The Crater is home to many other rocks and minerals, including jasper, sandstone, conglomerate, agate, quartz, amethyst, calcite, barite, mica, and (of course) diamonds, but the most prominent ...

In total, over 75,000 diamonds have been unearthed at the Crater of Diamonds since the first diamonds were discovered in 1906 ...

Put your pick axes away, the “diamonds” discovered in South Africa are nothing but quartz crystals. After a cattle-herder in the KwaZulu-Natal province claimed to have discovered diamonds, thousands ...

More than 4,000 naturally occurring minerals—inorganic solids that have a characteristic chemical composition and specific crystal structure—have been found on Earth. They are formed of simple ...