(2004) Field Guide To Rocks & Minerals Of Southern Africa: 90. Book&Media Publishing, 156 pp. Diamond grades are measured in carats per tonne (cpt), or carats per hundred tonnes (cpht), where one carat is equivalent to 200 milligrams of diamond, or about 0.007 ounces. In 8th International Kimberlite Conference, Extented Abstracts Vol., FLA0141. Smith, M.N. Journal-Geological Society of India, 69(3), 539. However, some minerals, such as diamonds, can be manufactured by humans. Survey of circumstellar grains in the unique circumstellar carbonaceous chondrite Acfer 094. (2011) Diamonds in Nature: a guide to rough diamonds. Grossman, J. N. & Zipfel, J. Rocks & Min. Book&Media Publishing, 156 pp. Approved, 'Grandfathered' (first described prior to 1959). (1984) Isotopic variations in diamond in relation to cathodoluminescence. Sobolev, N.V. and Shatsky, V.S. Grelick, G.R. First diamonds from placers in Primorie. & Mudrey, M.G. 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(1989) Petrochemistry of eclogites from the Koidu Kimberlite Complex, Sierra Leone. ]), Avachinsky volcano (Avacha volcano; Avachinskaya Sopka), Komsomolsky open-pit mine (Komsomol'skaya pipe), Yubileyny open-pit mine (Yubileinaya pipe; Jubileinaya; Jubilee), Udachnaya open-pit mine (Udachnaya-Vostochnaya pipe; Udachnaya pipe), Internatsionalny mine (Internatsionalnaya Mine; Inter Mine; International mine), Mirny Mine (Mir Mine; Mir Pipe; Myr Pipe), Nyurbinsky open-pit mine (Nyurbinskaya deposit), Upper Muna kimberlite field (Verkhne-Munskoe; Verkhnemunsky), Kainsaz meteorite (Kaïnsas meteorite [NHM catalogue]), Tongo-Tonguma Diamond Project (Tongo-Panguma Kimberlite Field), New Modderfontein Mine (Modderfontein Mine), KEM JV Mine (Kimberley Ekapa Mining Joint Venture mine; Kimberley Underground mine), Williamson Mine (Mwadui mine; Mwaudi kimberlite pipe; Wilsons pipe), Crater of Diamonds State Park (Prairie Creek Lamproite), Spring Valley Hydraulic Mine (Spring Valley Mine; Cherokee Mine; Cherokee Hydraulic Mine; Cherokee Placer Mine), Klamath River - Trinity River confluence area, French Corral placers (French Corral Diggings), Leoville meteorite (Leoville CV3 chondrite), J.C. 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Diamond is the best known thermal conductor (heat transfer) among naturally occurring substances. Gübelin, E. and Wolgensinger, M. (1976) Edelstenen. PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS: Color is variable and tends toward pale yellows, browns, grays, and also white, blue, black, reddish, greenish and colorless. Wade, F.B. ; Edited by Gordon R. Osinski and Elisabetta Pierazzo. Mineral. (in Dutch). Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 19, 563-577. (Prague). Klonowska, I., Janák, M., Majka, J., Petrik, I., Froitzheim, N., Gee, D. G., & Sasinková, V. (2017). (2020) Metasomatic Evolution of Coesite-Bearing Diamondiferous Eclogite from the Udachnaya Kimberlite. The Geological Society of South Africa; Cairncross, B. Durnez, E. (2008) Antwerpen, zuivere diamant. Geologické výzkumy na Morave a ve Slezsku 18, 1, 35-38. The Medieval History Journal, 3(2), 291-310. Mineralogical characterization of the diamond of the alluvial placer from Icabaru River, Santa Elena de Uairén, Bolivar State, Venezuela. A diamond ranks a 10 on the Mohs Hardness Scale. California Division of Mines and Geology, County Report 3: P. 104. Other Diagnostic Characteristics. Time-Life Books, Arlington, Virginia, USA, 176 pages. London: Hutchinson Benham. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 40 (9,Suppl. Mineralogical evidence for the origin of diamond in ureilites. (1990) Diamond inclusions in garnets from metamorphic rocks: a new environment for diamond formation. Mining Annual Review (1985) 147 & 415.; (2004): Presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2004, Abstract V14A-08. Peixue Tian, Qingsong Fang, Keqiao Chen, and Zhizhong Peng (1983): Acta Mineralogica Sinica 3(4), 241-245, http://www.chinamining.org/Facts/2006-10-16/1160979523d1588.html. (Dec 2003). ; Often, M. (1996): Diamanter i Norge ? B., ... & Cliff, J. 436, No. (2000). European Journal of Mineralogy, 24, 575-585. & E.P. Principais Depósitos Minerais Brasileiros - Gemas e Rochas Ornamentais. Ext. Geol. 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