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Probably everyone knows about the value of diamond. However, not everyone knows that its high cost is due not only to the beauty of this mineral (in the form of brilliant diamonds) and not even it unique properties (the strongest material of natural origin on Earth), and the smallest amount on our planet.
Imagine ore with a ton of just 0.2 grams of diamond (this is one carat – a unit of measurement of precious stones), It is considered promising for the extraction of this rare mineral. With this point of view is the find of geologists of Yakutia who discovered a fragment rocks with thirty thousand diamond crystals seem just fantastic. After all, in terms of the same ton of rock, it turns out five hundred thousand carats or one hundred kilograms of diamond.
Russian scientists made an official announcement about this find of the century back in December last year (at the Congress of the Geophysical Union USA, held in San Francisco). But this, as they say, is only mention of such a “diamond miracle.” Now to go out a special article is being prepared on this subject, the publication of which outlined in the journal “Geology and Geophysics”. The article will be published most likely in February of this year.
Note that the rarest find of Russian geologists relates to the richest diamond deposit in Yakutia, to the so-called kimberlite pipe Udachnaya – ALROSA company. Located it field near the Arctic Circle, nearby The processing plant is also located. Kimberlite pipe Udachnaya was discovered back in 1955, and since 1971 production Diamond is produced in an open way. For all the time of this mineral, large finds of diamonds have happened more than once, but the current one is the most significant and unique.
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