There may be more than a quadrillion tons of diamond hidden in the Earth’s interior, according to a new study from MIT and other universities. But the new results are unlikely to set off a diamond rush. The scientists estimate the precious minerals are buried more than 100 miles below the surface, far deeper than any drilling expedition has ever reached.
The ultradeep cache may be scattered within cratonic roots — the oldest and most immovable sections of rock that lie beneath the center of most continental tectonic plates. Shaped like inverted mountains, cratons can stretch as deep as 200 miles through the Earth’s crust and into its mantle; geologists refer to their deepest sections as “roots.”
In the new study, scientists estimate that cratonic roots may contain 1 to 2 percent diamond. Considering the total volume of cratonic roots in the Earth, the team figures that about a quadrillion (1016) tons of diamond are scattered within these ancient rocks, 90 to 150 miles below the surface.
“This shows that diamond is not perhaps this exotic mineral, but on the [geological] scale of things, it’s relatively common,” says Ulrich Faul, a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences. “We can’t get at them, but still, there is much more diamond there than we have ever thought before.”
more evidence that diamonds really arent worth much at all
Landon Robinson
Diamonds are not a rare stone and was turned into some valuable piece of crap by jews after buying up most the diamond trade and then hiding them in British vaults. Who gives a shit anymore. Hell, we can artificially create them anyways but they aren't "legitimate" to sell because said jews have a marking system to validate natural diamonds vs artificially created ones.
Hudson Powell
There are a quadrillion tons of diamonds locked in vaults to drive the prices of diamonds up. Diamonds are a scam.
David Sanchez
Oh No! Whatever in the world will DeBeers do now?
Hudson James
Pic related is an actually valuable gemstone. Fuck diamonds.
Go deeper and there's more. This is shit fucking children figured out when they learned how diamonds were formed in 6th grade science/geometry class and the Earth. Protip: diamonds are extremely common regardless of this. There's a group of white men who hoard them in warehouses to prop up the prices.
Hudson Clark
Helium is valuable too.
Evan Sanchez
Apparently we're "running" out of helium or something.
Brayden Powell
It's essential for MRI machines and we fill balloons and let them go
John Miller
Sure.
Gavin Hughes
Fixed
David Phillips
build more nuclear power plants and collect it from them.
Isaac Ramirez
(((white men)))
Mason Ward
Yeah the cost of tri mix for mig welding stainless shot up because of that
Thomas Russell
Blood Dragon?
Tyler Rivera
/thread
Christopher Kelly
Diamonds are worthless. People think they're some rare valuable thing but you don't even need to go mining for them. In some places you can find them just laying on the ground. Common as hell.
The only way to produce more is to create radioactive beta participle decay, and the only known major reserve is in Texas. Most helium escaped the Earth's atmosphere back when the Earth was hit by the asteroid that fucked the planet too hard and deposited our iron core. It's essential for medical technology and it has really useful properties for superconductive materials and metamaterial science
Hudson Jones
I appreciate your meme, fellow of fine taste.
Charles Sullivan
I thought we already knew this? Ever watch The Core? Apparently the mantle is full of diamonds. And, Uranus and Neptune have diamond "ice bergs" Also, there's a carbon star made literally of diamond somewhere in our galaxy.
Leo Ortiz
It doesn't work that way. We need fusion to create Helium-4 and we've been "50 years away" from fusion for 60 years.
Aiden Stewart
Opals are better.
Isaiah Bell
Helium escapes our atmosphere naturally. It floats up to the ionosphere and gets whisked away by solar winds.
Nicholas Butler
If it wasn't for women and jews, we would have grown our interstellar space-ship hulls out of diamond in giant orbital nanobot vats by now.