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 ...

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 ...

'[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 ...

Hundreds of people descended on the site near Ladysmith last week hoping to strike it rich. A technical team found the stones were actually quartz crystals. "The tests conducted conclusively reveals ...

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 ...

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 ...

JOHANNESBURG, June 20 (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, ...