Remarkableriots Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 https://www.livescience.com/63074-earth-interior-full-of-diamonds.html Quote That special mineral that humans use to profess their love for one another? It might not be so special. A new study suggests that Earth's interior is filled with a quadrillion tons of diamonds. A new study published in June in the journal Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems suggests that there are 1,000 times more diamonds below the surface of the Earth than was previously thought. But these diamonds are unreachable: They're located about 90 to 150 miles (145 to 240 kilometers) below the surface of the Earth in the "roots" of cratons, which are large sections of rock. Cratons lie beneath most continental tectonic plates and have barely moved since ancient times, according to a statement from MIT News D1P needs to figure out how to reach them so we could be rich! Quote The Earth has a diamond-encrusted interior that’s lined with over a quadrillion tons of the precious stone worth a mind-boggling £68,600,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 – that’s 68 septillion pounds. Scientists made the blingin’ discovery after monitoring sound waves to uncover the types of rocks hiding beneath our planet’s surface. https://www.thesun.ie/tech/2862023/secret-stash-of-more-than-a-quadrillion-diamonds-hiding-below-earths-surface/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 WHERE THERE'S A WILL THERE'S A WAY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 Turning tags into prefixes makes @SFLUFAN cry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaku3 Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 I remember Adam saying in one of his videos that diamond's aren't rare it's just the company (forgot it's name) has a monopoly on supply. Assuming we get the diamond's we'd be tanking the market for diamonds with a glut of supply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 56 minutes ago, Zaku3 said: I remember Adam saying in one of his videos that diamond's aren't rare it's just the company (forgot it's name) has a monopoly on supply. Assuming we get the diamond's we'd be tanking the market for diamonds with a glut of supply. DeBeers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 Assuming that this is true, then it doesn't really affect the rarity of diamonds since we have no foreseeable way of extracting them from the mantle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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TwinIon Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 Time to spin the Kola Borehole back up. Only 83-143 miles left to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneticBlueprint Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 We wouldn't get rich because the supply would outweigh the demand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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