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Russia Reveals Shiny State Secret: It's Awash in Diamonds


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Cal
- 248 days ago - csmonitor.com
'Trillions of carats' lie below a 35-million-year-old, 62-mile diameter asteroid crater in eastern Siberia known as Popigai Astroblem. The Russians have known about the site since the 1970s.



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Teresa Wlosowicz (562)
Monday September 17, 2012, 9:49 am
Wow!
 

Rosie Lopez (73)
Monday September 17, 2012, 10:43 am
oh my
 

Gran Pat (330)
Monday September 17, 2012, 12:28 pm
Cool, what a great find. Thanks, Cal for this.
 

John B. (183)
Monday September 17, 2012, 7:01 pm
Thanks Cal for the link to the Christian Science Monitor article by Fred Weir. That really should shake up the industrial diamond market. Read and noted.
 

Marie W. (49)
Monday September 17, 2012, 10:12 pm
Diamonds are overrated.
 

Elaya Raja (39)
Monday September 17, 2012, 11:26 pm
thanks
 

John S. (232)
Tuesday September 18, 2012, 3:12 am
Interesting.
 

Michael Kirkby (59)
Tuesday September 18, 2012, 4:12 pm
Noted
 

Mary Donnelly (43)
Tuesday September 18, 2012, 4:24 pm
Thanks Cal. I can understand why it's been kept a secret--too many diamonds and the price falls.
 

Rin S. (10)
Wednesday September 19, 2012, 3:12 am
Wow, fascinating!
 

john byrne (30)
Wednesday September 19, 2012, 5:53 am

time for bond to return
 

Penny B. (69)
Thursday September 20, 2012, 9:09 pm
Thanks, noted.
 
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