It’s thrilling when hard work pays off. For years, 26-year-old Christian Liden, of Poulsbo, Wash., has wanted to find the raw materials to make his own engagement ring. He started by panning for gold around his home state. After five years, he had accumulated enough for the ring. Liden recently embarked on a mining excursion that led him across the country to Arkansas’s Crater of Diamonds State Park to collect gemstones for his creation.
Liden and a longtime friend left Washington on May 1. They built their own mining equipment to search with and tested it at a Montana sapphire mine along the way. The friends arrived at Arkansas’s diamond site late on Friday, May 7. “We spent about an hour in the field that afternoon and returned early the next morning to mine all day,” Liden said.
Man building engagement ring finds 2.2 carat diamond at Arkansas state park
Christian Liden is traveling around America mining for materials to make an engagement ring and he found a 2.2 carat diamond at the Crater of Diamonds State Park. Author: THV11 Digital Updated: 5:06 PM CDT May 25, 2021
A Washington state man who has been traveling around the country to make an engagement ring found a 2.2 carat diamond at Crater of Diamonds State Park in early May.
Christian Liden of Poulsbo, Washington came to Arkansas as part of his journey that started five years ago to create an engagement ring for his future wife, but the idea began back when he was in the eighth grade.
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