Rare rock with 30,000 diamonds examined | #Geology #GeologyPage Diamonds are beautiful and enigmatic. Though chemical reactions that create the highly coveted sparkles still remain a mystery, a professor from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is studying a rare rock covered in diamonds that may hold clues to the gems origins. The golf-ball sized chunk of rock contains more than 30,000 diamonds, each less than a millimeter in size (rendering them worthless), along with speckles of red and green garnet and other minerals. Read more : geologypage/2015/01/rare-rock-with-30000-diamonds-examined.html Geology Page geologypage
Posted on: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 04:00:01 +0000