looked like a diamond. In fact, he was not even going to get them checked. However, one of his friends thought they might have found something, so Kinard decided to go to the ranger’s station and submit his collection as well. To Kinard’s surprise, not only had he found a diamond, it was the second largest diamond in the history of the park. Kinard went home with a 9.7 carat diamond that was worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. ....
Bobbie Oskarson holds the 8.52-carat diamond she found at Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas in 2015. It was later dubbed the Esperanza Diamond. Matt Jonas/Digital First Media/Boulder Daily Camera via Getty Images If you re short on cash after the past few months, there s a place in the United States where you can mine for minerals. Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro, Arkansas is a 37-acre (15-hectare) park, located around two and a half hours southwest of Little Rock, that allows visitors to search for their own diamonds. And if you find one, you get to keep it! ....
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