08-April-2008, 09:00 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2002
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Originally Posted by Sean Clayden
...why is South Africa's geology so synonymous for Gold and Diamonds, why not any where else...
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Well, there's Canada:
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August 22, 2006
...diamonds from the recently discovered diamond fields in Canada’s Northwest Territories have found them to be the oldest precisely dated diamonds on Earth. They formed 3.5 billion years ago in an era called the Archean when the Earth was forming its first continents...
physorg
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and space:
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February 26, 2008
...If meteorites are a reflection of the dust content in outer space, calculations show that just a gram of dust and gas in a cosmic cloud could contain as many as 10,000 trillion nanodiamonds...
physorg
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