A grove of Pandanus candelabrum, which appears to grow only in diamond-bearing kimberlite soils. Diamonds are formed hundreds of kilometers below the surface, as carbon is squeezed under intense temperatures and pressures.
Diamond is only formed at high pressures. It is found in kimberlite, an ultrabasic volcanic rock formed very deep in the Earth's crust. The extreme pressures needed to form diamonds are only reached at depths greater than 150km.
The Kimberley region, in northern Western Australia, has been a prolific source of diamonds since the 1980s. Western Australia is particularly famous for its production of coloured diamonds and has become the primary source of pink diamonds for the world's markets.
Most visitors like to dig in the soil and screen for diamonds. This usually involves searching through the first six inches to one foot of soil.
On the other hand, raw diamonds are uncut and unpolished. In other words, they have not been altered or tampered with after they were discovered. Raw diamonds look like transparent stones with yellowish or brownish tints. There are some that are colorless but these are rare.
Black Diamond Coal Mine (Black Diamond A; Black Diamond B), Collie Shire, Western Australia, Australia.
Argyle diamonds are an extremely rare type of diamond. They are so rare that they have a market value of over $100,000 per carat. Argyle diamonds are the most expensive type of diamond found in nature. In 1868, they were discovered in the Argyle mine in Kimberley, Australia, and have been mined there ever since.
It is said that for every 25 million carats of diamonds extracted from the Argyle mine, a single blue diamond is found. Only 42 Argyle blue violet diamonds have been included in over 30 years of Argyle pink diamond tenders.
Diamond sources have traditionally been found by panning rivers and looking for diamonds or indicator materials from pipes like garnets, pyrite or chromium dioxide and then going through the laborious process of following the trail backwards to its source.
Diamond has the highest odds of spawning at Y=-64.
You don't want to go all the way to the bottom, however, because you'll constantly be interrupted by bedrock. We recommend digging one level above the lowest bedrock.
Throughout its existence, Earth has been hit by meteorites and when there is a large meteorite impact, extreme temperatures and pressures are produced, which are the perfect environment for the formation of diamonds.
As a matter of fact, the only hardness test that can identify a diamond is scratching corundum. Corundum (which includes rubies and sapphires) is a 9 on Moh's Hardness Scale and can only be scratched by a diamond. If your suspected diamond scratches corundum, there is a good chance it is a real diamond.
At the Crater, diamonds are often found loose in the soil, having been released during the rapid weathering of this unstable mantle rock. The original host rocks, described from Africa and other sites around the world, including those of the Crater of Diamonds were first described as kimberlite and peridotite.
Diamonds have a metallic luster like new steel or lead. They will not be clear like glass. They do not have a solid dull look like the jasper. Diamonds are translucent.
Western Australian-based Lucapa Diamond Company has unearthed a gigantic 170-carat pink diamond from the Lulo mine in Angola. The type IIa rough has been dubbed the Lulo Rose and is believed to be the largest pink diamond discovered in the past three centuries.
Diamonds in Australia were recorded in the Bathurst area, New South Wales in 1851. Significant quantities also were mined from alluvial deposits at Copeton and Bingara, near Inverell in north-eastern New South Wales, from 1867 to 1922 and minor production resumed at Copeton in 1997, but has since stopped.
Aussie miner finds $102 million pink diamond - largest found in 300 years.
In the west Kimberly region, Western Australia, Ellendale mine produces an incredible 50% of the world's fancy yellow diamonds, and since the 1980s this region in WA has been a huge source of diamonds.
Australia (especially Western Australia) is the one of the world's top producers of gold. About 60% of Australia's gold resources occur in Western Australia, with the remainder in all other States and the Northern Territory.
Kimberlite pipes are the main sources of diamonds around Australia and the world. These volcanic pipes contain diamonds that are millions of years old, formed deep within the Earth's mantle. Many of these kimberlite pipes have been found in the Kimberly region in the north of Western Australia.
Usually, Diamond is found under layer 12, but now if you get to these -Y levels, the odds of finding diamond significantly increase: -50, -64, -59, and -58. It's important to mention that bedrock now appears at Y level -60.
Best method for mining Diamonds in Minecraft
Diamond Ore can only be mined with an Iron Pickaxe or better. As of 1.18, Diamonds are far less common in open spaces like caves, which means to maximise your chances of finding Diamonds in Minecraft you should strip-mine in straight lines in all directions.