Square-cut or pear-shaped, diamonds are also a chimp’s best friend

Marilyn Monroe sang that “diamonds are a girl’s best friend”, but a new study suggests that a love of crystals is a universal ...
Good News Network

Chimps’ Love for Crystals Could Help Us Understand Our Own Ancestors’ Fascination with These Stones

The researchers were hoping to understand whether our own species' long documented appreciation (bordering on obsession) with crystals ...
Hindustan Times

South African 'diamond rush' unearths only quartz crystals, officials say

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 ...
News24

Ladysmith stones are quartz crystals and not diamonds, experts find

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 ...
The Straits Times

South African 'diamond rush' unearths only quartz crystals

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 ...