Researchers have discovered a pattern where diamonds explode from deep beneath the Earth’s surface in huge, volcanic “fountains.” Diamonds form approximately 90 miles deep in the Earth’s crust and are ...

Seemingly contradictory materials are trapped together in two glittering diamonds from South Africa, shedding light on how ...

Botswana's Karowe mine just produced a record-breaking 2,492-carat diamond, the largest unearthed in over a century.

The Hope and Koh-i-Noor diamonds—two of the most famous Golconda diamonds—may have come from southern India’s Wajrakarur Kimberlite Field, according to a team of researchers that reviewed the possible ...

Western Australia’s pink diamonds were brought to the surface from deep underground around 1.3 billion years ago when the former supercontinent Nuna broke up. Pink diamonds are extremely rare and ...

A 170-carat pink diamond found in Angola may be the largest such stone to be unearthed in 300 years. “Only one in 10,000 diamonds is colored pink,” Stephen Wetherall, CEO of the Lucapa Diamond Company ...

Visitors to the American Museum of Natural History may be attracted by glitter, but scientists see more in the unusual stone. By David Belcher Few of the visitors who marvel at the Okavango Blue ...

Earth's atmosphere was primed for an 'explosion' in the diversity of life as early as 2.7 billion years ago, a study of ancient diamonds has revealed. The atmospheric composition of volatile gases — ...

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LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — A long-time visitor to Arkansas' Crater of Diamonds State Park recently found a rare brown diamond weighing more than two carats, making it the largest discovery at the park in ...