De Beers

Companies like the Diamond Foundry can manufacture a high-quality diamond in about two weeks.  It takes the Earth about a billion years to do it the traditional way.
Business
Diamond labs say theirs are forever too — even if they were made yesterday
A doorway half-buried by sand in Kolmanskop, Namibia
Arts, Culture & Media
How the sands of time have almost swallowed a German ghost town in the Namibian desert