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Compositions of Kimberlite Melts: A Review of Melt Inclusions in Kimberlite Minerals
AbstractThe paper presents a comprehensive review of currently available data on melt inclusions entrapped in minerals of kimberlites of different...
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Serpentinization of Olivine in a Kimberlite Pipe Udachnaya
The article presents the results obtained in the study of the Udachnaya-Zapadnaya and Udachnaya-Vostochnaya pipes. The nature of their relationships...
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Composition of Secondary Melt Inclusions in Magnesiochromite of a Mantle Lherzolite Xenolith from the V. Grib Kimberlite Pipe (East European Craton) as an Indicator of Low H2O Content of the Kimberlite Melt
AbstractThis paper describes secondary crystallized melt inclusions trapped in magnesiochromite of lherzolite xenolith from the V. Grib kimberlite...
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U–Pb (ID-TIMS) Age of Perovskite from Kimberlites of the Manchary Pipe (Khompu-Maya Kimberlite Field, Central Yakutia)
AbstractThe results of U–Pb Isotope Dilution Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometry (ID-TIMS) geochronological studies of perovskite from kimberlite...
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Accelerated mineral bio-carbonation of coarse residue kimberlite material by inoculation with photosynthetic microbial mats
Microbiological weathering of coarse residue deposit (CRD) kimberlite produced by the Venetia Diamond Mine, Limpopo, South Africa enhanced mineral...
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Kimberlite magmatism fed by upwelling above mobile basal mantle structures
Most diamonds have been transported to Earth’s surface from depths between ~120 km and ~660 km by volatile-rich magmas called kimberlites. The...
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Scandium Ore Occurrences in the Ancient Weathering Crust in the Nakyn Kimberlite Field of Yakutia
AbstractIn the Malo-Botuobinsky, Sredne-Markhinsky, and Ygyattinsky diamond-bearing areas of the Western Yakutian kimberlite province, the...
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Nesquehonite from the Kimberlite Pipe Obnazhennaya: Thermal Analysis and Infrared Spectroscopy
The data of thermal and spectroscopic studies of the first find of rare magnesium carbonate - nesquehonite in the Obnazhennaya kimberlite pipe are...
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Iowaite from the Udachnaya Kimberlite Pipe, Yakutia: Crystal Chemistry and Postcrystallization Transformations
AbstractAn atypical variety of iowaite with an extremely low content of divalent cations (Mg + Fe 2+ )/Fe 3+ of ~2.75 : 1 is identified in a late...
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Small Diamonds and Chrome Spinelids from Aptian Deposits of the Voronezh Anteclise as Kimberlite Magmatism Indicators
AbstractKimberlite indicator minerals (KIMs) are distributed unevenly within the Voronezh anteclise (VA) both along the section and over its area....
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Mineralogy of Peridotite Xenoliths from the Komsomol’skaya–Magnitnaya Kimberlite Pipe (Upper Muna Field, Siberian Craton)
AbstractNovel data from mineralogical studies of the peridotite xenoliths from the Komsomol’skaya–Magnitnaya kimberlite pipe, Upper Muna field,...
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Metasomatized Xenoliths of Mantle Eclogites and Garnet Pyroxenites from the V. Grib Kimberlite, Arkhangelsk Province
We investigated mantle eclogite and garnet pyroxenite xenoliths from the V. Grib kimberlite located in the Arkhangelsk diamond province. The...
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Patterns of Phase Formation in Kimberlite under Reducing Conditions at 4 GPa and 1500°C
AbstractExperimental data on the interaction of an iron melt with natural kimberlite at a temperature of 1500 ± 25°C and a pressure of 4.0 ± 0.2 GPa...
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Redox state of the Dharwar craton root as inferred from eclogite and peridotite sourced mantle cargo, with implications for kimberlite and lamproite magma formation
Despite over 400 occurrences of kimberlites and related rocks in India, mantle-derived xenoliths are known only from a few occurrences. This paucity...
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Composition of Volatile Components in Polycrystalline Diamond Aggregates from Mir and Udachnaya Kimberlite Pipes, Yakutia
Polycrystalline aggregates of diamonds, known as bort, framesite, diamondite, are densely cemented aggregates of small (<1 mm) crystals of both...
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Aragonite in the Interstitial Space of a Mantle Xenolith from the Udachnaya Kimberlite Pipe (Siberian Craton): Direct Evidence for the Presence of Carbonatite Melts in the Deep Lithospheric Mantle
AbstractThis paper reports the first discovery of zoned aragonite, a high-pressure CaCO 3 polymorph, in a mantle xenolith from kimberlite. Aragonite...
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Degassing Mechanisms of Kimberlite Magma at Its Initial Ascent: Experimental Data at 5.5 and 3.0 GPa
Abstract—The mechanisms of kimberlite magma effervescence were experimentally studied for the first time with the use of kimberlite-like melts, which...
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Chemical composition of garnet and ilmenite from stream sediments and soil applied to diamond fertility investigation: the kimberlite intrusion of Ariquemes, Rondonia (Brazil)
In exploratory programs for kimberlites focused at discovering diamond deposits, it is important to identify tools that define their fertility. The...
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Features of the Structures and Evolution of the Lower Part of the Continental Crust of the Yakutian Diamondiferous Province within the Upper Muna Kimberlite Field
AbstractStudy of xenoliths of crustal rocks from the Novinka kimberlite pipe (Upper Muna kimberlite field) showed that the crust at different levels...
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Multistage Mantle Metasomatism during the Generation of Kimberlite Melts: Evidence from Mantle Xenoliths and Megacrysts of the Grib Kimberlite, Arkhangelsk, Russia
Major and trace element compositions of garnet, clinopyroxene, orthopyroxene, phlogopite, and ilmenite from garnet peridotite, ilmenite-bearing...
