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Gold/Mining/Energy : A Little Forum For Gold Microclusters
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To: Michael J. Wendell who wrote ()8/2/1997 6:15:00 PM
From: Michael J. Wendell   of 142
 
To all cyberfolk chatters
I understand diamonds are atomic clusters of carbon. They just grow larger than their micro-cousins. They are an allotrope of carbon. That is they have physical and chemical properties that differ from coal, at least my wife thinks so.

There are quite a number of kimberlite intrusives in North America, actually all continents. They are basic, sulfur deficient rocks and are not far removed from the basic silica deficient rocks that are being prospected for PGMs in AZ right now.Kimberlites are the host rocks for diamonds, although only a few of them have commercial diamonds. I may be wrong, but they come from even deeper than the other ultra-basic rock suites with Mantle derivation; the ones that are currently being researched for PGMs. If the earths Mantle, that zone between the crust and the core, contains platinum in the few exposed windows we have studied, than wouldn't it be reasonable because of the weight of platinum, the deeper manlte rocks might be even richer in PGMs. Without sulfur, I believe if there is platinum present in that Mantle stratum, than the platinum would all be cluster forms and therefore not easily discovered? Maybe I am wrong, Kimberlites might be higher sequences? Anyone know?
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