Availability of diamonds that can be used for the design and manufacture of jewelry

It is believed that the fall of the meteorite in the Siberian region of Russia, which happened millions of years ago, brought trillions of carats of diamonds. Scientists in Russia said that Russia has a huge diamond deposit that has enough technical grade diamonds to meet the demand of the entire world market for the next 3000 years. The diamond deposit was discovered in the early 1970s, and it is located under a crater left by a meteorite that crashed about 35 million years ago.

A meteorite crater, known as the Popigai Crater, was discovered in Russia during the Soviet era. This discovery should transform the diamond industry in the world. Officials from the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences confirmed that the crater located in Eastern Siberia contains trillions of carats of "impact diamonds." These diamonds can be used in high-tech devices, and they have many other technological applications. But they can not be used for the design or manufacture of jewelry. It is reported that the entire Siberian diamond deposit contains more diamonds than all the current known deposits in the world.

Nikolay Pokhilenko, director of the Institute of Geology and Mineralogy. VS Sobolev SB RAS in Novosibirsk, informed news agencies that another molecular form of carbon in diamonds from the Popigai crater was also discovered. He also mentioned that they can have properties and a crystalline form that makes them almost twice as hard as traditional diamonds. This will give them excellent qualities for industrial applications. He said that this discovery could revolutionize many sectors. But he also explained that this will not affect the global diamond market, as it is regulated by the availability of diamonds that can be used for the design and manufacture of jewelry.

Pokhilenko also explained that the unsurpassed hardness of diamonds is probably due to the extremely high temperature and very high pressure that affected the carbon molecules during the explosion when the meteorite fell. He said that his institute, together with the Russian diamond mining company ALROSA, controlled by the state, plans to send a group of geological prospectors to this field. The meteorite left a 60-mile (100-kilometer) crater in Siberia when it fell about 35 million years ago and at the same time gave Russia trillions of carats of diamonds.

 Officials from the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences said that it is still necessary to determine the economic aspects of their expedition. Their scientists met in Novosibirsk to discuss the issue. Work is under way to assess the environmental and economic aspects of mining in this region. Russian officials have not yet reported new research data. It will be interesting to see how the current Russian government will continue to disclose information about the diamond field, as it is known for hiding information from its citizens and is not transparent about politics.

The deposit was discovered by Soviet scientists in the early 1970s. But the Soviet leadership decided not to conduct geological exploration work on the field, but preferred instead to produce synthetic diamonds for use in industry. Until the collapse of the Soviet Union in late 1991, the world was not aware of this deposit. Disclosure of information that the fall of the meteorite gave Russia trillions of carats of diamonds, caused great interest in this discovery.

http://guardianlv.com/2015/03/meteorite-crash-gave-russia-trillions-of-carats-of-diamonds/