International Kimberlite Conference: Extended Abstracts

Extended Abstracts

• Celebrating the lives and contributions of colleagues, geologists, mineralogists and legends who shaped the diamond legacy

  John Bristow, Paddy Lawless, Bill McKechnie, Stephen. Haggerty

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• The Ekati and Diavik Discoveries – Canada’s Entry to Global Diamond Production

  Jon A. Carlson

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• Advancements in Kimberlite Geology After 30 Years of Kimberlite Exploration, Evaluation and Mining in Canada

  Casey Hetman

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• Seismic Thermography of Continental Lithosphere: Structure, Evolution, and Controls on the Distribution of Kimberlites and Other Mineral Deposits

  Sergei Lebedev, Sally Gibson, Javier Fullea, Yihe Xu, Raffaele Bonadio, Felix Davidson

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• Sublithospheric diamond ages and their geodynamic implications

  Suzette Timmerman, Qiwei Zhang, Thomas Stachel, Karen V. Smit, Jeffrey W. Harris, Steven B. Shirey, D. Graham Pearson

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• Estimating diamond price for mineral resources and reserves; new observations and insights

  Andy T. Davy, Malcolm L. Thurston, Chris Gordon-Coker, Frans Drybooms

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• A universal concept of melting in mantle upwellings: all deep melts are born kimberlitic

  Max W. Schmidt, Andrea Giuliani, Nadezdha Paneva

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• Diamond Exploration and Regional Prospectivity of Greenland

  Mark T. Hutchison

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• Geochronology of the Qeqertaa Diamondiferous Ultramafic Lamprophyre, West Greenland

  Mark T. Hutchison, Christopher L. Kirkland, Bruno B. Ribeiro, Stefan Bernstein

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• When diamonds are not pure diamond: amorphous carbon (a-C) grain boundary complexions in natural diamond aggregates

  Samantha Perritt

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• TiO2 exsolution as a cause of ferropericlase inclusion iridescence in diamond

  Samantha Perritt, Gert van der Linde

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• The last 10-15 years of research on non-kimberlitic diatremes, with implications for kimberlite emplacement

  Pierre-Simon Ross, Greg A. Valentine, James D.L. White

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• Jwaneng — The Untold Story of The Discovery of the World’s Richest Diamond Mine

  Norman Lock

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• Dachine Revisited

  Jaques Letendre

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• Geochemistry of potassic sills and dykes from Jharkhand: Implications for the Cretaceous lamproite magmatism of eastern India in proximity to the Kerguelen mantle plume

  Parminder Kaur, Gurmeet Kaur, Sebastian Tappe

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• Nature and origin of lamproite hypabyssal intrusives from the Jharia basin in eastern India

  Parminder Kaur, Gurmeet Kaur, Roger H. Mitchell, Sebastian Tappe

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• Water in cratonic eclogites and pyroxenites from the Sask and Superior Cratons: impacts of tectonothermal events on mantle lithosphere evolution and dynamics

  Rondi Davies, Sonja Aulbach, Thomas Stachel

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• Kimberlites and lamproites in Zambia

  Alec L. Hawkes

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• Diamonds delivered to the West Coast of southern African from erosion of Kaapvaal based kimberlites and lamproites

  Mike de Wit

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• Reflectance spectroscopy for investigating diamond inclusions and kimberlite indicator minerals

  Edward Cloutis, Daniel Applin, Selena Lambert, Kristi Peters

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• Updated geochronology of the central Slave craton – duration, pulses and time-integrated source variability

  Chiranjeeb Sarkar, Alan Kobussen, Janet Morrissey, Bruce A. Kjarsgaard, D. Graham Pearson

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• Petrology, geochemistry, and geochronology of the Pikoo Kimberlites, Saskatchewan

  D. Smyth, Chiranjeeb Sarkar, Bruce Kjarsgaard, D. Graham Pearson

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• Sedimentology and source provenance analysis of diamondiferous gravels of the Middle Orange River, Northern Cape Province, South Africa

  Cameron McLaren, Lyndon de Meillon, Bastien Linol, Nicolas Tonnelier

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• Ultra-refractory peridotites in the modern and ancient Earth and their implications for origins of Archean cratonic roots

  James M. Scott, D. Graham Pearson, Nadine P. Cooper, Jingao Liu, Bob Luth, Carsten Münker

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• A Russian doll diamond in the making

  Jeffrey W. Harris, Thomas Stachel

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• Lu-Hf chronometry of continuous metasomatic enrichment of the cratonic mantle

  Kira A. Musiyachenko, Matthijs A. Smit, Maya G. Kopylova, Audrey V. Korsakov

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• The origin of Karoo-age diamondiferous lamproites in Zambia

  Ntando S. Ngwenya, Sebastian Tappe, Andreas Stracke, Rolf L. Romer, Axel K. Schmitt

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• Probing the northern Kaapvaal craton root with mantle-derived xenocrysts from the Marsfontein orangeite diatreme, South Africa

  Ntando.S. Ngwenya, Sebastian Tappe, K.A. Smart, D.C. Hezel, J.A.H. Campbell, K.S. Viljoen

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• Several Questions in Searching for Diamondiferous Kimberlite in China

  Yi Ding, R.X. Song, Q. Zhou, ZY Li, W.G. Tan, H. Xiang

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• Discovery in Tracing Diamonds in South Linyi

  Yi Ding, Bingjian J. Xiao, Zheng Hou, T.Y. Wang, Y.F. Wang, X.F. Du, C.P. Zong

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• Kimberlites and basaltic melts as key tracers of Earth’s least processed mantle reservoirs

  Jingao Liu, Ronghua Cai, D. Graham Pearson, Andrea Giuliani, Peter E. van Keken, Senan Oesch

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• V/Sc in garnet xenocrysts: new oxybarometry frontiers for the SCLM

  Lynthener B. Takenaka, William L. Griffin, Olivier Alard, Mathieu Chassé, Suzanne Y. O'Reilly

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• Large scale rejuvenation of lithospheric mantle beneath Jwaneng, Botswana: implication for diamond growth and destruction

  Gareth R. Davies, Reimer A.C. Visser, Matteo Branchetti, Jonathan C.O. Zepper, Michael U. Gress, Anna S.M. Pals, D.Graham Pearson, Laurie Reisberg, Janne M. Koornneef, Robin Preston, Ingrid L. Chinn

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• Diamond deposit valuations using size frequency distributions and price modelling

  John Chapman

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• Impact of High-Power Microwave Treatment on Comminution and Downstream Processing of Kimberlite Ores

  R. Borhan Mehr, Christopher A. Pickles, Jane Danoczi, Mike McCubbing, John Forster, Xinyi Tian

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• Tracing the relative roles of lithospheric and sublithospheric mantle in kimberlite source regions using highly siderophile elements and Re-Os isotope systematics

  Yong Xu, D.Graham Pearson, Bruce Kjarsgaard, Sarah Woodland, Jingao Liu

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• Sheared peridotites: linking deformation and H2O metasomatism to the onset of craton destabilization

  Catharina Heckel, Alan B. Woodland, Sally A. Gibson, Linckens Jolien, Anthony C. Withers, Hans-Michael Seitz, Ludwig Thomas

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• A sheared ilmenite-dunite xenolith from Lesotho: witness of deformation, metasomatism and perturbation of the lithosphere

  Catharina Heckel, Alan B. Woodland, Sally A. Gibson

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• Insights in Na-contents of kimberlite melts from experimentally determined partition coefficients between olivine and silicate-carbonate melt

  Rebecca Fabiana Zech, Andrea Giuliani, Max Werner Schmidt

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• Constraints on the distribution, composition, and lithology of eclogite-pyroxenite xenoliths from the central Slave Craton mantle root

  Matthew F. Hardman, Thomas Stachel, D. Graham Pearson, Richard A. Stern, Mei Yan Lai

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• Geodynamic modelling of cratonic basins – hosts for diamonds and gold

  Kristina Kublik, Claire A. Currie, D.Graham Pearson

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• Sublithospheric Diamonds and Indicator Minerals from DO-27 Kimberlite, Slave Craton, Canada– Geochemistry, Age and Origin

  Qiwei Zhang, Suzette Timmerman, Irina Malakhova, Thomas Stachel, Robert Luth, Barrett Elliott, Ingrid Chinn, Michael Seller, Fabrizio Nestola, Joshua Davies, Richard Stern, Bruce Kjarsgaard, D. Graham Pearson

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• A Classification System Precisely Distinguishing Diamond Mineral Inclusion Compositions from Indicator Minerals from Barren Sources

  Charles Fipke, Forough Hobuti, Norton Redlich, Michael Whitehead, Chad Ulansky

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• Machine learning classification on the chemical compositions of lithospheric diamonds and their inclusions

  Jiali Lei, J ZhangZhou, Earth Data Group ZJU

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• Fluid escape from diamond caught-in-the-act: towards the composition and origin of diamond-forming fluids

  Luísa D.V. Carvalho, Thomas Stachel, Robert W. Luth, Andrew J. Locock, D. Graham Pearson, Matthew Steele-MacInnis, Richard A. Stern, Fabrizio Nestola, Ricardo Scholz, Tiago Jalowitzki, Reinhardt A. Fuck

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• Zn and Fe isotopes indicate that kimberlites and silica-undersaturated magmas derive from similar asthenospheric mantle sources

  Ronghua Cai, Andrea Giuliani, Paolo A. Sossi, Tian-Hao Wu, Yongsheng He, Sheng-Ao Liu, D. Graham Pearson, Jingao Liu

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• Formation and evolution of the subcontinental lithospheric mantle beneath accretionary orogenic belts: implications for the birth of future cratons

  Yuchen Liu, Gongcheng Tian, Yong Xu, James M. Scott, Jingao Liu

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• Evolution of Kimberlite Exploration - Systematic exploration using a ground geophysical toolbox for kimberlites, Slave Craton, NWT, Canada (Part 1)

  Darrell Epp, Chris Hrkac, Gary Vivian, Eileen Lyon, Tom McCandless, Dave Sacco

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• Lessons from Letseng – Evidence in support of the Flamboyant Megacryst

  Norman Lock

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• Understanding Kimberlite Crystallisation and Emplacement: Insights from Reaction Products on Ilmenite and Chromite

  Lydia Fairhurst, Yana Fedortchouk, Ingrid Chinn, Philippe Normandeau, Michael Powell

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• Structural analysis of active quarries in the Quaternary Western Eifel volcanic field and their relevance for the formation of diatremes

  Georg Büchel, Michael Ort, Volker Lorenz, Nancy Riggs

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• Carbon with diamond structure in phlogopite in peridotite,Barr Slope Mine, Dixonville, Pennsylvania

  Chien-lu Chan

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• Diamonds from Fort à la Corne – post-Archean formation in exceptionally cool and fertile lherzolitic substrates

  Anetta Banas, Thomas Stachel, D. Graham Pearson, George Read

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• Cr-rich megacrysts in kimberlite

  Daniel J. Schulze

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• Predicting geochemical and isotopic compositions as well as lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary depth and diamond grade in kimberlites and lamproite using Artificial Intelligence

  Luc S. Doucet, Andrea Giuliani

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• Emplacement of the Argyle diamond deposit into an ancient rift zone triggered by supercontinent breakup

  Luc S. Doucet, Hugo K.H. Olierook, Denis Fougerouse, Yebo Liu, Murray J. Rayner, Martin Danišík, Daniel J. Condon, Brent I.A. McInnes, A. Lynton Jaques, Noreen J. Evans, Bradley J. McDonald, Zheng-xiang Li, Christopher L. Kirkland, Celia Mayers, Michael T.D. Wingate

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• Mapping Global Lithospheric Mantle Pressure‐Temperature Conditions by Machine‐Learning Thermobarometry

  Ben Qin, Chenyang Ye, Jingao Liu, Shichun Huang, Shunguo Wang, J. ZhangZhou

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• Lithospheric mantle sampling of kimberlites and lamproites using Al-in-olivine thermometry

  Merrily M. Tau, Geoffrey H. Howarth, Andrea Giuliani

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• Volcanology of selected kimberlites from the Lulo kimberlite field, Angola

  Jena Moldenhauer, Geoffrey H. Howarth, Philip Janney, Richard Price, Felix Moore

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• Multistage diamond formation, mantle uplift and changing geothermal regimes recorded by inclusions in Kimberley diamonds

  Paolo Nimis, Herman Grütter, Fabrizio Nesola

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• Diversity of crystallization conditions of hypabyssal and coherent kimberlites recorded in diamond surface textures

  Yana Fedortchouk, Ingrid Chinn, Shahbaz Bin Khalid, Elliot J.M. Bird, Rosa Toutah, Guangyuan Yu, Thomas Pierce-Jones, Jon Carlson, Tom Nowicki

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• Metasomatism of the deep root of the Slave craton by melts from subducted oceanic crust

  Sarah E. Brooker, Jaime D. Barnes, John C. Lassiter, Aaron Satkoski, D. Graham Pearson

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• Leveraging AI to eliminate bias in kimberlite core logging

  Muhammad Naveed Iqbal Qureshi, Alexandrina Fulop

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• Petrology and Geochronology of kimberlites from the Victoria Island field, NU/NT, Canada

  Alex A. Müller, Chiranjeeb Sarkar, Sarah J. Woodland, James LeBlanc, Bruce A. Kjarsgaard, D.Graham Pearson

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• Mesoproterozoic diamond formation in the Sask craton mantle root: A far-field link to the Mackenzie large igneous event?

  Sarah E.M. Milne, Suzette Timmerman, George Read, D. Graham Pearson, Anetta Banas, Thomas Stachel

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• Canadian Kimberlite Pipe Morphology: Insights from Analogue Experiments

  David E. Newton

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• Diamond preservation in the lithospheric mantle recorded by olivine in kimberlites

  Andrea Giuliani, David Phillips, D. Graham Pearson, Soumendu Sarkar, Alex A. Müller, Yaakov Weiss, Robin Preston, Mikael Seller, Zdislav Spetsius

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• Developing thermochemical models of Canada's lithosphere

  Dave Riddhi, Andrew Schaeffer

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• Occurrence and Recovery of Rare Earth Elements from Kimberlite Tailings in Diamond Mines

  Mohammed Nayeem Rifkhan, Yana Fedortchouk, Gideon L. Lambiv Dzemua, Ingrid L. Chinn, Felix Mensah-Yeboah, Michelle Peters

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• Sodic Cr-diopside compositions record profound pyroxenite/megacrystic (re)fertilization of the central Superior craton lithosphere, Attawapiskat kimberlites, Ontario, Canada

  Herman Grütter, Thomas Stachel, Chiranjeeb Sarkar, Graham Pearson

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• A21 - Diavik's Newest Underground Mine

  Philip Lewis, Christopher Auld

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• The Occurrence of Diamond in the HPHT Metal-Chromite-Carbon System: Implications for Diamond in Ophiolites

  Zhiyun Lu, Jingsui Yang, Dongyang Lian, Yun Wang

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• The origin of Camp Alpha megacrysts and their relationship to kimberlite magmatism - Liberia, West African Craton

  Ellwin Taleni Shiimi, Geoffrey H. Howarth, Philip E. Janney, Stephen E. Haggerty

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• Geology of the Lulo kimberlite cluster of Lunda Norte Province of Angola

  Richard J. Price, Paul G. Allan, Rapula Tshekedi

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• Hollandite group minerals in Lamproites from the Jharia Coalfield, Damodar Valley, India

  Gurmeet Kaur, Roger H. Michell

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• Enhancing Large Diamond Recovery: An Overview of X-ray Transmission (XRT) Technology

  Corné de Jager, John Houghton

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• New technologies: a paradigm shift in kimberlite core logging

  Alexandrina Fulop, Lucas Lemotlo, Naveed Qureshi

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• Microdiamonds from Tonian plume-related LIP, North China Craton (NCC)

  Yun Wang, Jingsui Yang, Richard Wirth, Zhiyun Lu

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• Laser ablation of ‘diamonds-in-water’ – a new technique for digging deeper

  Yaakov Weiss, Steffen Jockusch, Gonzalo Guadaño

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• Constraining the chemical and thermal structure of the Kaapvaal Craton subcontinental lithospheric mantle using kimberlite-indicator-mineral geochemistry

  Sinelethu Hashibi, Philip E. Janney, R. Alastair Sloan

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• Geochemical Characteristics and U-Pb chronological of Apatite in Diamondiferous Kimberlite Pipes, the North China Craton (NCC)

  Chu-Qi Cao, Jing-Sui Yang, Li-Guang Liu, Sheng-Biao Yang

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• Diamonds in the Kimberley area formed from mantle volatiles

  Pierre Cartigny, E. Thomassot, Jeff W. Harris

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• Thermal and chemical structure of on- and off-craton lithosphere in central Africa from kimberlite indicator minerals

  Philip E. Janney, Fillsmith Luzolo-Ndongani, Buliba J. Nkere, Daniel Demaiffe, Thierry De Putter, Sinelethu Hashibi, G.H. Howarth, Michiel de Wit, Richard Price

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• Mineralogical Features and Comparison of Diamonds from Three Kimberlite Belts in Mengyin, China

  Fei Liu, Qing Lv, Yun Wang, Xiaoyan Yu, Jingsui Yang

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• Petrology, Geochemistry, and Geochronology of the Dharma Kimberlites, Northwest Territories, Canada

  Nikita Kepezhinskas, Bruce A. Kjarsgaard, Chiranjeeb Sarkar, Yan Luo, Andrew J. Locock, D. Graham Pearson

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• A snapshot of mantle metasomatism recorded by clinopyroxene inclusions in diamonds

  Ekaterina S. Kiseeva, Wen-Yu Wang, Nester M. Korolev, Maya Kopylova, Yaakov Weiss, Andy Moore, Jim Davidson, Evgeny Vasiliev

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• Kimberlite apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronology of the Canadian Arctic: what fraction of kimberlites were eroded?

  Spencer D. Zeigler, Rebecca M. Flowers, D. Graham Pearson, Bruce A. Kjarsgaard

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• (U-Th)/He geochronology of kimberlite zircon megacrysts: a new chronometer for dating emplacement

  Spencer D. Zeigler, Rebecca M. Flowers, D. Graham Pearson, Bruce A. Kjarsgaard

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• Oxidized and reduced Ni-rich phases in Voorspoed diamonds

  Oded Navon, Yael Kempe, Sergei Remennik, Oliver Tschauner, Yaakov Weiss

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• Sources and ages of diamond-forming fluids in the lithospheric mantle

  Weiss Yaakov, Janne M. Koornneef, Gareth R. Davies

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• CO2 nanoinclusions in diamonds

  Oded Navon, Yael Kempe, Sergei Remennik, Yitshak Avigad, Janina Czas, Yaakov Weiss

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• Diamond Mining in Canada – An Evolving Mine Engineering Knowledge Base

  Jaroslav Jakubec

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• Find The Hidden Diamond Ore Body Nearby No.50 Kimberlite Pipe in Wafangdian Area, Liaoning, China

  Fu Haitao, Hongbin Xu

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• Southeast Slave Craton Lithosphere, Revisited

  Bruce A. Kjarsgaard, D. Graham Pearson, Andrew Locock, Sarah Woodland, Janina Czas, Kathy Mather, Mike Seller

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• Diavik Diamond Mine Update

  Matthew Breen

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• Magmatic expressions of the Mesoproterozoic Midcontinent Rift and consequences for sampling diamonds – ultramafic lamprophyres from the Superior craton

  Fiona Clark, Chiranjeeb Sarkar, Thomas Stachel, Herman S. Grütter, D. Graham Pearson

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• The effect of crustal xenolith-kimberlite reaction on host kimberlite classification: The Pionerskaya case

  Amy Mailey, Maya G. Kopylova, Anna Nosova

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• Metasomatic textural changes in hypabyssal transitional kimberlites: Inferences for the texture and mineralogy of KPK

  Maya Kopylova, Sofya Niyazova, Clara Sismondo, Matthew Gaudet

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• Dating perovskites from kimberlites of the Alto Paranaiba Igneous Province, Brazil: challenges, strategies and geodynamic implications

  Rogério Azzone, D. Graham Pearson, Chiranjeeb Sarkar, Lina Maria Certina Tarazona, Luanna Chmyz, Yan Luo, Ruberti Excelso, Vincenza Guarino, Izaac Cabral Neto

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• Mantle compositional architecture and diamond potential for the Alto Paranaíba Igneous Province, Brazil: compositional signatures from garnet xenocrysts in kimberlites

  Julia Christina Bandeira Lino De Souza, Rogério Guitarrari Azzone, Excelso Ruberti, D. Graham Pearson, Chiranjeeb Sarkar, Luanna Chmyz, Cassandra Terra Barbosa, Izaac Cabral Neto, Luísa D.V. Carvalho

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• Kimberlites from Chicoria Creek, Juina, Brazil: Two broadly differing diamond and indicator mineral suites pointing to subduction and plate melting

  Harrison Cookenboo, Leila Benitez, Vinicius Furquimm

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• Effects of melt depletion and metasomatism on U-Th-Pb behavior in cratonic mantle

  Diego Toro Vivanco, Jörg Hermann, Phil Janney, Suzette Timmerman

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• Vertical Cutter Mining – A sustainable technology for mining of small vertical kimberlite bodies and veins

  Ulrich Schoepf

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• Dynamical properties of defects in diamond

  Razvan Caracas

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• Exploring for concealed kimberlites: increasing discovery success with soil microbial community fingerprints

  Bianca P. Iulianella Phillips, Rachel L. Simister, Andy P. Wickham, Erika M. Cayer, Craig J.R. Hart, Peter A. Winterburn, Sean A. Crowe

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• Diamonds in the oceanic mantle: a new occurrence on Earth

  Jingsui Yang, Dongyang Lian, Paul Robinson, Fei Liu, Yildirim Dilek

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• Mineral inclusions in E-type diamonds from the Siberian craton: witnesses of Archaean mantle redox heterogeneities and eclogite buffering capacity

  Giulia Marras, Denis Mikhailenko, Catherine McCammon, Sonja Aulbach, Alla Logvinova, Dmitry Zedgenizov, Vincenzo Stagno

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• Ferric iron measurements of coexisting garnet and clinopyroxene in grospydite xenoliths from Zagadochnaya kimberlite pipe (Yakutia, Siberian craton)

  Giulia Marras, Denis Mikhailenko, Catherine McCammon, Alla Logvinova, Darko Hanzel, Vincenzo Stagno

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• Kimberlite magmatism fed by broad upwelling above mobile basal mantle structures

  Nicolas Flament, Omer Bodur, Anton Grabreck, Simon Williams, Andrew Merdith

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• How old are diamonds beneath Proterozoic cratons? Answers from the State Line Kimberlite District, western Laurentia

  Melissa S. Bowerman, Suzette Timmerman, Thomas Stachel, Malcolm McCallum, Ingrid Chinn, D. Graham Pearson

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• Revisiting Sr-Nd-Hf isotope variations in global cratonic lamproites

  Soumendu Sarkar, Hayden Dalton, Andrea Giuliani, David Phillips, D.Graham Pearson, Geoff M. Nowell, Jon D. Woodhead, Janet Hergt, Roland Maas, A. Lynton Jaques, N.V.Chalapathi Rao, Sujoy Ghosh, Yaakov Weiss

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• Major Element Indicator Mineral Chemistry of the Lulo Kimberlite Province, Lunda Norte, Angola

  Paul Allan

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• Arc Mantle Redox since Archean: Insights from Machine Learning, Statistics and Thermodynamic Modeling

  Chun-Tao Liu, Chen-Yang Ye, J. ZhangZhou

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• Eclogitic zircon geochronology and trace element geochemistry: an investigation of mantle metasomatism from the Cretaceous to the Archean beneath the Kaapvaal craton

  Molly K. Paul, Mark D. Schmitz

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• Geochemistry, petrography, and zircon geochronology of MARID xenoliths from the Kaapvaal craton, southern Africa

  Molly K. Paul, Darin Schwartz, Mark D. Schmitz

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• Probing the Diamond potential of the North American Lithosphere using seismic tomography

  Andrew J. Schaeffer, Pascal Audet

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• Imaging the cratonic mantle lithosphere-kimberlite system beneath Kimberley (Kaapvaal craton) with in-situ U-Pb and geochemical analyses

  Leo J. Millonig, Aratz Beranoaguirre, Daniel J. Schulze, Sonja Aulbach

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• Origins and timing of amphibole and phlogopite formation in kimberlite-borne eclogite and pyroxenite xenoliths

  Sonja Aulbach, Klaudia Kuiper, Christel Tinguely, Dorrit Jacob, Jan Wijbrans, Anton Le Roex

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• Trace element compositions of diamond-forming fluids in Voorspoed diamonds

  Yael Kempe, Ofir Tirosh, Ingrid L. Chinn, Yaakov Weiss

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• Quantifying the thickness of the Archean lithosphere beneath the western Kaapvaal craton at the time of Zero kimberlite emplacement (1.6 Ga)

  Zuko Qashani, Gary O'Sullivan, Philip E. Janney, Emma L. Tomlinson

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• Revisiting the origin of Cr in cratonic peridotite

  Emma L. Tomlinson

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• Subduction involved in generating thick Archaean cratonic keels? Insights from >2.83 Ga detrital diamonds from Tree River, Slave Craton, Canada

  Rory Changleng, Andrea Pezzera, D. Graham Pearson, Richard Stern, Fabrizio Nestola, Thomas Stachel, Jesse Reimink

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• Metasomatic diamond-forming events in the Limpopo Belt deep lithosphere recorded by HDFs in Venitia diamonds

  Yael Kempe, Yaakov Weiss

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• Age and origin of the lithospheric mantle below the Ancient Gneiss Complex, Eswatini

  Kananelo Letete, Karen V. Smit, Sara Burness

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• The River Ranch Kimberlite, Zimbabwe

  Leon R.M. Daniels, Miracle Muusha

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• Diamonds from Knee Lake, Manitoba: A Neoarchean aged unconventional diamond deposit on the northwestern Superior Craton

  Andrea Pezzera, Fabrizio Nesola, Richard A. Stern, Herman Grütter, Long Li, Thomas Stachel, D.Graham Pearson

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• Apatite U-Pb dating of kimberlite: a feasibility study from South China

  Jiawei Zhang, Huan Wang, Defeng He

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• Characterisation of sublithospheric and lithospheric diamond populations from the Candle Lake C29/30 kimberlite, Sask Craton, Canada

  Andrea Pezzera, Fabrizio Nestola, Thomas Stachel, Richard A. Stern, Samantha Perritt, D. Graham Pearson

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• New Ar-Ar age and C-O isotope geochemistry of the Piedade (Aps) carbonatite complex of the Ponta Grossa Arch region, Southern Brazil: petrological implications

  Ruberti Excelso, Rogério Azzone, Celso B. Gomes, Luanna Chmyz, Izaac Cabral Neto, Maria Helena Bezerra Maia de Hollanda, Vladimir Aps, Jorge Bettencourt

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• In-situ U-Pb dating of garnet in diamonds from Venetia, South Africa

  Brendan Hoare, Gary O'Sullivan, David Chew, David van Acken, Eszter Badenszki, Ulrika D'Haenens-Johansson, Evan M. Smith, Jeffrey Harris, Emma Tomlinson

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• An experimental study on the kimberlitic magma evolution during ascent before emplacement

  Zairong Liu, I-Ming Chou

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• Transitional pyroxenitic-lherzolitic xenoliths from Roberts Victor, Kaapvaal craton

  Karen V. Smit, Kaydi O. Govender, Kananelo Letete, Fezeka Dliwako

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• A new machine-learning single-crystal peridotitic garnet geobarometer & geothermometer

  Gary O'Sullivan, Oliver Higgins, Janney, Philip, B.C. Hoare, Emma L. Tomlinson

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• Mantle source characteristics of diamondiferous areas in Brazil revealed from Hf and O isotopes of zircon megacrysts

  Izaac Cabral-Neto, D. Graham Pearson, Excelso Ruberti, Yan Luo, Richard A. Stern, Rogério G. Azzone, Vidyã V. Almeida, Francisco V. Silveira

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• Floating reefs and their relevance for the emplacement of maar-diatreme volcanoes

  Volker Lorenz, Stephan Kurszlaukis

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• Diamond sources of the Juína region, Amazonian craton: textural and mineral chemical characteristics of Kimberley-type pyroclastic kimberlites

  Izaac Cabral-Neto, Excelso Ruberti, D. Graham Pearson, Yan Luo, Rogério G. Azzone, Francisco V. Silveira, Vidyã V. Almeida

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• Determining the origin of fluids in the cratonic lithosphere

  Swetha Venugopal, EmmaL. Tomlinson, Laura Hepburn

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• The Origin of Eclogitic Corundum and Garnet Xenocrysts from the Kareevlei Kaapvaal Lamproite (Group II Kimberlite)

  Anele Joni, G.H. Howarth, C. Harris, P.E. Janney, S. Hashibi, J. Robey

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• A first look at diamonds and their inclusions from the Sequoia Kimberlite Complex, Northwest Territories, Canada

  Luísa De Carvalho, Buddy Doyle, Thomas Stachel, D. Graham Pearson

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• Macle Diamonds: Primary Fluid Inclusion Entrapment Along the Twinning Plane

  William Henry Towbin, Evan M. Smith, Ulrika F.S. D'Haenens-Johansson, Daniel C. Jones

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• Quantifying the melting conditions of Archean cratonic peridotites

  Jarious Kaekane, Brendan C. Hoare, Emma L. Tomlinson

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• Experimental investigation of silica enrichment in Archean cratonic lithosphere

  Caterina Melai, Tony Withers, Daniel J. Frost, Emma L. Tomlinson

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• The effect of volatiles on properties of kimberlite melts

  Ana Anzulovic, Razvan Caracas

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• Understanding diamond-forming fluids and parental lithologies using Fe, Mg, and K isotopes

  Peng Ni, Oded Elazar, Steven B. Shirey, Yaakov Weiss

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• Classifying crust- and mantle-derived garnet from a structural-chemical perspective

  Song Gao, Roberta L. Flemming

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• Evolution of Kimberlite Exploration - Reasons for Renewed Exploration and One "Classic" Example for a Second Look (Part 2)

  Eileen Lyon, Gary Vivian, Chris Hrkac, Darrell Epp, Tom McCandless, Dave Sacco

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• Tales from Diamond Surface Features

  David Phillips

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• Rare natural colored diamonds: diamonds colored by the 480 nm absorption band

  Mei Yan Lai, Matthew F. Hardman, Sally Eaton-Magaña, Christopher M. Breeding, Virginia A. Schwartz, Alan T. Collins

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• Recovering Population Estimates through Expectation Maximization Techniques

  Yuri Kinakin, Gus Fomradas

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• Post-collisional lamprophyres - exploration tools for rare metal deposits

  Thomas Seifert

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• Evolution of Kimberlite Exploration - Advances in Drift Prospecting in Canada’s North (Part 1): Fundamentals and Foundations

  Dave Sacco, Patrick DesRosiers, Chris Hrkac, Tom McCandless, Gary Vivian

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• Evolution of Kimberlite Exploration – Advances in Drift Prospecting in Canada’s North (Part 2): Case Studies and Examples

  Patrick DesRosiers, Dave Sacco, Chris Hrkac, Tom McCandless

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• Evolution of Kimberlite Exploration – Kimberlite Indicator Mineral Dispersion on the Kennady North Project, Southern Slave Craton, NWT

  Tom McCandless, Gary Vivian, Chris Hrkac, David Sacco, Patrick DeRosiers

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• A new global kimberlite geochemistry dataset: the benefits of open and complete data sharing

  Hayden Dalton, Andrea Giuliani, D. Graham Pearson

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• New Geochemical Insights into the Petrogenesis of South Australian Kimberlites

  Hayden Dalton, Andrea Giuliani, Angus Fitzpayne

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• Comparison of Full-Tensor Magnetic Gradiometry with Conventional Magnetic Data: Implications for Kimberlite Exploration

  Janet Morrissey, Yuri Kinakin

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• A global look at cratons and the thermal properties that define their roots

  D. Graham Pearson, K. Kublik, James M. Scott, Andrew Schaeffer

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• The origin of kimberlitic zircon and the search for a “fingerprint” for superdeep diamonds: enhanced classification of source rock using zircon trace element compositions and machine learning

  Matthew F. Hardman, D. Graham Pearson, S. Andrew DuFrane, Izaac Neto, Rogério Azzone, Alexei Rukhlov

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• Evolution of Kimberlite Exploration – A New Look at Kimberlite Indicator Morphology from the Southern Slave Craton, NWT

  Tom McCandless, Gary Vivian, Chris Hrkac, David Sacco

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• A new approach to sampling and evaluating large, low-grade kimberlites at Fort à la Corne, Saskatchewan, Canada

  Gus Fomradas, Andy Davy, Yuri Kinakin, Rayner Murray, Hayley McLean

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• New insights into the age, composition and thermal history of the lower crust

  Roberta L. Rudnick, Francisco E. Apen, Mary F. Ringwood

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• Mid- and Late Cretaceous N American Kimberlite Magmatism: A comprehensive Tectonic model

  Stephen T. Johnston, Wenbo Zhang, Claire Currie, J. Craddock

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• Temporal Changes in Diamond Formation by Subduction Throughout Earth History: Thermal Modeling, Seismology, and Petrology evidence

  Steven B. Shirey, Karen V. Smit, D. Graham Pearson, Michael J. Walter, Thomas Stachel

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• A fresh look at the mantle sources of low-degree mantle-derived melts using K and Ba isotopes

  Oded Elazar, D. Graham Pearson, Frederic Moynier, Yan Hu, Sune G. Nielsen, Julien T Middleton, Maureen Auro, A. Lynton Jaques, Steven B. Shirey

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• A geochronological perspective on the geodynamic models of kimberlite and lamproite magmatism in Kansas

  Isabella Lupini, Pamela Kempton, Andreas Möller, Claudia Adam

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• Secular variation in kimberlite formation: the variable connection to LLSVPs

  Claudia Adam, Pamela D. Kempton, E. Lee

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• Updated Northwest Territories kimberlite compilation

  Barrett Elliott

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• Geology Development and Evaluation of Meya Kimberlite Dyke System, Kono District, Sierra Leone

  Casey Hetman, Grete van Staden, Amy Mailey, Herman Grütter, Kimberley Webb

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• What Inclusions in Diamond Tell Us About the Lithospheric Mantle Beneath Snap Lake Kimberlite Dyke (Northwest Territories, Canada)

  Kelsey Graversen, Thomas Stachel, D. Graham Pearson, Richard A. Stern, Ingrid Chinn

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• Karowe Diamond Mine: Geology and Diamonds of the South Lobe and Implications for Underground Mining

  Kimberley Webb, John Armstrong, Cliff Revering, Thebe Fresh Tlhaodi

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• Evolution of the geological model of Renard 3 Kimberley-type pyroclastic kimberlite over 1,000 metres depth, Quebec, Canada

  Colleen M. Laroulandie

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