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All natural diamonds are erupted to the earth's surface through volcanic pipes, which are volcanic in their action, but not classified as what we've come to know as 'volcanoes'.
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How are diamonds extracted from Kimberlite?
Diamonds ascend to the Earth's surface in rare molten rock, or magma that originates at great depths. Carrying diamonds and other samples from Earth's mantle, this magma rises and erupts in small but violent volcanoes. Just beneath such volcanoes is a carrot-shaped "pipe" filled with volcanic rock, mantle fragments, and some embedded diamonds. The rock is called kimberlite after the city of Kimberley, South Africa, where the pipes were first discovered in the 1870s. Another rock that provides diamonds is lamproite. The extraction process can take place at the mine site, where the excavated material is washed and tumbled. Because diamond is heaviest of all the materials mined, it falls to the bottom and is otherwise sorted from the mined materials.
How are industrial diamonds formed?
Industrial diamonds are formed at the same time and in the same places as gem-quality diamonds. Industrial diamonds represent about 80% of all diamonds mined.
How are diamonds extracted from the ground?
Diamonds are mined.
How do volcanoes form in the ring of fire?
Volcanoes can form from other other volcanoes in the ring of fire
What rocks can scratch a diamonds?
Diamonds can only be scratched by other diamonds. Diamond is the hardest natural mineral.
What are the benefits to volcanoes?
The benefits of volcanoes are fertile land,obsidian,and diamonds and other jewels!
How do diamonds get to the surface?
Via rising molten magma or by mining.
What element are found in volcanoes in percent?
diamonds found inside the volcano
Why isn't there a distribution of minerals around the world?
There isn't an even distribution of mineral throughout the world because (for example), diamonds are found near volcanoes, so diamonds wouldn't be found in a place with no volcanoes. Hope this helps:)
Do all volcanoes have diamonds?
No volcano produces diamonds. Diamonds are erupted to the surface of the earth through volcanic pipes, which look like upside-down volcanoes. These pipes erupt indicator minerals, some of which include diamonds.
Are there any precious stones that come out of a volcanoes?
Some volcanoes, including Hawaii, occasionally produce sands which are composed of transparent green grains of the gemstone, peridot. On the Big Island, the sands mostly appear black except on a beach near the southernmost tip of the island.
Are diamonds made from volcanoes?
No. Diamonds are formed deep within the earth's mantel -- under enormous pressure and intense, high heat, then erupted to the surface by volcanic pipes.
How do volcanoes affect the production of land masses?
It affects the land by creating new rocks and plants such as basalt and diamonds.
Can diamond form inside a volcano?
No. As the pressure at the relatively shallow depths where volcanoes occur is not high enough to form diamonds. However it is true that volcanic eruptions can cause diamonds to be erupted onto the surface but these diamonds were already formed at much greater depth.
Are there diamonds in volcanic tubes?
Only in some. Most diamond mines are in or near formations called Kimberlite Pipes, which form as a result of a rather unusual type of volcanic acvtivty that has not beem witnessed in human history. These volcanoes do not form the diamonds, but rather bring the diamonds up from great depths.
Does Arkansas have any volcanoes?
Yes. Arkansas is the one of four places in North America where diamonds are mined, and the only place open to the public, and the diamonds found there are in a lamproite vein; that is, they are found in an extinct volcanic pipe at the Crater of Diamonds State Park.
What products are being produced by the people living near MtPinatubo as a result of the volcanoes most violent eruption?
the products are fertilizers, precious stones diamonds and cement from lahar
