Find out why diamonds from the first Canadian mine are an Amazing Treasure of the Canadian Museum of Nature.

Text: Our Amazing Treasures. Photo of a diamond.

Collage of images: photo of a skull of Daspletosaurus torosus CMNFV 8506; illustration of a burying beetle, Nicrophorus sayi; photo of purple saxifrage, Saxifraga oppositifolia.

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Seven Canadian diamonds.

Nature's Canadian diamonds are in several shapes.
Clockwise from the top: bort, macle, four octahedrons, brilliant-cut (centre).

Brilliant-cut diamond held in tweezers.

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