She‘s a local rock star.
Bidding a temporary farewell to the Big Apple boded well for future bride Micherre Fox, 31, who stumbled upon a 2.30-carat white diamond — worth around $27,000 — during a three-week hunt at the Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas.
It’s a finger-licking find that’s saving her fiancé a handful of dough.
“Having never seen an actual diamond in my hands, I didn’t know for sure, but it was the most diamond-y diamond I had seen,” the Manhattan-based millennial raved in a statement. “I got on my knees and cried, then started laughing.”
Fox, a recent graduate school grad, decided to celebrate her academic achievements with an excavating adventure through the park’s diamond-search area, a 37.5-acre landmark, where over 75,000 stellar stones have been unearthed since the early 1900s.
A staggering 366 diamonds have been registered at Crater of Diamonds in 2025 alone, including 11 weighing more than one carat each.
Fox did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for a comment.
But now, she’s laughing on easy street.
With the national average cost of an engagement ring totaling $5,500, per a recent study, Fox and her groom-to-be, who fully supported her decision to dig for her own diamond, are coming up roses ahead of their big day.
Owing to the high price of weddings, which can cost couples across the country more than $26,000 — and the lovebirds near NYC over $58,000 — every penny counts.
Rather than blowing their budget on a ritzy rock, Fox was more than eager to take engagement matters into her own hands — quite literally.
“I was willing to go anywhere in the world to make that happen,” she said. “I researched, and it turned out that the only place in the world to do it was right in our backyard, in Arkansas!”
Well, it’s not so much “our backyard” as it is 1,200 miles away from New York — but hey, who’s counting?
“There’s something symbolic about being able to solve problems with money, but sometimes money runs out in a marriage,” added Fox. “You need to be willing and able to solve those problems with hard work.”
And work, she did.
The brunette kicked off her weeks-long search on July 8, spending hours combing through the grounds at Crater of Diamonds for bling. Daily, she’d hit the trail, desperately looking high and low for that glitzy glow, but would routinely come up empty-handed.
Fox’s luck, however, changed at 11 a.m. on July 29, her final day at the park, when she noticed something shiny by her feet. The nearly-wed initially assumed it was an iridescent, dew-covered spiderweb.
But after giving it a slight nudge and noticing its gleam, Fox realized she’d scored treasure.
Experts at the park’s Diamond Discovery Center confirmed that Fox had found a white, or colorless, diamond weighing more than two carats. It’s approximately the size of a human canine tooth.
The gem — which she’s named the Fox-Ballou Diamond — in honor of her and her fiancé, reportedly boasts a smooth, rounded shape and beautiful metallic luster, typical of most Crater diamonds.
It is the third-largest diamond found at the park, thus far, this year.
Park officials are happy for the soon-to-be married gal.
“Ms. Fox’s story highlights the fact that, even when putting forth your best effort, being in the right place at the right time plays a part in finding diamonds,” said Waymon Cox, Crater of Diamonds State Park Assistant Superintendent, in a statement.
“After weeks of hard work, Ms. Fox found her diamond sitting right on top of the ground.”
A satisfies Fox is grateful that her search was successful — and that it’s now over.
“After all the research, there’s luck and there’s hard work,” said the belle, who plans to have the rock set in her engagement ring. “When you are literally picking up the dirt in your hands, no amount of research can do that for you; no amount of education can take you all the way.”
“It was daunting!”
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