Vol. 10 (2012): Vol 10: International Kimberlite Conference, Bangalore

Extended Abstracts

• Diamond-bearing terrigenous rocks: key role in prediction and exploration of buried deposits

  V.N. Ustinov

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• Sub-volcanic development of embryonic kimberlite pipes: evidence from the Lace and Voorspoed Group II kimberlites, South Africa

  G.H. Howarth, E.M.W. Skinner

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• Contrasting peridotite xenolith suites from the Letseng kimberlites: inferences for the Lesotho mantle

  J.B. Dawson, N.P. Lock

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• The alkaline minerals from the mantle xenoliths of kimberlite pipes of Yakutia

  L.N. Pokhilenko, T.A. Alifirova

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• Diamond mining and sustainability at De Beers’ Canadian mines

  J.A. Fowler, E. Biscaye, S.H.A. Metatawabin

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• Evaluation and valuation of alluvial diamond deposits

  T.R. Marshall

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• Economic geology of Renard 3, Quebec, Canada: a diamondiferous, multi-phase pipe infilled with hypabyssal and tuffisitic kimberlite

  C. Muntener, B.H. Scott-Smith

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• Petrology of lamproites from the Nuapada lamproite field, Bastar craton, India

  N. Sahu, T.Patel Gupta, D.B.K. Khuntia, S.S. Thakur, S.K. Das

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• Formation features of the early-Hercynic alkaline-ultrabasic and basic volvanic complexes and diamondiferous criteria of the kimberlites from Zimny Bereg area (north-west of Archangelsk region, Russia)

  V.V. Tretyachenko, A.V. Bovkun, K.V. Garanin, V.K. Garanin, N.G. Tretyachenko

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• A geological model of the Kao kimberlites, Lesotho, based on the petrography of limited samples

  W.M.E. Skinner

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• Diamonds from Capiibary, Paraguay

  C.B. Smith, G.P. Bulanova, J.L.B. Presser

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• MARID-type xenoliths in Proterozoic kimberlites from southern India: implications on mantle metasomatism

  S.C. Patel, S. Ravi, S.S. Thakur

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• Diamond formation in the slab and mantle wedge: examples from the Slave craton

  S. Aulbach, T. Stachel, L.M. Heaman, R.A. Creaser, H.M. Seitz, S.B. Shirey

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• Exploration and discovery of the Chidliak kimberlite province, Baffin Island, Nunavut: Canada’s newest diamond district

  J. Pell, H. Grütter, H. Grenon, S. Dempsey, S. Neilson

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• Kmberlite from central Angola: a case study of exploration findings

  H. Jelsma, U. Krishnan, S. Perritt, R. Preston, F. Winter, L. Lemotlo, G. van der Linde, R. Armstrong, D. Philips, S. Joy, J. Costa, M. Facatino, A. Posser, M. Kumar, C. Wallace, I. Chinn, A. Henning

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• Metasomatism in cratonic mantle root: insight from geochemistry of deformed peridotite xenoliths of Udachnaya pipe

  A.M. Agashev, D. Ionov, N.P. Pokhilenko, A.V. Golovin, E.A. Surgutanova, I.S. Sharygin

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• Lamproites from the eastern margin of the Bhandara craton, Orissa, India: an exploration case study

  K.V. Suryanarayana Rao, C. Kumar, A. Kumar, V. Nandish, R.T. Swamy

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• Peridotitic mantle section beneath V.Grib kimberlite pipe (Arkhangelsk region, Russia): mineralogical composition, P-T conditions, metasomatism

  E.V. Shchukina, N.G. Malkovets, N.N. Golovin, N.P. Pokhilenko

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• Large igneous provinces and kimberlites? Origin of the diamondiferous amon kimberlites, Baffin Island, Arctic Canada

  S. Tappe, G.M. Nowell, S. Kurszlaukis, B.A. Kjarsgaard

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• Petrological inferences for the role of exsolution in upper mantle: evidence from the Yakutian kimberlite xenoliths

  T.A. Alifirova, L.N. Pokhilenko, V.G. Malkovets, W.L. Griffin

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• Typomorphic features of groundmass minerals from diamondiferous kimberlites of Yakutia

  D.A. Yakovlev, S.I. Kostrovitsky, L.F. Suvorova

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• FTIR microscope analysis of diamond and indicator minerals as a new tool in prospecting for diamond deposits

  G.K. Khachatryan, F.V. Kaminsky, N.E. Anashkina

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• Properties of diamonds in xenoliths from kimberlites of Yakutia: implication to their origin and exploration

  Z.V. Spetsius, O.E. Kovalchuck, I.N. Bogush

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• Physical and infrared characteristics of diamonds from behradih kimberlite, Bastar craton, India

  D. Mainkar, T. Gupta, S.C. Patel, B. Lehmann, P. Diwan, F.V. Kaminsky, G.K. Khachatryan

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• Kimberlite indicator minerals in terrigene sediments of lower part of Mackenzie River Basin, NWT, Canada: evidence of new craton with thick lithosphere

  N.P. Pokhilenko, V.P. Afanasiev, J.A. McDonald, M.A. Vavilov, S.S. Kuligin, N.L. Pokhilenko, A.V. Golovin, A.M. Agashev

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• 40Ar/39Ar dating of phlogopite of mantle xenoliths from kimberlite pipes of Yakutia: evidence for deep ancient metasomatism of the Siberian platform

  L.N. Pokhilenko, T.A. Alifirova, D.S. Yudin

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• A multidisciplinary approach to the Attawapiskat kimberlite field, Canada: accelerating the discovery to production pipeline

  N. Januszczak, M.H. Seller, S. Kurszlaukis, C. Murphy, J. Delgaty, S. Tappe, K. Ali, J. Zhu, P. Ellemers

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• Pyrope garnet from the El Kseibat area, Algeria and lithosphere beneath the north-eastern part of the west African craton

  M. Kahoui, F.V. Kaminsky, W.L. Griffin, E. Belousova, Y. Mahdjoub, M. Chabane

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• Nd-Hf isotope systematics of megacrysts from the Mbuji-Mayi kimberlites, D.R.Congo: implications for the composition of the cratonic lithospheric mantle

  M. Pivin, V. Debaille, N. Mattielli, D. Demaiffe

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• Diamonds structural characteristics from different petrochemical types of kimberlites

  G.Y. Kriulina, E.A. Vasiliev, V.K. Garanin, K.V. Garanin

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• The carbonatitic character of kimberlite magma

  M.V. Patterson, D. Francis

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• The way of the diamond placers of south-western Africa came into being

  A.M. Lyukhin

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• Multiple growth events, processes and fluid sources involved in the growth of diamonds from Finsch mine, RSA: a micro-analytical study

  M. Palot, D.G. Pearson, R. Stern, T. Stachel, J.W. Harris

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• Groundmass microcrystalline oxides from the Marsfontein pipe (Republic of South Africa), Catoca, Camachia and others Angolan kimberlite pipes

  V.K. Garanin, S.M. Anashkin, A.V. Bovkun, H. Jelsma, I.I. Shmakov, K.V. Garanin

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• Constraints on composition of possible diamondbearing lithosphere as sampled by the Victor kimberlite

  K.V. Smit, T. Stachel, M. Seller

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• Kimberlite indicator minerals and “laterite”, Canadian arctic

  R. Davies, A.W. Davies

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• Trace element and isotope geochemistry of perovskite from kimberlites of southern Africa

  C. Sarkar, C.D. Storey, C.J. Hawkesworth, R.S.J. Sparks

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• Application of Fe K-edge XANES determinations of Fe3+/ΣFe in garnet to peridotite xenoliths from the Udachnaya kimberlite

  G.M. Yaxley, A.J. Berry, V.S. Kamenetsky, A.B. Woodland, D. Paterson, M.D. de Jonge, D.L. Howard

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• Tectonic relationships between cratonic and ultra-high pressure (UHP) diamond – implications for craton formation and stabilization

  H.H. Helmstaedt

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• Exploration and geology of the Qilalugaq kimberlites, Rae isthmus, Nunavut, Canada

  B.G. Kupsch, J.P. Armstrong

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• Phase relations of eclogite + 4.4% CO2 at 9-21 GPa: implications for diamond formation in the deep mantle

  E.S. Kiseeva, K.D. Litasov, G.M. Yaxley, E. Ohtani, V.S. Kamenetsky

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• The "exceptionally fresh" Udachanaya-east kimberlite: evidence for brine and evaporite contamination

  S.I. Kostrovitsky, M.G. Kopylova, K.N. Egorov, D.A. Yakovlev, T.V. Kalashnikova, G.P. Sandimirova

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• Fluid and magma transfer in subcontinental lithospheric mantle of the Siberian craton and its geochemical evolution

  L.V. Solov’eva, S.I. Kostrovitsky, T.A. Yasnygina

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• High-Mg carbonatitic HDFS, kimberlites and the SCLM

  Y. Weiss, W.L. Griffin, D.R. Bell, O. Navon

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• Isotope heterogeneity from oxygen in rocks of lithosphere mantle

  S.I. Kostrovitsky, M.A. Gornova, L.V. Solovyeva, D.A. Yakovlev

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• The age and origin of the Limpopo (South Africa) subcontinental lithospheric mantle

  Q.H.A. van der Meer, K. Mlaver, L. Reisberg, G.R. Davies

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• Can be parental kimberlite melts alkali-carbonate liquids: results investigations composition melt inclusions in mantle xenoliths from kimberlites

  A.V. Golovin, I.S. Sharygin, A.V. Korsakov, N.P. Pokhilenko

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• Oxygen isotope studies of serpentine in kimberlite

  R.G. Mitchell

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• Mineralogy of magmaclasts and interclast matrices of kimberley-type pyroclastic kimberlites from the Kao, Letseng-la-Terae, Lethlakane and Premier kimberlite pipes in southern Africa

  R.H. Mitchell, B.H. Scott Smith, E.M.W. Skinner

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• Mantle-derived morphologies of diamond: records of diamond-destroying mantle metasomatism

  Z. Zhang, Y. Fedortchouk

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• “Shells” (imprints) of diamond in kimberlite

  V.L. Skvortsova, V.A. Petrovsky, G.Y. Kriulina

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• Origin of diamonds from the Dachine ultramafic, French Guyana

  C.B. Smith, G.P. Bulanova, M.J. Walter, S.C. Kohn, S. Mikhail, L. Gobbo

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• Geology and volcanology of the A418 kimberlite pipe, NWT, Canada

  L.A. Porritt, J.K. Russell, H. McLean, G. Fomradas, D. Eichenberg

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• The contrast in trace element chemistry and volatile composition between fluid inclusions in fibrous and octahedral diamonds

  E.M. Smith, M.G. Kopylova, G.M. Nowell, D.G. Pearson, J. Ryder, V.P. Afanasiev

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• U-Pb geochronology of perovskite and zircon from the Chigicherla kimberlites, Anantapur district, India

  H.S. Grütter, A. Gerdes, L. Marko, L.M. Heaman

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• New 40Ar/39Ar ages for the West Kimberley lamproites and implications for Australian plate geodynamics

  D. Phillips, W. Clarke, A.L. Jaques

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• 40Ar/39Ar analyses of kelyphite: a new approach for dating kimberlites and related rocks

  D. Phillips, A. Giuliani, H. Jelsma, S. Joy

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• Alkali-carbonate fluids in the lithospheric mantle

  A. Giuliani, V.S. Kamenetsky, D. Phillips, B.A. Wyatt, G. Hutchinson

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• Quality control procedures applied to routine electron probe analyses of kimberlite indicator minerals

  D. de Bruin, P. Gräser

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• Melting phase relations in the systems peridotite-H2O-CO2 and eclogite-H2O-CO2 at pressures up to 27 GPa

  K.D. Litasov, A. Shatskiy, E. Ohtani, N.P. Pokhilenko

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• Melting of peridotite and eclogite coexisting with reduced C-O-H fluid at 3-16 GPa: further constraints for redox melting models

  K.D. Litasov, A. Shatskiy, E. Ohtani

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• Halogen and Ar geochemistry of metasomatic mantle xenoliths from the Bultfontein pipe (Kimberley district, South Africa)

  A. Guiliani, M.A. Kendrick, D. Philips

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• Carbonated eclogite at 3.5-5.5 GPa – the effect of the capsule material on solidus temperatures

  E.S. Kiseeva, G.M. Yaxley, V.S. Kamenetsky

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• Benfontein-02 kimberlite, Free State Province, South Africa

  S. Mabolani, R.G. Cawthorn, W.U. Reimold

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• Lu-Hf and Sm-Nd geochronology and geothermobarometry of the lithospheric mantle beneath the Gibeon kimberlite field, Namibia

  T. Luchs, G.P. Brey, A. Gerdes, H.E. Hoefer

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• FTIR features in Argyle, Diavik and Murowa diamonds

  J. Chapman, K. De Corte, J. Van Royen, B. Willems

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• Type IIa diamonds and their enhanced economic significance

  J.J. Gurney, H.H. Helmstaedt

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• The origin and evolution of the lithospheric mantle beneath the Makondi fold belt in Botswana; a comprehensive geochemical study of peridotite xenoliths from the Letlhakane diamond mine

  A.M. Borst, B. Davidheiser, T.J. Meulemans, G.R. Davies

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• Peculiarities of composition of coarse peridotite xenoliths of some kimberlite pipes from Sourth Africa

  E.V. Malygina, N.P. Pokhilenko

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• Rutile and titanite as the minerals for dating kimberlite emplacement age: an example of Amakinskaya and Taezhnaya pipes of Mirny field, Siberia

  A.M. Agashev, Y. Orihashi, A.Y. Rotman, N.P. Pokhilenko, I.V. Serov, A.V. Tolstov

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• Segregation rate and transport mechanism of volatile-bearing melt in the deep mantle

  A. Shatskiy, K.D. Litasov, E. Ohtani

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• Melting phase relations of chlorine-bearing kimberlite at 2.1-6.5 GPa and 900-1500°C

  I.S. Sharygin, K.D. Litasov, A. Shatskiy, A.V. Golovin, E. Ohtani, N.P. Pokhilenko

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• Diagram Ta-Sc – the universal discrimination diagram for geochemical classification of the kimberlitic rocks

  S.M. Sablukov

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• Olivine chemistry of exceptionally young (Holocene) kimberlite of the Igwisi Hills volcano, Tanzania

  I. Buisman, R.S.J. Sparks, R.J. Brown, S. Manya, J. Kavanagh, M.J. Walter

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• New data on the structure of the cubic habit diamonds from the M.V. Lomonosov diamonds deposit (Archangelsk diamondiferous province, Russia)

  G.Y. Kriulina, V.O. Kyazimov, E.A. Vasiliev, O.P. Matveeva

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• Lemphane kimberlite diamond project: petrology update

  H.E. O'Brien, R.G. Spencer

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• Chemical and textural characterisation of non-kimberlitic chromian spinel populations from diamond exploration programmes

  A.I. Macdonald, S. Napier

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• Tthe petrology of AK6, Botswana: implications of volcanic and igneous processes

  R.C. Ogilvie-Harris, M. Field, R.A. Brooker, M.J. Walter, R.S.J. Sparks

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• Zone of anomalous mantle

  R. Davies, A.W. Davies

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• Banded alkremite xenoliths from Nyurbinskaya kimberlite pipes (Nakyn field, Yakutia)

  S.M. Sablukov, L.I. Sablukova, Yu.B. Stegnitsky, M.A. Karpenko

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• Fluid microinclusions in monocrystalline diamonds

  Y. Weiss, I. Kiflawi, W.L. Griffin, O. Navon

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• Green garnets of the “wehrlite” mantle xenoliths from kimberlites: their composition and origin (Newlands dike, South Africa; Nyurbinskaya pipe, Nakyn field, Yakutia)

  L.I. Sablukova, S.M. Sablukov, Yu.B. Stegnitsky, M.A. Karpenko

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• Role of sediment derived carbonatitic melts in orgin of high-K mantle domains

  A. Golubkova, M.W. Schmidt

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• Grospydite xenoliths from Grib pipe kimberlites (Arkhangelsk province, Russia)

  L.I. Sablukova, S.M. Sablukov, E.M. Verichev, A.V. Antonov

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• Polyphase hydrocarbon inclusions in garnet from the Mir pipe (Yakutia, Russia)

  A.V. Bovkun, A.Y. Biller, V.L. Skvortsova, V.K. Garanin

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• The role of redox equilibria during carbon transfer in the mantle and the stability of carbides in the mantle

  M.W. Schmidt, A. Rohrbach, C. Gao, J.A.D. Connolly

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• Sutures in the early Precambrian crust as a factor responsible for localization of diamondiferous kimberlites in the northern East European platform

  A.V. Samsonov, V.V. Tretyachenko, A.A. Nosova, Yu.O. Larionova, E.N. Lepekhina, A.N. Larionov, I.S. Ipatieva

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• Polycrystalline fibrous diamonds from the Diavik diamond mine, Canada

  L. Hunt, T. Stachel, D.G. Pearson, R. Stern, K. Muehlenbachs, H. Mclean, V. Marcheggiani-Croden

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• Kimberlite ascent by assimilation-fueled buoyancy

  J.K. Russell, L.A. Porritt, Y. Lavallée, D. Dingwell

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• Diamond-forming efficiency of chloridesilicate-carbonate melts: the role of chlorides

  A.V. Bobrov, Yu.A. Litvin, L.S. Ismailova

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• Exsolution textures in majoritic garnets from the Mir kimberlite pipe (Yakutia, Russia)

  E.A. Sirotkina, A.V. Bobrov, V.K. Garanin, A.V. Bovkun, B.B. Shkurskii, D.V. Korost

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• Metal films on the face and in the body of diamond crystals from diamondiferous provinces Russian and the world

  G.Yu. Kriulina, A.B. Makeyev

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• Kimberlite-derived harzbugitic diamonds from a >2.7 Ga southern Superior protocraton

  M.G. Kopylova, C. Miller, V.P. Afanasiev, L. Bruce, P. Thurston, J. Ryder

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• The evolution of kimberlite indicator mineral interpretation on the Chidliak project, Baffin Island, Nunavut

  S. Neilson, H. Grütter, J. Pell, H. Grenon

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• Kimberlite ascent: chronicles of olivine

  R.C. Brett, J.K. Russell, G. Andrews

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• Searching for new diamond deposits in western Liberia

  D.B. Dyakonov, V.K. Garanin, K.V. Garanin, E.B. Bushueva, M.A. Enalieva, E.S. Vvedensky

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• The Victor diamond mine, northern Ontario, Canada: successful mining of a reliable resource

  B.D. Wood, B. Rameseder, B.H. Scott Smith

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• Kimberlites of the Coronation Gulf field, northern Slave craton, Nunavut Canada

  J.P. Armstrong, C.E. Fitzgerald, B.A. Kjarsgaard, L. Heaman, S. Tappe

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• Djerfisherite in kimberlite-hosted mantle xenoliths: textural features, composition and origin

  I.S. Sharygin, A.V. Golovin, N.P. Pokhilenko

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• Late metasomatic addition of garnet to the SCLM: Os-isotope evidence

  V.G. Malkovets, W.L. Griffin, N.J. Pearson, D.I. Rezvukhin, S.Y. O'Reilly, N.P. Pokhilenko, V.K. Garanin, Z.V. Spetsius, K.D. Litasov

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• “Tables” vs. “benches”: trace elements in fibrous diamonds

  O. Navon, W.L. Griffin, Y. Weiss

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• The IR absorption spectrum of water in microinclusions-bearing diamonds

  Y. Weiss, I. Kiflawi, O. Navon

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• Geochemistry and microstructure of diamondites

  E.V. Rubanov, W.L. Griffin, S. Piazolo, S.Y. O'Reilly, T. Stachel, R. Stern, A.C. Birnie

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• Mapping of mineral phases around diamonds in eclogite xenoliths from the Udachnaya kimberlite pipe (Yakutia): remarks to their metasomatic genesis

  Z.V. Spetsius, V.S. Kamenetsky

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• Mineral chemistry of the peridotites from the Naga ophiolite belt, northeastern India and their petrological significance

  B. Maibam

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• Diamond exploration and prospectivity of the northern territory of Australia

  M.T. Hutchison

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• Multi-phase, sub-micrometer silicate, sulfide & fluid inclusions in diamonds: expressions of metasomatism evidenced in peridotites and eclogites

  A.M. Logvinova, R. Wirth, N.V. Sobolev, L.A. Taylor

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• Age constraints on ultra-deep mantle petrology shown by Juina diamonds

  M.T. Hutchison, C.W. Dale, G.M. Nowell, F.A. Laiginhas, D.G. Pearson

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• Element diffusion in composite xenoliths from alkaline basalts (West Sangilen, Russia)

  A.A. Gibsher, V.G. Malkovets, D.V. Kuzmin, W.L. Griffin, S.Y. O'Reilly

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• Diamonds from Juina, Brazil, track the evolution of a Mesozoic subducted slab

  B. Harte, S. Richardson

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• Mineral associations in diamonds from the lowermost upper mantle and uppermost lower mantle

  B. Harte, S. Richardson

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• Geochemistry and geochronology of Tanzanian kimberlites

  R. Chesler, J. Hergt, J. Woodhead, D. Phillips

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• Diamond survival in kimberlite magma: the importance of fluid

  Y. Fedortchouk, L. Hilchie, E. McIsaac

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• U-Pb geochronology, Sr- and Nd-isotope compositions of groundmass perovskite from the Chidliak and Qilaq kimberlites, Baffin Island, Nunavut

  L.M. Heaman, H.D. Grütter, J. Pell, P. Holmes, H. Grenon

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• Heterogeneous mantle beneath the Lunda area in Angola: Nd isotopic evidence

  S.E. Robles-Cruz, S. Galía, M. Escayola, J.C. Melgarejo

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• Fe-rich ilmenite and kimberlite melt interaction, experimental researches

  E.I. Nikolenko, V.P. Afanasiev, A.I. Chepurov

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• Juina-5 kimberlite (Brazil): a source of unique lower mantle diamonds

  D.P. Araújo, G.P. Bulanova, M.J. Walter, S.C. Kohn, C.B. Smith, J.C. Gaspar, J. Wang

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• Sodium majorite and its pyrope solid solutions: high pressure experiment and crystal-chemical implications

  A.M. Dymshits, L. Bindi, A.V. Bobrov, K.D. Litasov, A.F. Shatskiy, E. Ohtani, Yu.A. Litvin

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• Re-Os isotope constraints on the ages of diamonds from Mwadui, Tanzania

  D.F. Wiggers de Vries, J.W. Harris, D.G. Pearson, G.R. Davies

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• Multi-stage metasomatism of a Roberts Victor eclogite linked to the formation and destruction of diamond

  A.J.V. Riches, D.G. Pearson, R.A. Stern, R.B. Ickert, B.A. Kjarsgaard, S.E. Jackson, A. Ishikawa

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• Metasomatism of a Roberts Victor eclogite linked to the formation and destruction of diamond

  A.J.V. Riches, D.G. Pearson, R.A. Stern, R.B. Ickert, S.E. Jackson, A. Ishikawa, B.A. Kjarsgaard

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• Occurrence of garnets with eclogitic and lherzolitic compositions in garnet lherzolite xenolith from the Canastra-01 kimberlite, Brazil

  M.M. Dalla Costa, R.V. Santos, D.P. Araújo, J.C. Gaspar

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• Sulfide inclusion Re-Os ages and carbon, nitrogen of diamonds from the Murowa kimberlites: implications for Zimbabwe craton evolution

  E. Gaillu, S.B. Shrey, G.P. Bulanova, B. Marks, C.B. Smith, J. Wang, S.C. Kohn, M.J. Walter

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• Diamonds from Sese and Murowa kimberlites (Zimbabwe) – evidence of extreme peridotitic lithosphere depletion and Ti-REE metasomatism

  G.P. Bulanova, A. Marks, C.B. Smith, S.C. Kohn, M.J. Walter, E. Gaillou, S.B. Shirey, R. Trautman, B.J. Griffin

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• Evidence from inclusions in diamonds for 3 Ga onset of the supercontinent cycle: implications for geodynamics and diamond formation

  S.B. Shirey, S.H. Richardson

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• Utilization of olivine macrocryst grain size and abundance data as a proxy for diamond size and grade in pyroclastic deposits of the Orion South kimberlite, Fort à la Corne, Saskatchewan, Canada

  S. Harvey, G. Read, B. DesGagnes, M. Shimell, J. Danoczi, B. van Breugel, L. Fourie, A. Stilling

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• Exploration for concealed kimberlites in Botswana with trace element soil geochemistry

  L.R.M. Daniels, D. de Bruin, J.C. Smuts

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• Mineral chemistry of mantle xenoliths from kamafugite diatremes in the Goias alkaline province, Brazil

  C.V. Kafino, J.A. Brod, T.C.J. Brod, N.M. Freitas

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• Kimberlite terminology and classification

  B.H. Scott Smith, T.E. Nowicki, J.K. Russell, K.J. Webb, R.H. Mitchell, C.M. Hetmane, M. Harder, E.M.W. Skinner, J.V. Robey

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• Refertilisation grade estimation of lithosphere roots by the chemical composition of garnets from Siberian kimberlites

  N.S. Tychkov, A.M. Agashev, N.P. Pokhilenko

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• Internal structure and color of the natural plastically deformed diamonds from the Internatsionalnaya kimberlite pipe (Yakutia)

  E.N. Fedorova, A.M. Logvinova, R.I. Mashkovtsev, N.V. Sobolev

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• Phoscorites from the Salitre alkaline complex, Brazil: origin and petrogenetic implications

  E.S.R. Barbosa, J.A. Brod, T.C. Junqueira-Brod, P.F.O. Cordeiro, R.V. Santos, E.L. Dantas

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• An updated geological model of the Misery kimberlite complex, Ekati mine, Northwest Territories, Canada

  K.J. Webb, C.M. Hetman, T.E. Nowicki, S. Harrison, J. Carlson, S. Parson, J.L. Paul

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• Experimental study of the role of water in the uppermost mantle

  A. Rosenthal, D.H. Green, I. Kovács, W.O. Hibberson, G.M. Yaxley, F. Brink

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• Mantle structure beneath Udachnaya pipe reconstructed by fresh mantle xenoliths from brown breccia

  I.V. Ashchepkov, T. Ntaflos, L.N. Pokhilenko, D.A. Ionov, N.V. Vladykin, S.S. Kuligin, S.I. Mityukhin, S.V. Palessky

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• Mantle lithosphere beneath Wyoming based on Sloan and Kelsey lake – I kimberlite xenocrysts

  I.V. Ashchepkov, H. Downes, R. Mitchell, N.V. Vladykin, S.V. Palessky

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• Oxide mineral inclusions in pyropes from the Internationalnaya kimberlite pipe, Yakutia

  D.I. Rezvukhin, V.G. Malkovets, A.A. Gibsher, D.V. Kuzmin, W.L. Griffin, N.P. Pokhilenko, S.Y. O'Reilly

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• Geology and evaluation of the K2 kimberlite, Koidu mine, Sierra Leone, West Africa

  M. Harder, T.E. Nowicki, C.M. Hetman, L. Freeman, B. Abedu

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• Jericho eclogite formation revealed by diamond inclusions: oceanic origin without crustal signature?

  K.A. Smart, T. Chacko, T. Stachel, S. Tappe, K. Muehlenbachs, R.B. Ickert, R.A. Stern

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• Eclogitic and peridotitic diamond formation (Kimberley Pool kimberlites, South Africa) as evidenced from C-, N- stable isotope: a main mantle-derived source

  P. Cartigny, J.W. Harris

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• Crystallographic relationships between diamond and its olivine inclusions

  F. Nestola, P. Nimis, J.W. Harris

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• The Brazilian kimberlite-kamafugite association: a new and improved geochronological and geochemical investigation

  M. Felgate, D. Phillips, J. Hergt, J. Woodhead

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• The effect of metamorphic annealing and beta-irradiation on optical properties of Type IaA diamonds

  A.P. Yelisseyev, V.P. Afanasiev, M.G. Kopylova, T.A. Bulbak

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• Factors controlling the internal facies architecture of kimberlite pipes

  S. Kurszlaukis, A. Fulop

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• Physical volcanology, geomorphology, and cosmogenic 3He dating of the youngest kimberlite volcanoes on Earth (the Holocene Igwisi Hills volcanoes, Tanzania)

  R.J. Brown, S. Manya, I. Buisman, R.S.J. Sparks, M. Field, F.M. Stuart, G. Fontana

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• Geology and evaluation of kimberlite dykes at Koidu, Sierra Leone

  S. Moss, T. Nowicki, C. Hetman, L. Freeman, B. Abedu

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• How structure and stress influence the location of kimberlite

  W. Barnett, H. Jelsma, M. Watkeys, L. Freeman

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• Kimberlite pipe models: significance for exploration

  B.A. Kjarsgaard

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• Origin and evolution of cratonic roots

  D.G. Pearson, K.A. Mather, A. Ishikawa, B.A. Kjarsgaard

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• Application of weak leaches in kimberlite exploration

  H.A.F. de Souza, M.A.F. Fedikow, J. Ryder, N. Turner, M. Halliday

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• Geology of the K1 and K2 kimberlite pipes at Murowa, Zimbabwe

  S. Moss, K. Webb, C. Hetman, A. Manyumbu, C. Muchechetere

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• Petrogenesis and geochemical signatures of olivine pyroxenite xenoliths from Ivory Coast diamondiferous Cretaceous kimberlites (West-Africa craton)

  M.E. Allialy, J.M. Batumike, S.C. Djro, Y. Coulibaly, A.N. Kouamelan, Y.B. Daouda

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• Diamonds from the São Francisco and Amazon cratons, Brazil

  D.P. Araújo, F.V. Silveira, R.K. Weska, F. Rachid, F.E.B. Neto, T. Ireland, P. Holden, I. Gobbo

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• The kimberlite Juina-5, Brazil: textural features and xenocryst chemistry

  D.P. Araújo, R.K. Weska, R.S. Correa, L.V. Valadão, N.T. Kuberek, L. Gobbo

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• Mineral chemistry of garnets and ilmenites of the Pepper-1 and Cosmos-3 intrusions, Espigão d’oeste, Rondônia, Brazil

  R.K. Weska, J.A. Brod, E.L. Dantas, D.P. Araújo

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• Abrasion of diamond: an experimental study and field evidence

  V.P. Afanasiev, N.P. Pokhilenko

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• U-Pb and Lu-Hf isotopic systems in zircons from some kimberlites of the Siberian platform and from Ebeliakh alluvial deposit: age and geochemic peculiarities of the source rocks

  K.I. Lokhov, L.I. Lukyanova, E.N. Lepekhina, I.N. Kapitonov, S.P. Shokalsky, S.S. Shevchenko, A.V. Antonov, S.A. Sergeev

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• Emplacement of the Snap Lake kimberlite intrusion, NW Territories, Arctic Canada

  T.M. Gernon, R.C. Ogilvie Harris, R.S.J. Sparks, M. Field

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• U-Pb and Lu-Hf isotopic systems in zircons and Hf-Nd isotopic systematization of the Kimozero kimberlites (Karelia)

  K.I. Lokhov, E.N. Lepekhina, I.N. Kapitonov, Yu.S. Polekhovsky, E.S. Bogomolov, S.A. Sergeev

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• Cr-diopside and Cr-pyrope xenocryst thermobarometry revisited: applications to lithosphere studies and diamond exploration

  B.A. Kjarsgaard, K. Mather, D.G. Pearson, S. Jackson, D. Crabtree, S. Creighton

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• Combined trace element Sm-Nd, Lu-Hf-and Re-Os studies constrain the age, origin and the development of the Kaapvaal subcratonic mantle

  G.P. Brey, T. Luchs, Q. Shu, M. Lazarov, H. Becker

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• The geology and geochemistry of the Wadagera kimberlite and the characteristics of the underlying subcontinental lithospheric mantle, Dharwar craton, India

  M. Lynn, S. Joy, R. Preston

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• The Sr-isotope compositions of clinopyroxene megacrysts determined by ICP-MS-LA from localities across the Kaapvaal craton through the ages

  D. de Bruin, E. Barton, A. Simoneti

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• Mineralogy and petrology of the Salitre I phoscorite-carbonatite-alkaline complex, Brazil

  E.S.R. Barbosa, J.A. Brod, T.C. Junqueira-Brod, P.F.O. Cordeiro, R.V. Santos, E.L. Dantas

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• Diamante Brasil project

  F.V. Silveira, R.S. Britto, L. Matos, D.P. Araujo

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• An experimental investigation of phase relations in kimberlite melts

  R.C. Ogilvie-Harris, R.A. Brooker, M.J. Walter, R.S.J. Sparks

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• Diamondiferous megacrystal garnet and orthopyroxene from Liqhobong, Lesotho

  H.E. O'Brien, A.C. Birnie, R.G. Spencer

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• Seitaperä Group II kimberlite/olivine lamproite: large 1200 Ma diamondiferous pipe in Kuhmo, eastern Finland

  W.K. McNulty, H.E. O'Brien

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• Two distinct kimberlite types at the Churchill diamond project

  P. Stand, A. Banas, J. Burgess, M. Baungartner

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• Lithospheric structure beneath the Cretaceous Orapa kimberlite field, Botswana: 4D lithosphere imaging using garnet indicator mineral chemistry

  R.F. Preston, S.H. Perritt, M.H. Seller, B.A. Wyatt

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• Tuffisitic kimberlite from eastern Dharwar crfaton, Undraldoddi area, Raichur district, Karnataka, India

  J.N. Das, M.M. Korkoppa, Fareeduddin, S. Shivanna, J.K. Srivastava, N.L. Gera

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• Petrology of P-5 and P-13 kimberlite from Lattavaram kimberlite cluster, Wajrakarur kimberlite field, Andhra Pradesh, India

  G. Kaur, M. Korkoppa, Fareeduddin

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• Clinopyroxene macrocrysts in Proterozoic kimberlites from southern India

  K.S. Bhaskara Rao, S.C. Patel, S. Ravi, J. Akhtar

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• Ilmenite macrocrysts in Proterozoic kimberlites from southern India

  S.S. Nayak, S. Ravi, S.C. Patel, J. Akhtar

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• Diamonds from the eastern Dharwar craton, India: their physical and infrared characteristics

  S. Ravi, M.V. Sufija, S.C. Patel, T. Gupta, M. Sridhar, F.V. Kaminsky, G.K. Khachatryan, S.V. Netravali

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• Integration of geophysical and geological data of kimberlites in Narayanapet – Maddur field, Andhra Pradesh, India

  T. Vani, V. Naga Lakshmi, M.V. Ramakrishnarao, G. Randy Keller, K.V. Subbarao

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• The origin and modification of the sub continental lithospheric mantle of Botswana: constraints from peridotite xentoliths of the Orapa mine

  T.J. Meulemans, A.M. Borst, B. Davidheiser, G.R. Davies

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• Origin of Archean cratons by diapiric ascent of foundered shallow residues

  R.L. Rudnick, C. Herzberg

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• Seismic anisotropy and mantle structure of the Rae craton, central Canada, from joint interpretation of sks splitting and receiver functions

  D.B. Snyder, R.G. Berman, J.-M. Kendall, M. Sanborn-Barrie

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• Diamond production and discoveries over the last fifteen years

  A.J.A. Janse

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• Petrology, bulk-rock geochemistry, indicator mineral composition and zircon U-Pb geochronology of the end-Cretaceous diamondiferous Manipur orangeites, Bastar craton, central India

  N.V. Chalapathi Rao, B. Lehmann, E. Belousova, D. Frei, D. Mainkar

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• Reconnaissance Re-Os isotope study of Indian kimberlites and lamproites: implication for their mantle source regions

  N.V. Chalapathi Rao, R.A. Creaser, B. Lehmann

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• Evolution of the early Cretaceous alkaline Jasra complex, Shillong plateau, northeastern India

  R.K. Srivastava, L. Melluso, C.M. Petrone, V. Guarino, A.K. Sinha

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• PGE geochemistry of diamondiferous and non-diamonidferous kimberlites from eastern Dharwar craton, southern India: implication for understanding the nature of mantle below Dharwar

  P. Roy, B. Vysetti

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• Zircon U-Th-Pb-He double-dating of north Australian diamond fields: Ellendale (WA), Seppelt (WA) and Merlin (NT)

  B.I.A. McInnes, N.J. Evans, F. Jourdan, B.J. Mcdonald, M. Danišík, J.D. Gorter, C. Mayers

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• Palaeoproterozoic ultramafic lamprophyres and associated carbonatites from the Mahakoshal supracrustal belt, central India: evidence for a carbonate-rich metasomatised mantle

  R.K. Srivastava, G.C. Gautam

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• The age and localization of kimberlite magmatism in the Yakutian kimberlite province – constraints from isotope geochronology

  A.P. Smelov, A.I. Zaitsev

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• Dynamics of kimberlite magma ascent, intrusion and eruption

  R.S.J. Sparks, I. Buisman, R. Brooker, R.J. Brown, M. Field, T. Gernon, J. Kavanagh, R. Olgivie-Harris, J.C. Schumacher

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• Use of indicator minerals in diamond exploration: a comparison between barren and fertile kimberlites in Angola

  M. Castillo-Oliver, S. Galí, A.O. Gonçalves, J.C. Melgarejo

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• The origin of pelletal lapilli in explosive kimberlite eruptions

  T.M. Gernon, R.J. Brown, M. Tail, T.K. Hincks

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