The Kimberley Diamond Mines known worldwide are located in the town of Kimberley, South Africa. In 1866 Erasmus Jacobs discovered a small stone by the Orange River, it was the first South African diamond!
When diamonds are still not cut or polished they are called rough diamonds and can be found in octhahedra, cubic, macle, and dodecahedron crystal shapes.
An octahedra has got eight faces and is the most common form of a rough diamond. A cube shape is like a simple box. A macle is pyramid shaped. A dodecahedron has a rounded shape with many different types of flat faces on it: a perfect one will have 20 triangular faces, 30 square faces and 12 pentagonal faces!
