Woman went to public diamond mine to find her engagement ring diamond—after 3 weeks, she made incredible discovery
Every woman has an idea of what she’d want her engagement ring to look like. With unique preferences and styles, it makes the symbolic band even more priceless. A 31-year-old woman named Micherre Fox also had her own specifications when it came to her ring, per NPR. However, she wasn’t dwelling on details like others; she wanted to dig up her own diamond. She visited the Crater of Diamonds State Park in Pike County, Arkansas, in hopes of fetching her own rock for the ring. She was determined to make the perfect find and three weeks later, stumbled upon something stunning.
Fox was invested in the idea of getting her own diamond. She didn't want it to be just a shiny rock but also to represent promise, support, hard work and many other qualities that were dear to her. She had done her research and knew that the possibility of digging one up was only a flight away. She headed to the mine and camped there, using her shovel to the best of her ability. "We're not getting engaged until I do that. They come from the ground. What is stopping us from just getting one ourselves?" she recalled telling her boyfriend, Trevor Ballou.
Right from 8 in the morning until 4 pm, the woman rigorously dug up the mine, looking intently for a rock that she could call her own. However, this plan didn’t come easy. It had struggles and exhausting challenges. "There were days when I wouldn't shower for several days. By the time I got out, I was so tired and hurt… I couldn't muster the energy to spend 10 minutes undressing and taking a shower,” she recalled. By the end of her camping, she was ready to head back, a little disappointed to find nothing. She took one last walk into the field, with bleak hopes and found something surprising glimmering in the grass.
"I thought it was dew. I pawed at it with my hiking boot and it didn't move. It turned out to be a 2.3-carat diamond—the third largest discovered at the park that year,” she exclaimed. Finally, she had found the rock of her dreams. To her, the value of the diamond is far more than just money. The journey to finding it had taught her important lessons that she plans to hold onto along with the ring. "If you take giving up off the table, the only thing left is to keep moving,” she said. Flaunting the stone on camera in an interview with ABC News, the woman was shining with joy, eagerly looking forward to the plans with the ring.
Sarah Reap from the Arkansas State Park was also present the moment the woman discovered what she had been yearning for. According to her, Fox deserves every bit of the find. “She came out here, put in a lot of hard work for several weeks to search for her own diamond and she was able to take it home with her,” she remarked. Passing on the things she has learned, the woman shared, “Hold on to being optimistic and bold even though it's naive. I got really lucky and I worked hard.”