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A road trip across the US turned into a dazzling adventure for a French tourist who stumbled upon a huge 7.46-carat diamond at an Arkansas state park earlier this month.k)..
Julien Navas, who hails from Paris, was amazed to find the enormous gem on the ground of Crater of Diamonds State Park, where visitors can search for and keep any diamonds they find in a 37.5-acre area, according to state officials..
Navas, who had some experience in gold panning and fossil hunting, rented a simple kit for diamond hunting and started to sift through the muddy soil, which had been softened by heavy rain a few days before..
One of his finds, a dark brown object that looked like a marble, turned out to be a 7.46-carat diamond the biggest one found at the park since 2020 and the eighth biggest in the parks history since it opened in 1972..
He named the jewel Carine Diamond after his partner and intends to have the stone split into two diamonds one for his fiance and one for his daughter.. Crater of Diamonds State Park has yielded more than 75,000 diamonds since the first ones were discovered by a farmer on the land that later became the state park..
