--- title: Colorado Woman Finds 8.52 Carat Diamond in State Park description: A Colorado woman found a 8.52 carat diamond at Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas. canonical: https://time.com/3938915/colorado-woman-finds-diamond/ author: Alexandra Sifferlin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-27T12:30:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:22.441Z og:title: Colorado Woman Finds 8.52 Carat Diamond in State Park og:description: She's calling it the "Esperanza Diamond" og:url: https://time.com/3938915/colorado-woman-finds-diamond/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8315dbadfe68a6d4/698858c15f570f0322b1c387/8-52-caratdiamondandarkansasquarter.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 8.52-carat diamond Arkansas quarter og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Colorado Woman Finds 8.52 Carat Diamond in State Park twitter:description: She's calling it the "Esperanza Diamond" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8315dbadfe68a6d4/698858c15f570f0322b1c387/8-52-caratdiamondandarkansasquarter.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Colorado Woman Finds 8.52 Carat Diamond in State Park ## Video: Dowsing for Nuggets in a New Gold Rush [Watch (HLS stream): Dowsing for Nuggets in a New Gold Rush](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/wD5A1VUQ.m3u8) (4:28)  _Published 2010-05-07. As gold prices rise, prospectors dig again in California's old Gold Rush territory. They pan and sift, using dowsing rods and hi-tech gear to find gold nuggets_ by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Jun 27, 2015 12:30 PM UTC  ???????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????The State Parks of Arkansas by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Jun 27, 2015 12:30 PM UTC A very lucky Colorado woman found an 8.52 carat diamond this week at Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas. Bobbie Oskarson of Longmont, Colo. discovered the diamond after only 20 minutes of searching. According to the park, it’s the fifth largest diamond discovered by a visitor since the state park was established in 1972. The diamond is about three-quarters of an inch long and is as wide as a No. 2 pencil. Oskarson is calling her find the Esperanza Diamond, which is her niece’s name as well “hope” in Spanish. She found the diamond in an area of the park called the Pig Pen, because it’s one of the muddiest spots. She currently plans to keep it. “Ms. Oskarson’s eight-and-a-half-carat diamond is absolutely stunning, sparkling with a metallic shine, and appears to be an unbroken, capsule-shaped crystal. It features smooth, curved facets, a characteristic shared by all unbroken diamonds from the Crater of Diamonds,” said Park Interpreter Waymon Cox [in a statement](http://www.arkansasstateparks.com/news/display.aspx?id=2498). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3938915/colorado-woman-finds-diamond/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3938915/colorado-woman-finds-diamond/"},"headline":"Colorado Woman Finds 8.52 Carat Diamond in State Park","datePublished":"2015-06-27T12:30:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:48:22.441Z","description":"She's calling it the \"Esperanza Diamond\"","url":"https://time.com/3938915/colorado-woman-finds-diamond/","keywords":["Newsfeed","U.S.","Arkansas","People","Diamond"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8315dbadfe68a6d4/698858c15f570f0322b1c387/8-52-caratdiamondandarkansasquarter.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alexandra Sifferlin","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8315dbadfe68a6d4/698858c15f570f0322b1c387/8-52-caratdiamondandarkansasquarter.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"8.52-carat diamond Arkansas quarter","caption":"8.52-carat diamond Arkansas quarter","creditText":"The State Parks of Arkansas","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3938915/colorado-woman-finds-diamond/","name":"Colorado Woman Finds 8.52 Carat Diamond in State Park"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Dowsing for Nuggets in a New Gold Rush","description":"As gold prices rise, prospectors dig again in California's old Gold Rush territory. 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