People from across South Africa travelled to KwaHlathi in the country's eastern KwaZulu-Natal province where villagers had been digging since June 12 in search of diamonds. Unidentified stones that ...

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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 ...

The hopes of thousands who rushed to a rural South African village last week in search of diamonds have been crushed, after government officials said Sunday that the stones were only quartz, which ...

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 ...

MEC Ravi Pillay, MEC Peggy Nkonyeni and Mr Mabuza (Council for Geoscience) The MEC for Economic Development in the province, Ravi Pillay, confirmed this afternoon (June 20) from the Council Chambers ...

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 ...

Gemstones that sparked a diamond rush in eastern South Africa last week have turned out to be just quartz, according to preliminary findings. Thousands of villagers had been digging since June 12 ...

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 ...

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 ...