From spider web to treasure: She found a tooth-sized diamond worth $27,000
Why spend thousands on a wedding ring when you could discover your own diamond and create your own?
A woman from New York decided to travel to Arkansas in search of a diamond she could use for her engagement ring. Why Arkansas, you ask? There lies the Crater of Diamonds State Park, where the general public is allowed to search for diamonds in their natural volcanic form, and can keep whatever they find.
The park is about 37 acres and gets about 140,00 visitors every year. And while it’s normal for about 1-2 diamonds to be found in a day, what 31-year-old Micherre Fox found went far beyond the norm.
Take me there immediately ☺️🤍💎Discover Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro, Arkansas—the only place in the U.S. where you can hunt for real diamonds in their volcanic source and keep your finds! Explore a 37-acre field to uncover diamonds, amethyst, garnet, and more.… pic.twitter.com/UU32FDHsdH
— JUDY (@judy08281241) August 15, 2025
Diamond in the rough? $27,000. Digging up your own engagement ring? Priceless.
Fox spent three weeks searching for the perfect stone, hoping to find a gem for her engagement ring. On her final day, she mistook what looked like a dew-covered spiderweb for debris, kicked it, and discovered it wasn’t a spiderweb at all.
The shine, which went nowhere upon her kicking it, is what clued her in. She picked up what she’d kicked and as she’d never held a diamond in her hand like that before, she wasn’t sure that’s what she was looking at.
As it turns out, not only did Fox find a diamond - she discovered a 2.3-carat white diamond valued at about $27,000 and about the size of a human tooth. Overcome with emotion, Fox cried and laughed.
American woman Michelle Fox has found the perfect diamond for her wedding.
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) August 12, 2025
She discovered a 2.3-carat diamond in Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas after searching for an engagement ring stone for more than two years.
Michelle’s partner even agreed to delay his proposal… pic.twitter.com/maF9Ilt17H
“Hold on to being optimistic and bold, even though it’s naive,” Fox told ABC News. “I got really lucky, and I worked hard."
Micherre Fox lives in Manhattan, but the rock on her engagement ring didn't come from the Diamond District. After three weeks of searching Arkansas' Crater of Diamonds State Park, she discovered a 2.3-carat white diamond. @DavidMuir shares her story. https://t.co/eMxKqU0gu6 pic.twitter.com/ZOUpxnRS7W
— World News Tonight (@ABCWorldNews) August 13, 2025
Fox officially registered the gem, which she named the “Fox-Ballou Diamond” after her and her partner’s last names. She plans to use the stone in her engagement ring. The park has yielded more than 75,000 diamonds since 1906, with 366 registered so far in 2025.
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