Kamchatka volcanoes produce diamonds, say in the Ministry of Education – Moskovsky Komsomolets

The frozen lava Tolbachik eruption found diamonds of unknown type

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Domestic researchers have discovered a new species diamonds. Diamonds large size found in the survey lava Tolbachik volcano. The value of the precious mineral sizes 250-700 microns (it is big enough figure for lava rocks). Tolbachik diamonds as they are now called, did not arise in the molten magma. They were formed as a result of shock crystallization under the influence of lightning electrodischarges in volcanic gases, explained in the Ministry of Education RF.Otechestvennye researchers have discovered a new type of diamonds. Diamonds large size found in the survey lava Tolbachik volcano. The value of the precious mineral sizes 250-700 microns (it is big enough figure for lava rocks). Tolbachik diamonds as they are now called, did not arise in the molten magma. They were formed as a result of shock crystallization under the influence of lightning electrodischarges in volcanic gases, explained in the Russian Ministry of Education.

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View of the island and Flat Tolbachik of dead wood (Author: Kamchatka-tc).

«Today from small samples of solidified lava recovered several hundred diamonds – a lot! Such a number of diamonds can only be compared with abnormally high enrichment diamonds lava rocks on the field Dachin in India (77 diamonds in 1 kilogram of sample) and an unusual magmatic rock in Canada (1500 diamonds in 28-kilogram sample) “- say representatives of the Russian Ministry of Education (via RIA Novosti).

New types of diamonds are different from all the scientists studied the composition of the precious brothers trace to the combustion temperature. Russian explorers believed that the study Tolbachinskyi diamonds and other diamond-promotes the search for the unknown places.

Geologists is still cautious and suggest that only a few products can be considered as Lava diamondiferous.

In the array Flat Tolbachik eruption took place in the period from December 2012 to October next year. Experts called it the eruption fissure – lava poured out of cracks on the slopes of the volcano.

To distinguish a diamond from a fake makes “diamond probe” that measures the thermal conductivity. Diamond more thermally conductive than the “fakes”. It helps and spetsflomaster who filled special ink. Felt-tip pen draws a line on the surface of the stone: to “fake” a solid line drives a droplet.

In Russia, the first diamond found in 1829 in the province of Perm 14-year-old fortress. For polukaratny crystal boy won “free.” First deposit a diamond in Siberia near Yeniseisk in 1897 (02.03 carats). Next diamond found in Siberia as three years after the war.

In the middle of the 1950s were discovered rich deposits of indigenous diamonds in Yakutia. In 1954, a geologist Larisa Popugaeva found the first kimberlite pipe outside South Africa. Further discoveries have started commercial production of diamonds in the USSR.