Tania Marshall, President-elect - Geological Society of SAĭiamonds are valued in dollars per carat and a carat is 200 milligrams, whereas quartz is valued in rands per ton.

They'll buy them at the price of quartz and that will fairly soon put a prick in the bubble. the diamond buyers are not going to buy it at a diamond price.

Tania Marshall, President-elect - Geological Society of SA It's like looking for water lilies in a desert! Yes, there's an outside possibility that they might exist but the likelihood is not very great. Looking at the location and the geological formations of the area, she would certainly hesitate to state that diamonds would ever have occurred there says Marshall. There's also a video of a geode and diamonds do not form as a geode. There are crystals which have hexagonal crystal shapes, whereas diamonds are very definitely octagonal. from the crystal shapes they are certainly not what you would expect of diamonds. TXNEWtjAW9- Department of Mineral Resources and Energy ‏ June 15, 2021ĭoes any of the geology of the area suggest that the discovery of diamonds is likely?īruce Whitfield gets expert input from Tania Marshall, President-elect of the Geological Society of South Africa (GSSA).įrom what we've been able to see on the Internet, like the photographs posted on Twitter. Close look at the ‘diamonds’ people are mining at #kwaHlathi. They were accompanied by representatives of the Council for Geoscience and the South African Diamond & Precious Metals Regulator (SADPMR).Įarlier the provincial government had promised to bring calm to the area and make sure the correct information about the stones reaches the community. Officials from the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy and the provincial KZN government arrived to inspect the site on Tuesday. RELATED: PHOTOS Diamonds or quartz? Geologist weighs on 'diamond rush' in KZN Thousands of people have reportedly descended on the KwaHlati area near Ladysmith since last week after rumours that precious gems had been discovered there.

The 'diamond rush' happening in KwaZulu-Natal has been making news both locally and internationally. As people flock to 'diamond' site to get rich, Bruce Whitfield interviews Tania Marshall from the Geological Society of SA.

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