Findings and Sources:

We learned a lot about diamonds from the reading we did and the tours we went on. We also learned a lot about diamonds from what the rest of our team read and told us at the meetings. The things that we found most interesting are that there are many different colours of diamonds, that diamonds are mined and that there are diamonds in our province.

We were sad to learn that people steal diamonds from each other and that people fight wars over diamonds. We would like the diamond wars to stop. Diamonds took a long time for nature to make and are liked for their beauty and they are important because they are valuable.

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