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One great place to identify stories is the Science Fiction and Fantasy StackExchange site. They have a tag specifically for story identification, and they're very good at finding stories, common and obscure alike. I'd suggest you check it out if you'd like to find out exactly what it was.

Thank you, posted it. No luck so far, but someone linked me to another person asking the same question with a better description of the story.

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/168074/does-anyone...

Without giving anything away, you might be interested in Outcasts — a 2011 British television science-fiction drama serial. Unfortunately it was cancelled after one season.

Is this a thing in Ringworld? Been a long while since I read that one but I seem to recall diamond rain in that one.

I don't remember that in Ringworld, but that was the first real sci-fi book I read! Still one of my favorites.

IIRC there is a Heinlein Story about travel to the moon an diamonds found there.