Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa — As word spread that there were diamonds to be found beneath the soil in a tiny, rural village in South Africa's Kwa-Zulu Natal region, thousands of people descended with ...

Unidentified stones that lured thousands of fortune seekers to a rural South African village to mine the land with picks and shovels were not diamonds as hoped, officials said on Sunday, but quartz ...

A diamond rush that brought thousands of impoverished South Africans to a village with picks and shovels turns out to have been sparked by very common and not very valuable quartz crystals. “The tests ...

Gemstones that sparked a diamond rush in South Africa last week have turned out to be just quartz, preliminary findings show. Thousands from across the country flocked to a hillside in KwaZulu-Natal ...

A day after the Nagaland government ordered an investigation to verify claims of diamonds being found in Wanching village in Nagaland’s Mon district, a team of geologists on Saturday confirmed that ...

Unidentified stones that lured thousands of fortune seekers to a rural South African village to mine the land with picks and shovels were not diamonds as hoped, officials said on Sunday, but quartz ...

'[I]t must be mentioned that the value of quartz crystals is very low compared to that of diamonds,' says an official Unidentified stones that lured thousands of fortune seekers to a rural South ...

JOHANNESBURG (REUTERS) - Unidentified stones that lured thousands of fortune seekers to a rural South African village to mine the land with picks and shovels were not diamonds as hoped, officials said ...