Accelerated mineral bio-carbonation of coarse residue kimberlite material by inoculation with photosynthetic microbial mats [PDF]
Geochemical Transactions, 2023 Microbiological weathering of coarse residue deposit (CRD) kimberlite produced by the Venetia Diamond Mine, Limpopo, South Africa enhanced mineral carbonation relative to untreated material.
Thomas Ray Jones +4 more
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Mapping global kimberlite potential from reconstructions of mantle flow over the past billion years. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 Kimberlites are the primary source of economic grade diamonds. Their geologically rapid eruptions preferentially occur near or through thick and ancient continental lithosphere.
Anton Grabreck +2 more
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Success in restoring native plant communities on kimberlite mining dumps in the Afro‐alpine Drakensberg region of Lesotho [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionRehabilitation strategies for degraded mine dumps have generally seen limited success due to different complications associated with mining biophysical disturbance.
B. R. Ntloko +3 more
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A compilation and characterisation of lithics in kimberlite and common maar-diatremes and tephra ring deposits. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2021 Fitzgerald MK, White JDL.
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Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023 Northeastern Oman is characterized by carbonatite and kimberlite complexes, which are the ideal samples for studying the relationship between carbonatite and kimberlite. However, the ages of the Oman kimberlite and carbonatite complexes are still unknown,
Jing Sun +3 more
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Геодинамика и тектонофизика, 2022 The paper touches upon the relationships between kimberlite and basalt magmatism in the Nakyn field of the Yakutian kimberlite province. It was established, that the source for melts of pre-kimberlite basite was the ancient enriched lithosphere mantle ...
S. M. Sablukov, L. I. Sablukova
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A mantle origin for sulfates in the unusual “salty” Udachnaya-East kimberlite from sulfur abundances, speciation and their relationship with groundmass carbonates [PDF]
BSGF - Earth Sciences Bulletin, 2017 The Udachnaya-East pipe in Yakutia in Siberia hosts a unique dry (serpentine-free) body of hypabyssal kimberlite (
D’Eyrames Elisabeth +5 more
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IDENTIFICATION OF POTENTIAL ZONES FOR KIMBERLITE EXPLORATION – AN EARTH OBSERVATION APPROACH [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2018 In the present study, we have prepared the thematic evidence layers for identifying the potential zones of kimberlite emplacement in parts of Chhatarpur district, Madhya Pradesh.
A. Guha +9 more
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Геодинамика и тектонофизика, 2022 The study reports the mineral assemblage of the crystallized secondary melt inclusions in the olivine of sheared peridotites xenoliths from Bultfontein kimberlite pipe (Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa).
A. A. Tarasov +2 more
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Application of Tagged Neutron Method for Detecting Diamonds in Kimberlite
Instruments, 2020 The results of testing a prototype of a separator for detecting diamonds in kimberlite ore using tagged neutron method are discussed. Kimberlite ore was irradiated with fast tagged neutrons with an energy of 14.1 MeV.
Yury Rogov +3 more
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