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 to eastern South Africa last week have turned out to be just quartz, according to preliminary finding... Already a Barron's subscriber? Sign In ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...