Quote:A vast field of Asteroid diamonds in Russia was unveiled to the world earlier this week. The field, which was discovered back in the 1970s, contains “trillions of carats” of diamonds. Russia decided to declassify its immense diamond field earlier this week. The soviets initially decided to keep the discovery a secret because the USSR already had a successful diamond operation at Mirny.
This week, however, Russia allowed scientists at the Novosibirsk Institute of Geology and Mineralogy to talk about the diamond field that sits below the Popigai Astroblem, a 35-million-year-old asteroid crater in Siberia.
The CS Monitor reports that the diamond field is so big that it could “overturn” the global gem market.
http://www.inquisitr.com/334927/russia-r...-diamonds/
