Tag: crystals

Macrophotographer Snaps Snowflakes Up Close—And the Results Over Past 14 Winters Are Magical

It’s true: every single snowflake is unique—and nothing shows this better than photographer Alexey Kljatov’s macro snowflake photography. Born in Moscow, 46-year-old Alexey still lives in the city. On a winter night in 2008, when the snow started to fall, he went out onto the balcony of his ninth-floor apartment and stood poised with his…


South African ‘Diamond Rush’ Unearths Only Quartz Crystals, Officials Say

JOHANNESBURG—Unidentified stones that lured thousands of fortune seekers to a rural South African village to mine the land with picks and shovels were not diamonds as hoped, officials said on Sunday, but quartz stones with relatively low, if any, value. People from across South Africa travelled to KwaHlathi in the country’s eastern KwaZulu-Natal province where…