No, diamonds are found near lava. Diamonds being near redstone ore is just a myth
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In order of most common to rarest: Coal, Iron, Lapis Lazuli, Gold, Redstone, Diamond, Emerald.
There are 8 different ores. Coal, Iron, Gold, Redstone, Lapis lazuli, Diamond, Emerald and Nether Quartz. However Emerald and Nether Quartz are currently only on Pc & Pocket Edition.
There are currently 7 ores in vanilla minecraft 1.6. They can all be crafted into their respected blocks by putting nine of the same pure ingot, dye or dust into a crafting table i.e. not the ores. They are: coal, iron, gold, diamond, lapis lazuli, redstone and emerald. Iron and gold ore have to be cooked in a furnace to retrieve their respective ingots. Here is an image of the 7 ores: There is another ore called the nether quartz ore which is used to craft solid quartz in minecraft.
The Superflat generator does not spawn ores. It's intended for building on in Creative mode.
Throw it in the furnace just like iron or other ores.