*Are you a geologist?*

@@VPCh. diamonds and garnets are very exciting when it comes down to mineralogists studying kimberlites! They’re the sole thing that holds onto deep earth minerals at near the pressure they were formed at. Super interesting varieties of included ice have been found inside diamonds as well as the most abundant mineral in the Earth that almost no one has seen, ringwoodite!

I'm a geologist at a mine. Even if he didn't own mineral rights, he could still sell his property for a lot if they were found there. Mineral claims only give access to underground. If they want to have surface infrastructure, like building an open pit mine, they will need to buy the land.

@@VPCh. That's what he said as well, that they might own the mineral rights but they would have to compensate him for anything they did to the land. Now since the land in question was a wetland, protected by Michigan law, that could complicate things. Don't know where your mine is located, but in Michigan you don't mess with wetlands. A Baraga County couple found that out back in the '90's. They wanted to make some improvements to their land and they thought that they had all the permits in order so they went ahead and did the work. Well--turns out there was an i left undotted and a t left uncrossed because the next thing this couple knew, they were peacefully watching TV one night when all of a sudden their house was surrounded by a SWAT team and they were both hauled off to jail. It didn't matter that what they did to the wetland left it in better shape than before, they didn't finish jumping through all the required hoops and that was all that was needed to arrest these two apparently highly dangerous senior citizens. It was a widely publicized case and the Department of Natural Resources caught a lot of flack about how they handled it especially about the SWAT team. I was sure glad when Dad sold the land, diamonds or not, that was not something I wanted to deal with.

@theresemalmberg955 Yeah, wetlands are a huge pain to deal with. Our deposit has a lot of wetlands in the area and we are having to spend several years doing environmental assessments and mitigation prior to starting mining here. It's a high enough grade deposit that we are able to mine it, even with the wetland having to be cleared, but it makes our lives a lot more complex. The ultimate plan is to build a new wetland next to it, and then slowly clear the current one and redirect the life in it and the streams going through it into the new one. Then, after closing we will be able to merge them and create the old one on the filled in minesite again.

everyone knows that

Also because most diamonds are small and crappy.

Diamonds can also be created artificially. The quality of these artificial diamonds have improved greatly in recent years. The whole diamonds as jewellery industry is a big scam

Thank you de beers

Also, MOST diamonds are not "jewelry quality." Which is to say, they're extremely hard, extremely useful for specific industrial applications, and of zero interest to the con artists who want you to spend two months' salary on a rock for your betrothed.

Maybe the diamonds are in the middle, like raisins in a biscuit that are in the middle, so you can't see them.

I CAN HAS TEH DIAMONDZ DEN?

your right where can we get that jumper?

In any cliche, pretentious millennial store

@@thecorruptversion Well you certainly sound delightful.

@@MistaDobalinaMistaBobDobalina that keeps me up at night, if I sound delightful or not to a bunch of strangers online

@@thecorruptversion thats what an undelightful person would say

Yeah but note that here she focused on Kimberlite pipe eruptions rather than the larger volcanic pipe eruptions. Crater of Diamonds and the other 6 privately owned diamond bearing volcanic pipe intrusions in Arkansas are found in Lamproite pipe eruption craters. Lamproites don't get the same level of attention by miners since it is rarer for them to bear diamonds. The key distinction between Lamproites and Kimberlites outside of their chemical differences appears to be the age of the craton they erupted through, Kimberlites erupt through older Archean eon aged (2.4+ Ga) crust while Lamproites erupt through younger(but still ancient) Proterozoic aged (~1+ Ga) crust. So the chemistry differences probably have to do with the chemistry of the crust itself and may or may not arise as a consequence of whether they formed before or after/during the initiation of plate tectonics as we know it. Archean aged crust is apparently quite weird in terms of geological formations which look nothing like that of more recent geologic features which began to appear starting around 2.4 Ga. I have a suspicion the reasons these select few Lamproite pipes are Diamond bearing unlike most probably has to do with the Ouachita mountains overthickening the crust in the region possibly providing the pressure needed for diamonds which younger crust is less likely to have been subjected to.

God's goodness.

The kimberlites

Intriguing, even.

Ikr!

Reverse search the image on the internet and you might find an online listing

Don't take them for granite

Rocks are awesome!

@@MaekarManastorm good one 😆

Can you blame them? They rock!

@@williammatthews7735 another good response 😄

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Hot? It isn't magma if it is not.

😂😂😂 Yeah, Baby!!

lol…my line is from Dr. Evil… Yours reads like Dr. Seuss

At least 3

I know this is a joke, but, 40 (depending on your giraffes of course)

Pretty bad, apparently. Some concern has been expressed that a kimberlite eruption could be mistaken for a nuclear explosion, at least initially.

Go away

@@MaekarManastorm Milhouse.

My guess is they forgot to say "on average"

That would be because the diamond layer is 100kms below the surface, and the deepest we've been able to mine so far is 4kms

Of course, you want to be fashionably late-60 million years at least!

Olivine. Ie, olive-coloured.

@@thekaxmax 💚🟢

" I can buy a 100k machine and make all the diamonds I want.." - not large ones. Making micro-diamonds by shock is not going to get you a gem for trade.

And they have value even if you make them. There are people that rather have value for “synthetic” diamonds to avoid high cost, and also scientist or industries that will buy you at market balue

@@TheDanEdwards false, diamonds the size of a quarter. And like 9 at a time, kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q6uPhNGkzZfDYnU.htmlsi=6pEP68tx2NhR3jsq

The combination of ignorance and confidence is quite amusing. Let's see you make a diamond big enough for a modest wedding ring with your 100k machine 😂 diamond in general is cheap, big diamonds for jewelry is valuable.

...I don't think you understand what value means...

Yes, that's how averages work. You should have learned this in middle school

@@seivernoname-tz9uh I didn't though. I was too busy teaching myself precalc, whilst, simultaneously, taking Calc I, so that I could go on to get A's, in Calc I-III! My POINT was that I was wonderin' if it (the wild very specific volcanic eruption type that I am first learnin' about today) had anything to do with/any correlation with Younger-Dryas (sp?), and ITS Great Flood..? Not anything TO DO with either ACTUAL NUMBER -- 10,000/10,200 -- in, or OF THEMSELVES... LmMFaO! ;) :P :o)

That's how science works. It's constantly updating itself. This is just our current understanding based on all the physical and mathmatical evidence we currently have avalible

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Because all the diamond companies are owned by a single corporation and your only three options are payong whatever price they tell you to pay, buy a man-made diamond, or dont but a diamond

Naught but cows, the lot of us.

Look at ants, bees and so on. And remember that resources not endless, but too many people don't want to optimize their waste. Real price of fuel like gasoline must be much more then now. Construction at the expense of the budget must be less, and so on (corruption). Read "Growth" by Smil, "Darwin's Cathedral" by Wilson (short in russian - "Эволюция кооперации и альтруизма" Марков) and maybe "The Language of God" by Collins (biologist).

It isn't how you'd write it in a paper, sure, but lots of science starts with someone thinking "that's weird, why does that happen?"!

They've covered it elsewhere.

Low quality diamonds aren't rare. High quality is rare and because of that it's reflected in the price. Don't like it? Don't buy it.

@@00dfm00 also not true, and I wont

​@@00dfm00 high quality diamonds are rare, but not that rare. And taking into account that the diamond mining industry works like the petrol one, where they control the amount of production to force prices up, and the effort they put on marking the natural diamonds as better than the artificially made, I'd say and quite sure that even high quality diamonds are super overpriced. But feel free to buy them if you fancy then

Language isn’t a fixed rule. Changes over time and culture morph words and meanings. Even if words were stagnant and never changing, meaning still would be dependent on the individual based on perspective and interpretation. For example, the definition of Love. If you understand the intent behind the words, no need to try to correct. Because words are trying to convey an idea, and they did their job.

@@KyleTheShaman Languages can evolve and also de-evolve over time. Scientists use Latin because as a dead language it never changes.