Greetings from the Crater of Diamonds! Each year, thousands of visitors from all over the world visit Arkansas’s Crater of Diamonds State Park. On Saturday, June 15, the park will host a celebration of those who come in search of diamonds during the 9th Annual Prospectors’ Gemboree!
Festivities will include a day of fun games for the whole family, like our egg toss and diamond digging contest. Visitors can also search for prizes hidden throughout the park’s diamond search area during our annual treasure hunt. From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., guests can meet Crater diamond finders and collectors from around the region and hear the stories “behind the finds” at our 13th Annual Famous Crater Diamonds Exhibition, a rare display of diamonds found in Arkansas!
A complete schedule of event games and activities can be picked up at the park visitor center on June 15. For more information, contact Crater of Diamonds State Park at 870-285-3113, or email [email protected]. We hope you’ll join us as we celebrate diamond miners in Arkansas during Prospectors’ Gemboree!
Search area last plowed: June 3, 2019
Most recent significant rain: June 7, 2019
Diamond finds for the week of May 26, 2019 (100 points = 1 carat):
May 26 – Jovana Resendiz, Mesquite, TX, 44 pt. white; Asa Rose, Hubert, NC, 17 pt. white, 20 pt. white
May 27 – Forest & Brian Page, Joliet, IL, 12 pt. white
May 28 – Ben Newcomber & Nate Paigen, Oregon, IL, 1 pt. yellow; Kristina Westphal, Burnet, TX, 6 pt. white
May 29 – Nathaniel Paigen, Oregon, IL, 2 pt. white; Scot Darling, Duluth, MN, 69 pt. white
May 30 – Scot Darling, Duluth, MN, 8 pt. white; Bobby Jones, Plain Dealing, LA, 6 pt. white; Nathaniel Paigen, Oregon, IL, 9 pt. white
May 31 – Lee Westphal, Burnet, TX, 14 pt. white; Jacob Fritz, Olathe, KS, 39 pt. white, 1.33 ct. white
June 1 – Jason Ivins, Saint Jo, TX, 4 pt. white, 5 pt. white, 6 pt. white, 29 pt. white; Asa Rose, Hubert, NC, 18 pt. white
Waymon Cox
Waymon Cox was a park interpreter at Crater of Diamonds State Park from 2008 until being promoted to assistant superintendent in 2022. Beginning in 2004 he worked as a clerk, seasonal park interpreter, and seasonal guide at Crater of Diamonds State Park and Historic Washington State Park. Waymon enjoys photography, writing, crocheting, and traveling around Arkansas with his family. He has found three of his own diamonds at Crater of Diamonds State Park and helps thousands of park visitors learn how to search for their own diamonds each year.
