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His next big endeavor was finding the stones to put in the ring, and so he and his friend made mining equipment and made a trip to the Crater of Diamonds State Park.
After three days of mining in the park, Christian for a 2.2-carat yellow diamond.
Crater of Diamonds State Park; pictured above is the beautiful diamond Christian found at the park
“I saw it shining as soon as I turned the screen over and immediately knew it was a diamond,” Christian said in a press release.
“I was shaking so bad, I asked my buddy to grab it out of the gravel for me!”
Although this is a pretty big deal diamond to find, Christian isn’t done mining for gemstones. He hopes to find a few opals when he heads to Nevada.
Last Halloween, another man found a 4.49-carat canary diamond in the same park that you can read about here.
