'The Holy One, blessed be he, did a wondrous thing when He himself concealed [treasures] in the depths of the earth,' intoned the Lubavitch Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.

Shefa Yamim, an Israeli exploration and mining company, announced that it has discovered rare minerals near Israel’s port city of Haifa. The corundum stones contain a variety of rare minerals, including Moissanite and tistarite.