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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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The pros and cons of quartz countertops

Quartz is a high-end alternative to natural stone for kitchen and bathroom countertops. Here, we explain the good and bad of ...
If you’re feeling dreary — and it’s been a dreary time, hasn’t it? — my advice is to think about crystals. Unfathomably large crystals, if possible. Big news from the crystal beat: A 7-foot-tall, ...