The world's largest diamond crater

The "Perpigai Crater" diamond mine was originally discovered in a 100-kilometer-long crater in eastern Siberia and was measured to be 56 kilometers in diameter, equivalent to the length of more than 500 standard soccer fields, so experts estimate that the diamonds here may be able to meet the future global diamond market for up to 3,000 years. market for up to 3,000 years.

It is said that the mine was discovered back in the 1970s and may contain trillions of carats of diamonds, but fearing that the price of diamonds would fall after the news was revealed, it has not been revealed in order to avoid affecting Russia's diamond business. It was only in recent years that the world's giant mine was unveiled, mainly because in 2009, Russia's diamond output reached a record low, and recently the international diamond market has shown signs of recovery, so Russia chose to disclose this trillion carat diamond pit.

How big is this "Perpignan Crater"? According to the experts of the Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, the amount of diamond resources in this crater may be 10 times more than the current global diamond reserves, knowing that in addition to the "Perpigai Crater", the largest is the Yakutia mine, and its reserves are only 1 billion carats, which is only equivalent to "It is only one ten-thousandth of the size of the Perpignan Crater.

The diamond mines are different from other areas in that they are meteorite impact diamonds. So the diamonds here are different from ordinary diamonds, mainly used in jewelry, and the diamonds produced in the "Perpigai Crater" are almost two times harder than ordinary diamonds, which makes this kind of diamond can be used in industry, even in high-precision and high-tech industry is very popular.