The 31-year-old New Yorker who found a diamond of 2 karat in a volcanic crater will wear it for an engagement ring

Michere Fox from Manhattan spent several weeks at the State Park in July after having decided to eat a diamond, according to a press release from Waymon Cox, deputy director of Crater of Diamonds State Park.

The 31 -year -old woman looked for diamonds for a large part of July in a field of 37 acres which is part of the eroded surface of an old volcanic crater.

It was only on her last day in the park, walking, that she spotted something that shines at her feet. The park staff confirmed that the sparkling gem of the size of the canine’s tooth of a person was a diamond of 2.3 carats.

“I got on his knees and cried, then I started laughing,” Fox said in the press release.

It is the third diamond of more than 350 diamonds found in the park this year. The park is open to the public and adults can engage in gem hunting by paying $ 15 per day. Park staff periodically plow the ground to loosen the soil and facilitate diamond hunting.

Visitors to the park have found and kept more than 35,000 diamonds since the diamond crater became an Arkansas state park in 1972, according to park officials.

The largest diamond never discovered in the United States was determined in 1924 during an early mining operation, park officials said. Known as Uncle Sam, the white diamond with a pink plaster weighed 40.23 carats and was then cut into a 12.42 carat emerald form. This is part of the Smithsonian mineral and gem collection and can be seen at the National Museum of Natural History.