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On June 24, 2015, Bobbie Oskarson of Longmont, Colorado, found a perfect, capsule-shaped diamond near this location after deciding to visit the Crater of Diamonds from an Arkansas highway map. After about 20 minutes of surface searching, she found the 3/4-inch-long stone in a small mound of dirt. She named it Esperanza, after her niece and the Spanish word for hope. The diamond weighed 8.52 carats rough, and in September 2015 it was cut to 4.60 carats in a triolette shape with 147 facets. Graded D-colorless and internally flawless, then mounted in a platinum pendant, it was appraised at up to $1 million and has been called the most valuable diamond ever found on U.S. soil.
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