Russian miners at the Alrosa’s Udachnaya diamond mine pulled out a strange red and green stone out of the ground; they knew by instinct that they have something extraordinary. The red and green stone looked different from the thousands of tons of earth and ore they process each day. The workers had just unearthed a 30 mm rock which contained 30,000 diamonds. It was a rock which had diamonds in a concentration which was 1m times higher than normal.
In spite of the rarity of the discovery, the company donated the rock to the Russian Academy of Sciences, as the diamonds are so small that they cannot be used as gems. The rock was found in Russia’s Udachnaya diamond mine.
The diamonds were tiny and did not have any commercial value but they were of immense importance academically.
Larry Taylor, a geologist at the University of Tennessee, according to Live Science said, “The exciting thing for me is there are 30,000 itty-bitty, perfect octahedrons, and not one big diamond. It’s like they formed instantaneously. The associations of minerals will tell us something about the genesis of this rock, which is a strange one indeed.”
According to scientists the diamonds are born in the space between Earth’s crust and the core or the mantle. Big pieces of diamond bearing mantle are pushed to the surface by violent volcanic eruptions. Most of the mantle rock is destroyed during this fiery ascent but leaves crystals glimmering on the surface. The rock from Udachnaya somehow survived the speedy ride.
Taylor in close association with scientists at the Russian Academy of Sciences has been studying the Udachnaya diamonds. The scientists used industrial x-ray tomography scanner much akin to the medical CAT scanner to study the structure of the Diamond. The scientists also used electron beams to identify the chemicals trapped in the spaces between the lattices. The findings revealed that the diamonds were created by liquids from the subducted oceanic crust, made of a thick rock called peridotite.
The results of the study will be published in a special issue of Russian Geology and Geophysics in January 2015.
jak says
How many years and how many millions of dollars of taxpayer research money will it take for a so-called “academic” do discover that sometime in history a larger diamond was crushed, and naturally became imbeddd in this rock? Answer: As long as possible and as expensive as possible.
Scott Pearson says
My theory, these diamonds were formed by nuclear testing!
elioflight says
Such a Negative Nancy. All the technology you enjoy daily comes from scientific research: A much better place to spend money than on wars over oil and the concerns of the corporate elite, tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, etc., At least something comes from that expenditure.
Fighting_Republitard_Dumbness says
I am detecting jealousy here. It’s a shame that you have this attitude. It sounds like you prefer a world without curiosity. If things were run your way we’d still be using horse for transport, there would be no drugs such as penicillin, no man on the moon etc. etc. By the way your theory sucks. And the word you are looking for is embedded. Go back to school and graduate maybe?
Adrian Crane says
There’s a lot of truth to what you say, but the alternative to basic research is ignorance.
Robert Stermer-Cox says
Aliens.
Eric Graves says
It’s not like it’s a study to determine why lesbians are fat, or what kind of music makes dogs depressed. This is real science, and is not going to cost the American taxpayer a dime. Reading comprehension is your friend, friend. The rock was found in Russia, and was donated to the Russian Academy of Sciences, which receives no money from the American government.
Ernest Stefan Matyus says
That’s a good guess as any, but where’s your proof.
Science is based on proof among other things.
Ernest Stefan Matyus says
Alien nuclear testing
Fighting_Republitard_Dumbness says
Nuclear testing on aliens.
Agent Day says
Just look for a man named Roger in Langley Falls, Virginia. He can explain this rock and give you more.
jak says
“It sounds like you prefer a world without curiosity”
You have a leftist-fanatic religious view that publicly paid academics provide a good value over real-economy scientists. That view is false.
Thank you for the spelling correction. Your fanatical view that someone, probably working full time, who posts something quick on the Internet and includes a misspelling is un-educated, is quite curious. You have to be an absolute tyrannnical monster to every single flawed person you meet. Ugly.
Academic discovery has ground to a halt. In 10 years we went to the moon. We then used 1960’s technology in the Shuttle untili the early 2000’s. Internet – early 1970’s. Graphical User Interface – 1970’s. Nothing since then.
Leftist academia is the reason for no more real discovery. Why? Like I implied, they sit around and “discuss” things. So your argument is a non-sequitur (did I spell that right?) If we were talking in 1965, you would have an argument.
“The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment,
project allocations, and the power of money is ever present”
-Eisenhower in his final speech in 1960.
Kungfoochimp says
who counted?