Diamond Rings: Dig For Diamonds For A Few Dollars
It’s like something out of a Gold Rush movie – but it’s in the here and now. In Arkansas, USA, there’s a State Park called the Crater of Diamonds and all you need to do is pay $7 as an entrance fee and you are given a shovel to try your luck at finding diamonds. The park gets a large number of visitors and the last year, there were more than a thousand diamonds found!
There are some people who come three or four times a year in the hope of finding a diamond. The question is, are the diamonds real or are they created in a laboratory? Considering that that there was someone who found a stone that was 3.9 carats, one wonders just how authentic these stones are. However, it was later found that the person who found the diamond could just have been doing a swindle and the diamond seems to have been imported and falsely passed off as an Arkansas diamond. Others however, have had great finds which have proved to be authentic.
However, way back in 1906, a farmer discovered a dazzling stone on his property and from then on, the legend of diamonds in Arkansas which was then one of the poorer states in the US, grew. There was a rush of diamond prospectors that followed and though some found a few small stones, many packed up and went back to where they came from. The Crater of Diamonds State Park is situated on the land of the farmer who discovered that first diamond. There have been geological studies done in the area and the results are controversial. While some believe that diamond mining there could yield rich dividends, others feel that it could just be a pipe dream.