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On Oct. 18, the American Gem Society’s grading lab, AGS Laboratories, announced that it will close at the end of 2022, with GIA taking over its intellectual property, technology, as well as its Las Vegas location, which it will use as a research facility. ....
Countless asteroids have struck Earth, leaving behind enormous craters that have scarred the blue planet's surface. Asteroids from space that enter the atmosphere and strike the earth's surface are known as impact events. ....
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05 april 2021 Today Almost every year, the Russian press reports on the future development of the Popigai deposit of impact diamonds in the north of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. These “sensations” have already grown more and more detailed, including the relevant agreements between the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the leadership of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), and the Krasnoyarsk Territory, as well as attracting ALROSA and AFK (Joint-Stock Financial Company) Sistema as investors, and even positioning this project as a joint one with the Republic of Belarus. According to the Popigai diamond proponents, they promise brilliant prospects to Russia and the world, they say that the development of the deposit will provide the world industry with new rough diamonds, the annual demand for which may rise to 1 billion carats. The public interest in the issue has been mounting and it inevitably requires answers to the questions - why has a unique diamond ....
Scientists say impact diamonds have absolutely unique technology features KRASNOYARSK, April 12. /TASS/. Development of the Popigai deposit of impact diamonds in the Krasnoyarsk Region’s north will offer new raw material to the global industry. An annual demand for it in various sectors may be up to 1 billion carats. Development of the resources, which formed after a meteorite hit the Earth 36 million years ago, will require common efforts of the Krasnoyarsk Region and Yakutia, experts told TASS. Read also Presently, the global industry uses natural technical and artificial diamonds; most of them are made in China. The annual global consumption of synthetic diamonds is 15-16 billion carats. Scientists say impact diamonds (which develop from graphite rocks at the time an asteroid hits the Earth) have absolutely unique technology features. For example, they can process materials twice or 2.5 times quicker than synthetic or natural technical diamonds. Their wear resista ....