Geologists from Westfalische Willhelms University in Munster, Germany, confirmed that they had found tiny diamonds in pieces of crystals from 3.1 billion to 4.3 billion years old. “If the diamonds are the same age as their surrounding material, this would make the oldest gem a billion years older than any other diamond found so far.
What can be aptly called a double treat, was the discovery of diamond fragments within 4.3-billion-year-old zircon crystals recovered from rocks in Western Australia. The largest of these diamond inclusions is as thick as a strand of hair.
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