Talk:Nether Ores/@comment-5268335-20120708171557/@comment-86.82.219.85-20120823152600

You can also use the Divining Rod from the Equivalent Exchange mod. It will find diamonds in an easy way, by right-clicking on blocks you can see if there is a diamond close to that spot.

But you are lucky if you only needed to mine 10 blocks for it - I mined more than 1000 blocks to get glowstone, and saw no more than about 30 ores (including coal and redstone).