Vol. 11 (2017): Vol 11: International Kimberlite Conference, Gaborone

Extended Abstracts

• Catoca kimberlite pipe: Diatreme/crater transition and dynamics of the crater sedimentation

  V. Perov, J.T. Felix, F. João

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• The geology of the Liqhobong Main Pipe kimberlite

  M. Rapopo, P. Sobie, P. Bosm

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• The petrology and mineralogy of the kimberlite blow in Letšengla-Terae: implication for its parental magma composition

  N. Stamm, M.W. Schmidt

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• The life cycle of diamondiferous cratons – a leitmotif with infinite regional variations

  H.H. Helmstaedt

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• Redox state of Archean kyanite/corundum eclogites and garnet pyroxenites from Bellsbank, South Africa

  H.E. Höefer, G.P. Brey, Q. Shu, C.R. Heckel, P. Vasilyev

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• Construction and destruction of some North American cratons

  D. Snyder, G. Humphreys, D.G. Pearson

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• Stable isotope data and FTIR analyses of diamonds from Orapa mine: a clear subduction signature

  I.L. Chinn, S.H. Perritt, J. Stiefenhofer, R.A. Stern

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• Mineralogy, geochemistry, and petrogenesis of Paleoproterozoic alkaline magmas in the Yilgarn craton, Western Australia

  E. Choi, M. Fiorentini, A. Giuliani, A. Kemp, F. Pirajno, S. Foley

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• Relation between micro- and macro-diamonds: Myth, myopia or both?

  S.E. Haggerty

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• The Victor diamond mine (Superior craton, Canada) – a new paradigm for exploration in unconventional settings

  T. Stachel, A. Banas, S. Aulbach, K.V. Smit, P. Wescott, I.L. Chinn, D. Fisher, J. Kong

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• Innovative kimberlite dike mining technologies

  S. Schwank, L. Roesler

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• Evidence for a > 200 km thick diamond-bearing root beneath the Central Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories, Canada? Diamond indicator mineral geochemistry from the Horn Plateau and Trout Lake regions

  S.P. Poitras, D.G. Pearson, T. Stachel, S. Cairns

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• Origin of coarse-granular and equigranular eclogites from V. Grib kimberlite pipe, Arkhangelsk region, NW Russia

  E.V. Ehchukina, A.M. Agashev, N.G. Soloshenko, M.V. Streletskaya, D.A. Zedgenizov, V.S. Shchukin, N.P. Pokhilenko

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• DiaMap: new applications for processing IR spectra of fluid-rich diamonds and mapping diamonds containing isolated nitrogen (Type Ib) and boron (Type IIb)

  D. Howell, Y. Weiss, K.V. Smit, L. Loudin, F. Nestola

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• The Liqhobong kimberlite cluster: a perspective on the distinct geology, emplacement, dilution and diamond grades for each intrusion

  M. Rapopo, P. Sobie

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• Geochronology and mantle source characteristics of kimberlites and related rocks from the Rae craton, Melville Peninsula, Nunavut, Canada

  C. Sarkar, B.A. Kjarsgaard, D.G. Pearson, L.M. Heaman, J.P. Armstrong

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• Ages of mantle metasomatism from U-Th-He systematics of diamond-forming C-O-H fluids

  Y. Weiss, C. Class, S.L. Goldstein, G. Winckler

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• Thermo-chemical conditions of Mesozoic metasomatism at the southwestern Kaapvaal SCLM

  Y. Weiss, O. Navon, S.L. Goldstein, J.W. Harris

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• 50 myr kimberlite magmatism in the Fort à la Corne field, Sask craton, recorded by zircon megacrysts

  Q. Shu, D.G. Pearson, B.A. Kjarsgaard, G. Read

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• Multiple phases of mantle metasomatism revealed by X-ray CT scanning of Southern African diamondiferous eclogites

  J.J. Gurney, R.L. Kahle, B. Khale, S.H. Sichardson, A. du Plessis

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• Monticellite in Group-I kimberlites: implications for evolution of parental melts and post-emplacement CO2 degassing

  A. Abersteiner, V.S. Kamenetsky, D.G. Pearson, M. Kamenetsky, K. Goemann, K. Ehrig

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• Formation of unusual yellow Orapa diamonds

  S. Timmerman, I.L. Chinn, D. Fisher, G.R. Davies

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• Relation between fluid end-members and noble gases in South African diamonds

  S. Timmerman, M. Honda, D. Phillips, A.L. Jaques, J.W. Harris

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• The Walgidee Hills zoned lamproite intrusion, West Kimberley Province, Western Australia

  A.L. Jaques

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• New insights into volatile-rich mantle metasomatism at the Bultfontein diamond mine, Kimberley, South Africa

  C.G. Jackson, S.A. Gibson

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• Melting of hydrous-carbonated eclogite at 4-6 GPa and 900-1200°C: implications for the sources of diamond-forming fluids

  O. Elazar, R. Kessel, O. Navon

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• Conodont geothermometry in pyroclastic kimberlite: constraints on emplacement temperatures and cooling histories

  J. Pell, J.K. Russell, S. Zhang

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• Chalcophile elements in the mantle

  A.T. Greaney, R.L. Rudnick

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• A tale of two pipes: using whole rock geochemistry to see through alteration and contamination at the CH-6 & CH-7 kimberlites, Chidliak kimberlite province, Baffin Island, Nunavut

  J. Pell, H.S. Grütter, N. Williams

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• Ultramafic lamprophyre from the Wajrakarur kimberlite field of Southern India and its petrogenetic significance

  A. Dongre, F. Viljoen, M. Malandkar, P. le Roex

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• Cr-rich megacrysts of clinopyroxene and garnet from Lac de Gras Kimberlites, Slave craton, Canada – implications for the origin of clinopyroxene and garnet in cratonic peridotites

  Y. Bussweiler, D.G. Pearson, T. Stachel, B.A. Kjarsgaard

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• Evolution of calcite-bearing Kimberlites by melt-rock reaction – evidence from polymineralic inclusions within clinopyroxene and garnet megacrysts from Lac de Gras kimberlites, Canada

  Y. Bussweiler, R.S. Stone, D.G. Pearson, B.W. Luth, T. Stachel, B.A. Kjarsgaard, A. Menzies

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• Provenance history of detrital diamond deposits, west coast of Namaqualand, South Africa

  D. Phillips, J.W. Harris, M.C.J. de Wit

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• A comparison of geochronology methods applied to kimberlites and related rocks from the Karelian craton, Finland

  D. Phillips, D. Zhong, E.L. Matchan, R. Maas, H. Farr, H. O'Brien, A. Giuliani

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• New constraints on the origins of MARID and PIC rocks based on mineral and bulk-rock geochemical data: omplications for mantle metasomatism and alkaline magmatism

  A. Fitzpayne, A. Giuliani, J. Hergt, D. Phillips, P. Janney

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• Multiple metasomatic events recorded in MARID xenoliths

  A. Fitzpayne, A. Giuliani, D. Phillips, J. Hergt, J. Farquhar, R.N. Drysdale

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• New insights into volcanic processes and diamond grades from deep mining at Argyle

  M.J. Rayner, S.W. Moss, A.J. Jaques, V. Lorenz, G.L. Boxer, C.B. Smith, K. Webb

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• Diamond exploration and prospectivity of Western Australia

  M.T. Hutchinson

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• The suitability of micro-diamonds for local (blocked) resource estimation – opportunities and challenges

  J. Stiefenhofer, M.L. Thurston, D.E. Bush

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• Mantle composition, age, and geotherm beneath the Darby kimberlite field, west central Rae craton

  G.A. Harris, D.G. Pearson, J. Liu, M.F. Hardman, D. Kelsch

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• Oxidation state of majoritic inclusions in diamond

  E.S. Kiseeva, D.M. Vasiukov, B.J. Wood, T. Stachel, C.A. McCammon, A. Chumakov, J.W. Harris, L.S. Dubrovinsky

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• Age of the lithospheric mantle beneath the Karowe diamond mine

  M. Wudrick, D.G. Pearson, T. Stachel, J. Armstrong, S.J. Woodland, T. Motsamai

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• Primitive melt composition of the Bultfontein kimberlite (South Africa)

  A. Soltys, A. Giuliani, D. Phillips

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• Apatite from the Kimberley kimberlites (South Africa): petrography and mineral chemistry

  A. Soltys, A. Giuliani, D. Phillips

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• Significance of halogens (F, Cl) in kimberlite melts: insights from mineralogy and melt inclusions in the Roger pipe (Ekati, Canada)

  A. Abersteiner, V.S. Kamenetsky, D.G. Pearson, M. Kamenetsky, K. Goemann, K. Ehrig

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• Punctuated, long-lived emplacement history of kimberlites from the Renard cluster, Superior Province, Canada indicated by new high precision U-Pb groundmass perovskite dating

  I.M. Ranger, L.M. Heaman, D.G. Pearson, C. Laroulandie, I. Lépine, V. Zhuk

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• IaB diamond and its geological implications

  T. Gu, W. Wang

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• The Nxaunxau kimberlites of northwest Botswana

  M.C.J. de Wit, R.T. Hiyoveni, M. Kahari, J. Bruchs

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• Geochemistry of eclogite xenoliths from kimberlite pipe Udachnaya: section of Archean oceanic crust sampled?

  A.M. Agashev, L.N. Pokhilenko, N.P. Pokhilenko

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• Geochemistry of Mirny field kimberlites, Siberia

  A.M. Agashev, S. Nakai, I.V. Serov, A.V. Tolstov, K.V. Garanin, O.E. Kovalchuk

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• 3-D geological model of the BK16 kimberlite pipe located within the Orapa kimberlite field (OKF) in Botswana

  M.C.J. de Wit, K. Macdonald, A.B. Jeffcoate, R.T. Hiyoveni, I. Martinez, J. Bruchs

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• Mineralogy of the baotite-bearing Gundrapalli lamproite, Nalgonda district, Telangana, India

  G. Kaur, R.H. Mitchell

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• Discrete Ti-Al±Ca metasomatism at ~53 kbar in chromite-garnet peridotites from Newlands kimberlite, South Africa

  H.S. Grütter, A.H. Menzies

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• Tracing kimberlitic indicators to their kimberlite source at Chidliak, Nunavut, Canada, re-visited: the unexpected accuracy of a simplified Mahalanobis-distance approach

  H.S. Grütter, C.E. Fitzgerald, J.A. Pell

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• Type IIb diamonds originate from the sublithospheric mantle

  E.A. Smith, W. Wang

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• Petrography and geochronology of the Nxau Nxau kimberlites, north-west Botswana

  H. Farr, D. Phillips, M.C.J. de Wit

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• Tracing mantle metasomatism using combined stable (S, O, N) and radiogenic (Sr, Nd, Hf, Pb) isotope geochemistry: case studies from mantle xenoliths of the Kimberley kimberlites

  A. Giuliani, D. Phillips, R. Maas, J.D. Woodhead, C. Harris, M. Fiorentini, J. Farquar, E. Thomassot, C. Cheng, A. Fitzpayne

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• Petrogenetic evidence and FTIR constraints on the origin of diamonds in xenoliths from Yubileynaya and Komsomolskaya pipes, Yakutia

  Z.V. Spetsious, I.N. Bogush, W.L. Griffin, S.Y. O'Reilly, A.S. Ivanov

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• Impact–cosmic–metasomatic origin of microdiamonds from Kumdy–Kol deposit, Kokchetav Massiv, N. Kazakhstan

  L.I. Tretiakova, A.M. Lyukhin

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• History of natural diamond formation based on defect characteristics detected by spectroscopic methods

  L.I. Tretiakova, A.M. Lyukhin

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• Three phases of diamond growth spanning >2.0 Ga beneath Letlhakane established by Re-Os and Sm-Nd systematics of individual eclogitic sulphide, garnet and clinopyroxene inclusions

  M.U. Gress, D.G. Pearson, S. Timmerman, I.L. Chinn, J.M. Koornneef, G.R. Davies

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• Variation in diamond growth events recorded in Botswanan diamonds

  M.U. Gress, S. Timmerman, Q. van den Heuvel, E. Schulten, I.L. Chinn, J.M. Koornneef, G.R. Davies

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• Genesis of diamond inclusions: an integrated cathodoluminescence (CL) and electron backscatter defraction (EBSD) study on eclogitic and peridotitic inclusions and their diamond host

  Q. van den Heuvel, M.U. Gress, S. Matveev, M.R. Drury, I.L. Chinn, J.M. Koornneef, G.R. Davies

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• Robust new statistical approaches to the discrimination of mantle- and crust-derived low-Cr garnets using major and trace element data

  M.F. Hardman, D.G. Pearson, T. Stachel, R.J. Sweeney

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• Microbial response to the presence of buried kimberlite pipes in the Attawapiskat region, northern Ontario; bacteria-kimberlite interactions

  L. Donkervoort, S. Hamilton, D. Sutherland, G. Southam

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• The genesis and evolution of subcontinental lithospheric mantle beneath Botswana and N. South Africa

  G.R. Davies, M. van der Meer, A.M. Borst, B. Davidheiser, T.J. Meulemans, S. de Jong, C.S. Nooitgedacht, C.M. de Heij

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• Melt evolution of the Finsch orangeite, South Africa

  H. Farr, A. Giuliani, D. Phillips

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• Oxygen isotopes of garnets in diamondiferous eclogites from the Udachnaya pipe, Yakutia: evidence for their origin

  Z.V. Spetsious, L.A. Taylor, J.W. Valley, M.J. Spicuzza, W.L. Griffin, A.S. Ivanov

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• Ontario’s newest kimberlite cluster – the Pagwachuan cluster

  J. Delgaty, A. Fulop, M. Seller, M. Hartley, L. Zayonce, N. Januszczak, S. Kurszlaukis

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• Insights into the petrogenesis of the West Kimberley lamproites from trace elements in olivine

  A.L. Jaques, S.F. Foley

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• Features of apatite in kimberlites from Ekati diamond mine and Snap Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada: modelling of kimberlite composition

  R. Milligan, Y. Fedortchouk, P.X. Normandeau, A. Fulop, M. Robertson

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• A tale of three lamproites, their diamonds and settings – Bunder, Majhgawan and Argyle

  C.B. Smith, G. Bulanova, V. Meenakshisundaram, L. Jaques

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• Kimberlite emplacement and mantle sampling through time at A154N kimberlite volcano, Diavik diamond mine

  S. Moss, A. Kobussen, W. Powell, K. Pollack, J. Cutts

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• Natural diamond growth conditions recorded by their internal structures

  G.P. Bulanova, C.B. Smith, S.C. Kohn, L. Speich

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• The nitrogen budget of subducted crust

  A.D. Burnham, S. Mikhail, G.P. Bulanova, C.B. Smith

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• The mantle of Scotland viewed through the Glen Gollaidh aillikite

  M.T. Hutchinson, J.W. Hughes, J.W. Faithfull

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• Geology of the Snap Lake kimberlite dyke, Northwest Territories, Canada, and its metasomatic interaction with granite

  A. Fulop, M. Kopylova, P. Ellemers, C. Squibb

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• Origin of mantle-derived carbonate nodules from the Bultfontein kimberlite

  G.H. Howarth, A. Moore, C. Harris

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• Solid molecular nitrogen (N2) inclusions in Juina diamonds: exsolution at the base of the transition zone

  O. Navon, R. Wirth, C. Schmidt, B.M. Jablon, A. Schreiber, S. Emmanuel

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• Diamond brecciation and annealing accompanying major metasomatism in eclogite xenoliths from the Sask craton, Canada

  J. Czas, T. Stachel, D.G. Pearson, R. Stern, G.H. Read

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• Contrasting thermal structure, melt depletion and metasomatism of mantle lithosphere beneath two Proterozoic terranes eest of the Kaapvaal craton, southern Africa

  E.T. Shiimi, P.E. Janney

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• A new look at diamonds from the Koffiefontein mine

  N.A. Meyer, T. Stachel, D.G. Pearson, J.W. Harris

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• Discovery of an orangeite magmatic event in the central Kalahari: implications for the origin of southern African kimberlites

  M. Vinès, S. Tappe, A. Stracke, A. Wilson, A. Rogers

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• Yellow and white diamonds from Qilalugaq kimberlites: two generations of diamond growth

  A. Banas, T. Stachel, K.V. Smit, K. Armstrong

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• Geodynamic and geophysical consequences of stealth(y) mantle metasomatism: craton evolution and metallogeny

  S.Y. O'Reilly, W.L. Griffin, N.J. Pearson

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• Super-reducing conditions in ancient and modern volcanic systems: implications for the carbon budget of the deep lithosphere

  W.L. Griffin, E.M. Gain, J. Huang, Y. Greau, V. Toledo, S.Y. O'Reilly

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• Inclusions in perovskite-magnetite-silicate rocks from Afrikanda, Russia: clues to the early history of carbonatites?

  N.J. Potter, V.S. Kamenetsky, A.R. Chakhmouradian, K. Goemann

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• Continuity of kimberley-type pyroclastic kimberlite phases within Renard 2 over 1,000 m depth – insights to the geological and emplacement model, Superior Craton, Canada

  V. Zhuk, I. Lépine, C. Laroulandie

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• Oxygen fugacity as a control on the distribution of diamond in the sub-cratonic lithospheric mantle

  P.Y. Goodarzi, A.J. Berry, D.G. Pearson, G.M. Yaxley, M. Newville

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• Evolution of kimberlite magmatism on the dynamic Earth

  S. Tappe, K. Smart, R. Stern, M. Massuyeau, M. de Wit

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• The origin of Type II diamonds: insights from contrasting mineral inclusions in Cullinan Type I and Type II stones

  N.M. Korolev, M. Kopylova, Y. Bussweiler, D.G. Pearson, J.J. Gurney, A.E. Moore, J. Davidson

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• Mineral inclusions in diamonds from Karowe mine, Botswana: examining the mantle sources of a diamond population containing exceptionally large crystals

  T. Motsamai, J.W. Harris, T. Stachel, D.G. Pearson, J. Armstrong

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• 3D geological modelling of the Renard 2 pipe, Québec, Canada: from exploration to extraction

  I. Lépine, D.J. Farrow

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• Origin of upper mantle eclogites from the Catoca pipe (N.-E. Angola)

  N.M. Korolev, L.P. Nikitina, A.E. Melnik, V.N. Zinchenko

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• The Renard 2 coherent kimberlite units, Québec, Canada – spatial distribution and economic implications

  I. Lépine, V. Zhuk

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• Depth of formation of super-deep diamonds

  C. Anzolini, F. Nestola, J.W. Harris

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• Hydration of the lithospheric mantle in the northern Slave craton (Canada): constraints from combined FTIR and EBSD measurements on peridotite xenoliths

  Q. Wang, H. Yan, M.G. Kopylova

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• Experimental milling of olivine: implications for ascent and eruption of kimberlite

  T.J. Jones, J.K. Russell

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• Kimberlitic olivine attrition: fingerprinting environments and timescales

  T.J. Jones, J.K. Russell

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• Potential for offsetting diamond mine carbon emissions through mineral carbonation of processed kimberlite

  E.M. Mervine, G.M. Dipple, I.M. Power, S.A. Wilson, G. Southam, C. Southam, J.M. Matter, P.B. Kelemen, J. Stiefenhofer, Z. Miya

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• The diamond size/frequency and size/quality distributions in the Argyle AK1 lamproites

  A.T. Davy, M.J. Rayner, R.W. Platell

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• The magnitude of termites to the future of kimberlite exploration in Botswana

  L.R.M. Daniels, T.A. Dira, O. Kufandikamwe

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• Models of reflection of kimberlite pipes of North-East of Botswana in eolian haloes of dispersion

  V. Ustinov, B. Mosigi, I. Kukui, E. Nikolaeva, J. Campbell, Y. Stegnitskyi, M. Antashchuk

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• Applied geological techniques for the evaluation of kimberlitic tailings mineral resources: the case of Orapa and Letlhakane mines, Botswana

  S. Mkonto, M.A. Roberts

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• Varied emplacement within adjacent kimberlite vents, Jwaneng mine, Botswana

  M.A. Roberts, K. Mmualefe

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• Slope stability challenges and solutions for mining Kimberlite resources hosted in structurally complex country rock: dip slope mining at Jwaneng mine, Botswana

  O. Mogorosi, K. Gabanakgosi, O.M. Barei, T. Thokweng

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• Neoproterozoic Zimmi diamond formation through infiltration of recycled methane into sulphide-bearing Archaean eclogite

  K.V. Smit, S.B. Shirey, E.H. Hauri, J. Wang, T. Stachel, R.A. Stern

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• Relationships between the Diamond Trading Company (DTC) round aperture Diamond Sieve (DS) plates

  P.J. Lawless, D. Farrow

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• New constraints on the origin of carbonates in kimberlites integrating petrography, mineral chemistry and in situ stable isotope analysis

  M. Castillo-Oliver, A. Giuliani, W.L. Griffin, S.Y. O'Reilly, E. Thomassot, R.N. Drysdale

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• Metasomatic evolution of the SCLM beneath the Lunda Norte province (NE Angola)

  M. Castillo-Oliver, W.L. Griffin, J.C. Melgarejo, S. Gali, N.J. Pearson, V. Pervov, S.Y. O'Reilly

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• The principal role of silicic crustal xenolith assimilation in the formation of Kimberley-type pyroclastic kimberlites – a petrographic study of the Renard 65 kimberlite pipe, Quebec, Canada

  M. Gaudet, M. Kopylova, V. Zhuk

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• Tracing lithosphere melt compositions using polymict peridotites

  L. Morfi, B. Harte, J.J. Gurney

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• The petrology of the Kaapvaal craton mantle lithosphere – a synopsis based on xenolith field counts

  B. Harte, J.B. Dawson, J.J. Gurney, T. Ivanic, S. Richardson

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• Building a geometallurgical model for Orapa mine, Botswana

  M. Field, O. Gilika, K. Maphane, R. Letchuti-Tlawera

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• Geochemistry of peridotitic clinopyroxene from the diamondiferous Mbuji-Mayi and Tshibwe kimberlites (DRC): insight into the compositional and thermal state of the SCLM beneath the eastern Kasai craton

  B.J. Nkere, P.E. Janney

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• Ages and sources of mantle eclogites: ID-TIMS U-Pb-Sr isotope systematics of clinopyroxene

  L.M. Heaman, S. Aulbach, D. Jacob, K.S. Viljoen

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• Mineralogy of kimberley-type pyroclastic kimberlite and the transition to hypabyssal kimberlite

  R.H. Mitchell, B.H. Scott Smith

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• Re-Os isotope systematics of sulphide inclusions in diamonds from Victor (Superior craton) document mobilisation of volatiles and Os during Rodinia break-up

  S. Aulbach, R.A. Creaser, T. Stachel, I. Chinn, J. Kong

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• Co-magmatic sulfides and sulfates in the Udachnaya-East pipe (Siberia): sulfur speciation and isotopic composition in kimberlites and their mantle sources

  Y. Kitayama, E. Thomassot, A. Galy, A. Golovin, A. Korsakov, E. d'Eyrames, N. Assayag, N. Bouden, D. Ionov

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• Tracking continental-scale modification of the Earth’s mantle using zircon megacrysts

  J.D. Woodhead, J.M. Hergt, D. Giuliani, D. Phillips, R. Maas

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• Trace elements in gem-quality diamonds from De Beers’ Victor mine, Ontario, Canada

  M.Y. Krebs, G.D. Pearson, T. Stachel, S. Woodland, I. Chinn, J. Kong

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• Peridotite xenoliths of the Chidliak kimberlite province (NE Canada): the North Atlantic cratonic mantle with recent thermal and Ti-Na metasomatic disturbance

  M.G. Kopylova, E. Tso, F. Ma, J. Liu, D.G. Pearson

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• The mineral chemistry the megacryst suite from the Schuller and Premier kimberlites

  D. De Briun

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• Three styles of diamond resorption in a single kimberlite: does crustal xenolith assimilation play a role?

  Y. Fedortchouk, I.L. Chinn, M.G. Kopylova

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• Diamond surface features and metasomatic processes in subcratonic mantle

  Y. Fedortchouk, S. Perritt, I.L. Chinn

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• Age and evolution of the lithospheric mantle beneath southern Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada

  J. Liu, D.G. Pearson, G.A. Harris, M.G. Kopylova, E. Tso

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• Tracing Mg-rich fluids by Mg-O isotopes at slab-mantle interface in continental subduction zones: insights from the Mg-metasomatic rocks in both western and eastern Alps

  Y.-X. Chen, H.-P. Schertl, A. Demény, Y.-F. Zheng, F. Huang, K. Zhou, Y.-Z. Gong

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• The geology of the Faraday 3 kimberlite, Kennady Lake, NWT

  D.D. Gainer, C. Hetman, M. Diering

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• Barium and titanium enrichment of zoned phlogopite xenocrysts and phenocrysts in the Adamantin kimberlites, Québec, Canada

  R.L. Barnett, C. Laroulandie

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• Complex zoning of olivine in archetypal kimberlites provides new insights into the evolution of kimberlite magmas

  E. Lim, A. Giuliani, D. Phillips

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• Kelvin and Faraday kimberlite emplacement geometries and implications for subterranean magmatic processes

  W. Barnett, M. Stubley, C. Hetman, R. Uken, C. Hrkac, T. McCandless

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• The role of sulphur during partial melting of eclogite in the cratonic mantle: constraints from experiments and xenoliths

  S. Burness, K.A. Smart, G. Stevens, S. Tappe

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• Kimberlite intrusions, kimberlitic ash dispersal, diamond transport and diamond deposition: the potential role of Earth systems modelling in diamond exploration

  R. Crossley, J. Harris, J. Watson, A. Ashley, K. Lamb, M. Goodrich, P. Valdes, J. Hill, A. Avdis

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• Kimberlite fields of Angola: structural control and diamond presence

  V. Ustinov, A. Feijo, A. Zagainy, S. Mityukhin, F. Tunga, I. Mikoev, Y. Stegnitskyi, L. Lobkova, E. Nikolaeva

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• Deep delineation evaluation drilling methods, Jwaneng mine, Botswana

  F.T. McKinlay, M. Roberts

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• Evolution of the Orapa A/K1 geology model – insights from analysis of multi-disciplinary datasets

  K. Maphane

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• Multiphase solid inclusions in UHP eclogite from the Dabie orogen: constratints on anatectic melts during continental collision

  X.-Y. Gao

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• Diamond-bearing in the north of European Russia and prospects of new diamond deposits discovery

  V.S. Shchukin, V.N. Nesis, S.I. Trushin, S.L. Roslyakov, K.V. Efimov, A.I. Osetskiy, E.V. Shchukina

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• The relationship among various morphological types of diamonds within diamond deposits in Russia: genesis, growth, dissolution and real diamond grade

  V.K. Garanin, A.V. Bovkun, K.V. Garanin, G.Yu. Kriulina, I.V. Serov

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• Features of diamond and its indicator minerals of kimberlites of the M.V. Lomonosov Deposit, Arkhangelsk Region, Russia

  A.V. Bovkun, G.Yu. Kriulina, V.K. Garanin, V.V. Tretyachenko

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• Main mineralogical-petrological features of Early-Hercynian volcanic complexes of Archangelsk kimberlite-picrite region, NW Russia

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

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• Zarya diamond deposit, Yakutian Province, Russia

  V.V. Polyanichko, R.F. Salikhov, V.P. Serov, F.F. Tyurin, K.V. Garanin, Z.V. Spetsyus, O.V. Tarskikh, M.Yu. Zezekalo

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• Carbonate inclusions in Cr-pyropes derived from the mantle beneath Central Aldan superterrane of Siberian craton

  I.S. Sharygin, E.I. Nikolenko, K.V. Lobov

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• Interstitial mineral assemblages in sheared garnet peridotites from Udachnaya-East kimberlite pipe, Siberian craton

  I.S. Sharygin, A.V. Golovin

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• The 812-carat pure Type IaB constellation diamond from Karowe – part of an even larger rough?

  U.F.S. D'Haenens-Johansson, E.M. Smith, K.V. Smith, W. Wang, T.M. Moses

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• The P3 kimberlite, Wajrakarur kimberlite field, India: mineralogy, and major and trace element compositions of olivines as records of their magmatic versus xenocrystic origin

  A.M. Shaikh, S.C. Patel, E.V.S.S.K. Babu, S. Ravi

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• The geology of the Faraday 1 kimberlite, NWT, Canada

  L. Nelson, C. Hetman, M. Diering

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• Microinclusions in diamonds from deposits of different genetic kimberlite types

  G.Yu. Kriulina, V.K. Garanin, E.A. Vasiliev, D.A. Zedgenizov, A.V. Bobrov, R.V. Vasiliev, S.V. Vyatkin

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• Forecast diamond quality in the deposit

  G.Yu. Kriulina, V.K. Garanin

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• Formation of dunite xenoliths in kimberlites and ailikites; petrographic and mineral compositions from a deformed xenolith in the Majuagaa kimberlite dike, Greenland

  N. Arndt, C. Cordier, T. Nielsen, V. Batanova, A.-M. Boullier, I. Ashchepkov

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• The emplacement of Voorspoed pipe, South Africa: a tale of incremental pipe growth, tephra jets, mixing, and a shallow crater

  A. Fulop, S. Kurszlaukis, R. Rodrigues, J. Stiefenhofer

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• First identification of molybdenite in diamond-hosted sulphide inclusions and possible implications for Re-Os dating of diamonds

  L.I.M. Kemppinen, S.C. Kohn, I.J. Parkinson, G.P. Bulanova, D.H. Howell, C.B. Smith

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• The chemical and isotopic composition of Diavik fibrous diamonds and their microinclusions

  O. Navon, B.M. Jablon, R.A. Stern, T. Stacehl

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• Ilmenite as a recorder of the kimberlite history from mantle to surface: examples from Indian kimberlites

  J. Xu, J.C. Melgarejo, M. Castillo-Oliver

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• Magma mingling at the Menominee pipe, USA? Contributions from texture and mineral chemistry.

  J. Xu, J.C. Melgarejo, L. Torró i Abat, M. Castillo-Oliver

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• Transport and eruption of mantle xenoliths: a lagging problem

  K. Russell, T. Jones, G. Andrews, B. Edwards, J. Pell

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• The Archean sedimentary sulfur recycling under the Kaapvaal craton revisited from 4S-isotopic compositions in sulfide inclusions in diamonds from Kimberley Pool (South Africa) Jwaneng and Orapa (Botswana)

  E. Thomassot, J. Farquhar, N. Bouden, J.W. Harris, K. McKeegan, J. Cliff, B. Wing, P. Piccoli

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• Ilmenite generations in orangeite from Banankoro, Guinea: implications for exploration

  J. Xu, J.C. Melgarejo, M. Castillo-Oliver, L. Arqués, J. Santamaria

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• Styles of alteration of Ti oxydes of the kimberlite groundmass: implications on the petrogenesis and classification of kimberlites and similar rocks

  J. Xu, J.C. Melgarejo, M. Castillo-Oliver

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• Hidden reservoirs in the continental lithosphere? Evidence from Hf-Sr-Nd-Pb isotopes in southern African kimberlite megacrysts.

  P.E. Janney, D.R. Bell

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• Deciphering the composition and structure of Wyoming craton mantle lithosphere: insights from peridotite xenoliths

  B. Parks, E.J. Chin, A. Saal, G. Hirth, C. Hearn, J.-L. Bodinier

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• A mantle metasomatic injection event linked to Permo-Carboniferous lamprophyre magmatism and associated rare metal ore deposition (Sn-W-Mo-Sc-In-Li, Ag(-Au)-In-base metal) in the eastern European Variscides

  T. Seifert

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• Sodium-bearing phases in the transition zone and uppermost lower mantle: experimental and natural data

  A.V. Bobrov, A.P. Tamarova, E.A. Sirotkina, L. Bindi, T. Irifune

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• Estimation of commercial diamond grades based on microdiamonds: a case study of the Koidu diamond mine, Sierra Leone

  T. Nowicki, G. Garlick, K. Webb, M. Van Eeden

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• Geochemistry of the Namaqualand, Bushmanland and Warmbad melilitite and kimberlite provinces of South Africa and Namibia: the southern extension of the African kimberlitic megalineament

  P.E. Janney, M.D. Kirchner, P.I. Ogungbuyi, C. Harris, D.R. Bell

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• Geology of the K6-252 kimberlite complex, Alberta

  T. McCandless, B. DesGagnes, M. Shimell, G. Read

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• Revitalizing exploration in a key diamond district: a case study in the Northwest Territories, Canada

  B. Elliott, M. Ross, S. Kelley, D. Cummings, P. Winterburn, B. Ward, A. Mirza, P. Normandeau, S. Cairns

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• Discrimination of Whiskey kimberlite eruptive phases utilizing portable XRF spectrometry data

  B.A. Kjarsgaard, E.C. Grunsky, S. Kurszlaukis, M. Seller

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• Metasomatism of cratonic lithosphere by hydrous, silica-rich, fluids derived from recycled sediment: experimental insights at 5-7 GPa

  R.P. Rapp, S. Timmerman, J. Lowczak, A.L. Jaques

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• Eclogites and garnet pyroxenites from Kimberley, W. Kaapvaal craton, South Africa: severe metasomatism of basaltic cumulates

  Q. Shu, G.P. Brey, G.P. Pearson

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• Diamond ages: what they mean and how they can be interpreted

  S.B. Shirey, D.G. Pearson

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• The geology and evaluation of the Kelvin kimberlite pipe, NWT, Canada

  M. Bezzola, C. Hetman, G. Garlick, R. Creaser, C. Hrkac, G. Vivian, M. Diering, T. Nowicki

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• Old unradiogenic Os in deep mantle metallic liquid from large gem IIa diamonds

  E.M. Smith, S.H. Richardson, S.B. Shirey, W. Wang

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• Karowe diamond mine: a world-class source of large exceptional diamonds

  J.P. Armstrong

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• Lamprophyres, F-Sn-rhyolites and -explosive breccia pipes and their relationship to Sn-polymetallic mineralization in the Muehlleithen-Gottesberg district (Germany) – indications for late-Variscan mantle-derived rare metal-enriched fluid pulses

  T. Seifert

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• Sound velocity of carbonate melts under high pressure and temperature conditions and the origin of mid-lithosphere discontinuity

  K. Mibe, Y. Kono

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• New surprises at old discoveries: exploration and sampling of the AK11 kimberlite, Orapa kimberlite field, Botswana

  G.Q.J. Pybus, K. Tiyedze, J. Armstrong

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• Exploration and sampling of the BK02 kimberlite, Orapa kimberlite field, Botswana

  G.Q.J. Pybus, K. Tiyedze, J. Armstrong

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• Sulphide inclusions in sublithospheric diamonds

  L.I.M. Kemppinen, E. Thomassot, S.C. Kohn, G.P. Bulanova, I.J. Parkinson, C.B. Smith

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• Magmaclasts in kimberlite

  K.J. Webb, C.M. Hetman

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• The carbon cycle in the continental lithosphere and the generation of alkaline mafic melts in cratonic and rift regions

  S.F. Foley, T.P. Fischer

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• Kimberlite exploration under thick Kalahari cover using the new powerful SPECTREM-PLUS AEM system

  D. Khoza, N. Devkurran, L. Polome, S. Letts

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• Letšeng diamond mine, Lesotho: recent advances in open pit geology of the main kimberlite pipe

  M. Mohapi, C. Hetman, J. Robey, B. Scott Smith, T. Nkotsi

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• Oxidation of lithospheric mantle beneath Tanzania by melt reaction

  S.-B. Zhang, R. Rudnick, C. McCammon

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• New and revised crustal and upper mantle terraine boundaries in southern Africa: implications for kimberlite exploration and emplacement

  D. Khoza

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• Geology of KX36 kimberlite, central Botswana

  S. Lobatlamang, M.T. Mokgaotsane

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• Geochemical evidence for carbonated metasomatite as the mantle source of Cenozoic alkali basalts in western Qinling, China

  L.-Q. Dai, F. Zheng, Z.-F. Zhao, Y.-F. Zheng

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• Generation of 3D kimberlite pipe models for resource classification and mine planning: data sources, procedures, and guidelines

  C.M. Hetman, M.D. Diering, W. Barnett

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• The geology of the Faraday 2 kimberlite, NWT, Canada

  L. Nelson, C. Hetman, M. Diering

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• Density measurement, within the context of the rock mass characterization program of the Kelvin and Faraday kimberlites and surrounding country rock, in the Northwest Territories of Canada

  A. Bloem, C. Hetman, G. Arseneau, C. Hrkac

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• Mining for diamonds – history and present

  J. Jakubec

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• Underground diamond mining at Ekati and Diavik diamond mines

  J. Jakubec, R. Woodward, B. Boggis, L. Clark, P. Lewis

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• Stability of Fe3+ bearing majorite in the Earth's mantle

  Y. Fei, R. Tao

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• Mapping heat flow from a time series of satellite temperature images as a regional exploration tool for kimberlites

  N. Pendock

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• Letšeng diamond mine, Lesotho: recent advances in open pit geology of the Satellite kimberlite pipe

  T. Nkotsi, C. Hetman, J. Robey, B. Scott Smith, M. Mohapi

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• Vertical pit mining – an alternative to open pit mining for massive/shallow orebodies

  P.J. Terbrugge, R. Armstrong

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• Letšeng diamond mine, Lesotho: a variant of kimberley-type pyroclastic kimberlite emplacement

  C. Hetman, B. Scott Smith, J. Robey, T. Nkotsi, M. Mohapi, T. Mohapi

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• Geochemical and petrographical study of megacrysts and mantle xenoliths from Gemsbok Hollow and Gruendorn kimberlites in the Warmbad kimberlite province, South Africa

  W. de Klerk, D.R. Bell

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• Petrology of the White River diamondiferous Paleoproterozoic intrusive rocks

  R.C. Brett, S. Metteer, W. Riemer, S. Russell, A. Faragher, S. Zurevinski

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• Can microdiamonds be used to predict the distribution of large Type IIa macrodiamonds? A case study at the Letseng mine.

  A. Banas, T. Stachel, R.A. Stern, A. Allan, L. Freeman

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• Kimberlites – from mantle to mine

  B.H. Scott Smith

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• The birth, growth and ageing of the Kaapvaal subcratonic mantle

  G.P. Brey

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• Olivine zoning and the evolution of kimberlite systems

  G. Giuliani, A. Soltys, E. Lim, H. Farr, D. Phillips, K. Goemann, W.L. Griffin

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• Application of machine learning techniques to exploration: an example using self-organising maps for garnet data

  A.F. Kobussen, P.D. Agnew, G. Broadbent

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• Prospecting history leading to the discovery of Botswana’s diamond mines: from artifacts to Lesedi La Rona

  M.C.J. de wit

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• Fluid-rich microinclusions in diamonds open windows to large mantle processes

  Y. Weiss

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• Ocean-continent transition to suprasubduction zone origin of the western Yarlung Zangbo ophiolites in southwest Tibet, China: constraints from the petrology, mineralogy, and geochemistry of the peridotites

  F. Liu, D. Lian, J. Yang, X. Niu, Y. Dilek, G. Feng, H. Zhao, G. Li

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• Mg-metasomatized Fe-rich dunites from the Thaba Putsoa kimberlite, Lesotho: headstones in a kimberlite graveyard

  V. Toth, D.J. Schulze

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