Woman saw a ‘spiderweb’ in an Arkansas park, which was really a $27,000 diamond

So, she decided to source the diamond for her engagement ring at the so-called world-famous Crater of Diamonds State Park.

For three weeks, Fox searched tirelessly for her perfect diamond, and as luck would have it, she came across what she thought was a dew-covered spiderweb on her last day at the park.

Fox kicked the “web,” and when its shine remained, she realized it was a stone.

"Having never seen an actual diamond in my hands, I didn’t know for sure, but it was the most ‘diamond-y diamond’ I had seen,” she said.

Staffers at the Diamond Discovery Center confirmed she found a white, or colorless, diamond. It weighed an impressive 2.3 carats, which is about the size of a human canine tooth, according to the news release.

“I got on my knees and cried, then started laughing,” Fox recalled.

Diamond comparison site StoneAlgo said the average price of a 2.3-carat diamond is around $27,000.

Fox named the gem, which is a tradition for stones found at the park, the Fox-Ballou Diamond, after her and her partner’s last names. She plans to have the diamond set in her engagement ring, which her partner agreed to wait to give her until she accomplished her goal.

The news release stated 366 diamonds were registered at the park in 2025. Just 11 of them weighed more than one carat each.

In total, more than 75,000 diamonds have been found at the park since the first diamonds were discovered in 1906.

Amazing story.

I've always wanted to go diamond hunting in Arkansas.

Btw, why are there so many diamonds in Arkansas??

I thought diamonds just looked like gray pebbles before they are cut and polished?

r3, look at what she's holding in her hand at the picture at OP. It's a grey pebble.

[quote] Btw, why are there so many diamonds in Arkansas??

They're not all over Arkansas; they're just in Crater of Diamonds State Park.

It's on an inactive volcanic vent that brought up a lot of diamonds to the surface long ago. Over the centuries most of the other rocks it brought forth have eroded away, leaving behind the harder rocks, which include diamonds.

The spiderweb story sounds fake. She found a diamond in Crater of DIAMONDS State Park. The spiderweb story is just embellishment for a click bait article. Like a story where the Midwest Grandma wins a million dollars in a slot machine on a 50 cent bet---BS, didn't happen.

It’s not so easy to find a diamond there. She had been searching for three weeks. Not the best use of her time in my opinion, but hardly an improbable sudden jackpot. It might have looked like a spiderweb. I assume that wasn’t some random analogy but something she had actually come across before in her searching