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Gold/Mining/Energy : Canadian Diamond Play Cafi
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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (1255)9/1/2003 12:04:01 AM
From: E. Charters  Read Replies (1) of 16206
 
Magnetic Ion filter. I like it. a.)how do we get ions.. vaporization I take it.. then the filter.. a semipermeable membrane with a 1 million gauss magnet behind it? What form would it take?

The garage ion carbon vapour with argon or other intert gas method actually works. It makes ragged greenish black layers of diamond by the metastability method described.

DeBeers has some patents in this field for diamond films.

As well we see some micro diamonds for industrial usage, i.e. chip bonding made this way. With some modifications and we think, pressure applied, one can get some sort of octo or dodecahedrons growing -- I believe the Russian follow this process in part. Gem quality, so far, has eluded the manufacturers it is said.

The industrial pressure grown diamonds made in Russia are very good octahedrons. I guess they could pass for Gem quality, as their crystal structure is very good, such that their resistance to shock and wear is superior. I don't know their seed. The pressure-made GE North American industrials are borazon mitride and blackish. Their form is somewhat inferior to the Russian industrials, the latter of which are preferred for drilling diamonds by a wide margins, but their expense is greater. The French abrasives company Diamet has a superior grade silver drill bit which uses exclusively Russian industrials but it is pricey. Drills a lot of feet. The improvement in drill footage since 1970 in Canada has been some major with the usage of the improved foreign-diamond bits.

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