This story centers on a rare mineral encased in a diamond, a substance that could never survive on the planet's surface without its protective casing. In the 1980s, miners in Botswana's Orapa mine ...

The way they date diamonds is typically looking at inclusions of other minerals in the diamond that can be radioactively dated. The diamonds themselves can't be dated. But if the mineral ...

I’m squinting at a diamond in the palm of my hand ... “I hope that we will discover a new mineral,” he says. Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox! We'll also keep you up ...

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