Russian government on 18 September 2012
declassified its diamond reserves formed after a 7 kilometer wide
asteroid stroked the graphite rich area of Russia, about 35 million
years ago. The most valuable secret of Russian Cold War was kept hidden
from the rest of the world for more than five decades. The reserve was
discovered by the Russians during the mid 1960s.
The huge deposits of hard diamond, which
can fulfill the demands of the world for next 3000 years was discovered
in the Popigoi crater in East Siberia in an asteroid with diameter of
120 kilometers. Russian scientists from the Novosibirsk Institute of
Geology and Mineralogy claimed that the total quantity of the available
diamond in the crater is more than 10 times of the total reserve of
diamond that the world have.
These diamonds are an ideal material for
industrial use and are twice harder than that of the technical diamonds
generally used for industrial purposes. Declassification of the hidden
reserves can’t be used as jewellery item, so will not have any impact in
the jewel making industry of the world.
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