Sites discovered the diamonds that could lead to a technical revolution

Diamond deposits are located in the crater formed by a meteorite 35 million years ago

Scientists of the Institute of Geology and Mineralogy Siberian Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Novosibirsk released so far secret location sites superhard diamonds, conveyed today the Russian media.

Of diamonds, twice harder than ordinary, located on the border Krasnojarskog region and Yakutia, in the area of ​​the crater formed by a meteorite 35 million years ago.

Soviet scientists back in the seventies there found the first diamonds - Impact with unusual properties: they are twice as strong as normal and had a different structure, but as the time began building factories for prozivodnju synthetic diamonds, studies were suspended on information on the site put the label of secrecy.

After declassifying geologists were able to return to the study of the properties of this mineral.

Zomm forward!

He says the institute's director Nikolai Pohilenko, "but first results are sufficient that we can talk about a possible turnabout on the entire diamond market."

Resources superhard diamonds, which are found in rocks of the crater Poligaj substantially exceed all tested world reserves - it's about trillions cards, said Pohilenko and, for comparison, said today that the reserves surveyed sites in Yakutia the billion-graded cards.

Deputy director of the institute "Jakutnipromalmaz" Gennady Nikitin told Itar-tas with that poligjaski diamonds "can reverse all, and what will then happen to prices in the market, is not clear."

According to academics Pohilenka, impact diamonds add value to unusual abrasive properties and large scale grain.

"This significantly expands the sphere of their industrial applications and makes them valuable for industrial purposes, in the processing of metals, semiconductors and making efficient like that," explained the scientist.

He added that nowhere in the world have not yet found impaktiti with such characteristics, which experts the opportunity to talk about their extraterrestrial origin and that Russia becomes the sole owner of limitless reserves of unique raw material, which is required in the field of modern technology.

According to calculations of scientists, reserve and resource "will be sufficient over the world for three thousand years," and the application of these minerals, they believe, in the manufacturing industry is able to perform technical revolution.

A number of major corporations have demonstrated a serious interest in the raw material and that the matter was discussed at a round table "for the new economy, new materials," held at the Novosibirsk Forum "2012 Inter."