TIL Russia has a vast diamond field containing "trillions of carats", enough to supply global markets for another 3000 years. The field was discovered in the 1970s underneath 35 million year-old asteroid crater in Siberia.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/17/russian-diamonds-siberian-meteorite-crater-carats_n_1891691.html



Submitted March 26, 2015 at 12:25AM by godblow http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/30a6u1/til_russia_has_a_vast_diamond_field_containing/