DIAMONDS

Ridiculed crystal work wins Nobel for Israeli

Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman (C) reacts as he arrives at a news conference at Israel's Technion Institute of Technology in the northern city of Haifa
An Israeli scientist who suffered years of ridicule and even lost a research post for claiming to have found an entirely new class of solid material was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry on Wednesday for his discovery of quasicrystals.
A worker at the Botswana Diamond Valuing Company displays a rough diamond

DR Congo diamond firms need $300 mln: official

Democratic Republic of Congo needs to invest some $300 million in its industrial diamond mining operations to revive a flagging sector and boost government revenue, a top mining official said.
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De Beers in New Contract with Botswana

Diamond producer De Beers said on Friday it had signed a new 10-year contract for the sorting, vaulting and sales of the diamond production of Debswana, its joint venture with the government of Botswana.
Diamond Planet

Planet Made of Diamonds Likely to Have Oxygen, Carbon

In what can be called a gem of a discovery, astronomers have found a rare planet made of diamonds, which would likely have oxygen apart from carbon. The carbon-based planet lies 4,000 light years away in the constellation of Serpens in our Milky Way galaxy.
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Diamond Planet Found Orbiting a Pulsar [PHOTOS & VIDEOS]

Listen up ladies (and any gentlemen with a spaceship), astronomers say they have discovered an exotic planet seemingly made of diamonds that's five times the size of Earth and with more mass than Jupiter. And get this, the diamond-crystal planet was discovered in our own Milky Way galaxy.

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