A Review of the Geology of Global Diamond Mines and Deposits

Diamond Placers of the Nakyn Kimberlite Field

(2022) T.V. Kedrova et al.   Russian Geology and Geophysics

Geochronology of Diamonds

(2022) Karen V. Smit et al.   Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry

Morphology of Monocrystalline Diamond and its Inclusions

(2022) Jeff W. Harris et al.   Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry

Non-cratonic Diamonds from UHP Metamorphic Terranes, Ophiolites and Volcanic Sources

(2022) Larissa F. Dobrzhinetskaya et al.   Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry

Mineral Inclusions in Lithospheric Diamonds

(2022) Thomas Stachel et al.   Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry

Geochemistry of Silicate and Oxide Inclusions in Sublithospheric Diamonds

(2022) Michael J. Walter et al.   Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry

Polycrystalline Diamonds from Kimberlites: Snapshots of Rapid and Episodic Diamond Formation in the Lithospheric Mantle

(2022) Dorrit E. Jacob et al.   Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry

Carbon compounds in the West Kimberley lamproites (Australia): Insights from melt and fluid inclusions

(2022) Adam Abersteiner et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Detrital chromites reveal Slave craton’s missing komatiite

(2021) Rasmus Haugaard et al.   GEOLOGY

Mesozoic to Paleoproterozoic diamond growth beneath Botswana recorded by Re-Os ages from individual eclogitic and websteritic inclusions

(2021) Michael U. Gress et al.   LITHOS

Plume-driven recratonization of deep continental lithospheric mantle

(2021) Jingao Liu et al.   NATURE

The spatial and temporal evolution of primitive melt compositions within the Lac de Gras kimberlite field, Canada: Source evolution vs lithospheric mantle assimilation

(2021) Madeline Tovey et al.   LITHOS

Deep continental roots and cratons

(2021) D. Graham Pearson et al.   NATURE

Cognate versus xenocrystic olivines in kimberlites – A review

(2021) Andy Moore et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Petrogenesis of Kaapvaal lamproites (aka orangeites) constrained by the composition of olivine and similarities with kimberlites and other diamondiferous lamproites

(2021) Geoffrey H. Howarth et al.   LITHOS

Petrogenesis of coeval lamproites and kimberlites from the Wajrakarur field, Southern India: New insights from olivine compositions

(2021) Soumendu Sarkar et al.   LITHOS

Controls on the explosive emplacement of diamondiferous kimberlites: New insights from hypabyssal and pyroclastic units in the Diavik mine, Canada

(2020) Madeline Tovey et al.   LITHOS

Kimberlite metasomatism of the lithosphere and the evolution of olivine in carbonate-rich melts – evidence from the Kimberley kimberlites (South Africa)

(2020) Ashton Soltys et al.   JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY

Igneous Rock Associations 26. Lamproites, Exotic Potassic Alkaline Rocks: A Review of their Nomenclature, Characterization and Origins

(2020) Roger H. Mitchell   GEOSCIENCE CANADA

A comparison of geochronological methods commonly applied to kimberlites and related rocks: Three case studies from Finland

(2020) Hayden Dalton et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

U-Th/He systematics of fluid-rich ‘fibrous’ diamonds – Evidence for pre- and syn-kimberlite eruption ages

(2019) Suzette Timmerman et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Silicate Melt Inclusions in Diamonds of Eclogite Paragenesis from Placers on the Northeastern Siberian Craton

(2019) Vladislav Shatsky et al.   Minerals

Mineral and fluid inclusions in diamonds from the Urals placers, Russia: Evidence for solid molecular N2 and hydrocarbons in fluid inclusions

(2019) Nikolay V. Sobolev et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Kimberlites reveal 2.5-billion-year evolution of a deep, isolated mantle reservoir

(2019) Jon Woodhead et al.   NATURE

Luminescence Chronology of Terrace Development in the Upper Paraná River, Southeast Brazil

(2019) Stefania C. Oliveira et al.   Frontiers in Earth Science

Kimberlites: From Deep Earth to Diamond Mines

(2019) Andrea Giuliani et al.   Elements

What is a Kimberlite? Petrology and Mineralogy of Hypabyssal Kimberlites

(2019) Roger H. Mitchell et al.   Elements

Kimberlites from Source to Surface: Insights from Experiments

(2019) Stephen F. Foley et al.   Elements

Kimberlites as Geochemical Probes of Earth’s Mantle

(2019) D. Graham Pearson et al.   Elements

Dating Kimberlites: Methods and Emplacement Patterns Through Time

(2019) Larry M. Heaman et al.   Elements

Diamond Exploration and Resource Evaluation of Kimberlites

(2019) Bruce A. Kjarsgaard et al.   Elements

Petrogenesis of a hybrid cluster of evolved kimberlites and ultramafic lamprophyres in the Kuusamo area, Finland

(2019) Hayden Dalton et al.   JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY

Polyphase Inclusions in Chromium Spinels from Upper Triassic Gravelites from the Northeastern Part of the Siberian Platform

(2018) E. I. Nikolenko et al.   DOKLADY EARTH SCIENCES

Geodynamics of kimberlites on a cooling Earth: Clues to plate tectonic evolution and deep volatile cycles

(2018) Sebastian Tappe et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Petrography of Snap Lake Kimberlite Dyke (Northwest Territories, Canada) and its Interaction with Country Rock Granitoids

(2018) Alexandrina Fulop et al.   JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY

A new approach to reconstructing the composition and evolution of kimberlite melts: A case study of the archetypal Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa)

(2018) Ashton Soltys et al.   LITHOS

Insights into kimberlite petrogenesis and mantle metasomatism from a review of the compositional zoning of olivine in kimberlites worldwide

(2018) Andrea Giuliani   LITHOS

Cr-rich megacrysts of clinopyroxene and garnet from Lac de Gras kimberlites, Slave Craton, Canada – implications for the origin of clinopyroxene and garnet in cratonic lherzolites

(2018) Yannick Bussweiler et al.   MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

Provenance history of detrital diamond deposits, West Coast of Namaqualand, South Africa

(2018) David Phillips et al.   MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

Insights into the petrogenesis of the West Kimberley lamproites from trace elements in olivine

(2018) A. Lynton Jaques et al.   MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

The P3 kimberlite and P4 lamproite, Wajrakarur kimberlite field, India: mineralogy, and major and minor element compositions of olivines as records of their phenocrystic vs xenocrystic origin

(2018) Azhar M. Shaikh et al.   MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

Origin of complex zoning in olivine from diverse, diamondiferous kimberlites and tectonic settings: Ekati (Canada), Alto Paranaiba (Brazil) and Kaalvallei (South Africa)

(2018) Emilie Lim et al.   MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

New insights into volcanic processes from deep mining of the southern diatreme within the Argyle lamproite pipe, Western Australia

(2018) Murray J. Rayner et al.   MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

Geochronology, classification and mantle source characteristics of kimberlites and related rocks from the Rae Craton, Melville Peninsula, Nunavut, Canada

(2018) Chiranjeeb Sarkar et al.   MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

Geology of the Renard 65 kimberlite pipe, Québec, Canada

(2018) Matthew Gaudet et al.   MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

Punctuated, long-lived emplacement history of the Renard 2 kimberlite, Canada, revealed by new high precision U-Pb groundmass perovskite dating

(2018) Ilona M. Ranger et al.   MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

A review of the mineral potential of Liberia

(2018) A.G. Gunn et al.   ORE GEOLOGY REVIEWS

Composition and emplacement of the Benfontein kimberlite sill complex (Kimberley, South Africa): Textural, petrographic and melt inclusion constraints

(2018) Adam Abersteiner et al.   LITHOS

Prospects of search for diamondiferous kimberlites in the northeastern Siberian Platform

(2018) N.V. Sobolev et al.   Russian Geology and Geophysics

New constraints on archetypal South African kimberlite petrogenesis from quenched glass-rich melt inclusions in olivine megacrysts

(2018) Geoffrey H. Howarth et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Brazilian Diamonds: A Historical and Recent Perspective

(2017) Darcy P. Svisero et al.   GEMS & GEMOLOGY

Archaean and Proterozoic diamond growth from contrasting styles of large-scale magmatism

(2017) Janne M. Koornneef et al.   Nature Communications

Stratigraphy of the Roraima Supergroup along the Brazil-Guyana border in the Guiana shield, Northern Amazonian Craton - results of the Brazil-Guyana Geology and Geodiversity Mapping Project

(2017) Nelson Joaquim Reis et al.   Brazilian Journal of Geology

Geochemistry and sedimentary provenance of the Upper Cretaceous Uberaba Formation (Southeastern Triângulo Mineiro, MG, Brazil)

(2017) Dennis Arthuso Quintão et al.   Brazilian Journal of Geology

Evidence of young, proximal and primary (YPP) diamond source occurring in alluviums in the Santo Antônio do Bonito, Santo Inácio and Douradinho rivers in Coromandel region, Minas Gerais

(2017) Rogério Silvestre Pereira et al.   Brazilian Journal of Geology

The evolution of calcite-bearing kimberlites by melt-rock reaction: evidence from polymineralic inclusions within clinopyroxene and garnet megacrysts from Lac de Gras kimberlites, Canada

(2016) Y. Bussweiler et al.   CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

Overview of Diamond Resources in Africa

(2016) Mike De Wit et al.   EPISODES

The provenance of Borneo's enigmatic alluvial diamonds: A case study from Cempaka, SE Kalimantan

(2016) L.T. White et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Tracing the depositional history of Kalimantan diamonds by zircon provenance and diamond morphology studies

(2016) Nico Kueter et al.   LITHOS

Early Archaean tectonics and mantle redox recorded in Witwatersrand diamonds

(2016) Katie A. Smart et al.   Nature Geoscience

Early Permian diamond-bearing proximal eskers in the Lichtenburg/Ventersdorp area of the North West Province, South Africa

(2016) Mike C.J. de Wit   SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY

The age of predictable primary diamond sources in the northeastern Siberian Platform

(2015) S. A. Grakhanov et al.   DOKLADY EARTH SCIENCES

U–Pb geochronology and Sr/Nd isotope compositions of groundmass perovskite from the newly discovered Jurassic Chidliak kimberlite field, Baffin Island, Canada

(2015) Larry M. Heaman et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Erosion patterns and mantle sources of topographic change across the southern African Plateau derived from the shallow and deep records of kimberlites

(2015) Jessica R. Stanley et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Duration and periodicity of kimberlite volcanic activity in the Lac de Gras kimberlite field, Canada and some recommendations for kimberlite geochronology

(2015) Chiranjeeb Sarkar et al.   LITHOS

Paragenesis and complex zoning of olivine macrocrysts from unaltered kimberlite of the Udachnaya-East pipe, Yakutia: relationship with the kimberlite formation conditions and evolution

(2015) N.V. Sobolev et al.   Russian Geology and Geophysics

The Sytykanskaya kimberlite pipe: Evidence from deep-seated xenoliths and xenocrysts for the evolution of the mantle beneath Alakit, Yakutia, Russia

(2015) I.V. Ashchepkov et al.   Geoscience Frontiers

Stable isotope (C, O, S) compositions of volatile-rich minerals in kimberlites: A review

(2014) Andrea Giuliani et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Emplacement ages and sources of kimberlites and related rocks in southern Africa: U–Pb ages and Sr–Nd isotopes of groundmass perovskite

(2014) W. L. Griffin et al.   CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

Repeated kimberlite magmatism beneath Yakutia and its relationship to Siberian flood volcanism: Insights from in situ U–Pb and Sr–Nd perovskite isotope analysis

(2014) Jing Sun et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Peridotites from Attawapiskat, Canada: Mesoproterozoic Reworking of Palaeoarchaean Lithospheric Mantle beneath the Northern Superior Superterrane

(2014) K. V. Smit et al.   JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY

Hydrous mantle transition zone indicated by ringwoodite included within diamond

(2014) D. G. Pearson et al.   NATURE

Mesoproterozoic orangeites (Kimberlites II) of West Karelia: Mineralogy, geochemistry, and Sr-Nd isotope composition

(2014) A. V. Kargin et al.   PETROLOGY

The Basal Conglomerate of the Capacete Formation (Mata da Corda Group) and its Relation to Diamond Distributions in Coromandel, Minas Gerais State, Brazil

(2014) Augusto Fonseca Fernandes et al.   Brazilian Journal of Geology

Diamonds from the Coromandel Area, West Minas Gerais State, Brazil: an update and new data on surface sources and origin

(2014) Joachim Karfunkel et al.   Brazilian Journal of Geology

Kimberlite Volcanism

(2013) R.S.J. Sparks   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Mantle transition zone input to kimberlite magmatism near a subduction zone: Origin of anomalous Nd–Hf isotope systematics at Lac de Gras, Canada

(2013) Sebastian Tappe et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Re–Os dating of sulphide inclusions zonally distributed in single Yakutian diamonds: Evidence for multiple episodes of Proterozoic formation and protracted timescales of diamond growth

(2013) D.F. Wiggers de Vries et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Digestion Fractional Crystallization (DFC): an Important Process in the Genesis of Kimberlites. Evidence from Olivine in the Majuagaa Kimberlite, Southern West Greenland

(2013) L. H. Pilbeam et al.   JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY

Diamonds and the Geology of Mantle Carbon

(2013) S. B. Shirey et al.   Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry

Mineralogical criteria for the diamond potential of Upper Triassic placers on the northeastern margin of the Siberian Platform

(2013) N.V. Sobolev et al.   Russian Geology and Geophysics

Eruption of kimberlite magmas: physical volcanology, geomorphology and age of the youngest kimberlitic volcanoes known on earth (the Upper Pleistocene/Holocene Igwisi Hills volcanoes, Tanzania)

(2012) Richard J. Brown et al.   BULLETIN OF VOLCANOLOGY

U–Pb SHRIMP geochronology of zircon from the Catoca kimberlite, Angola: Implications for diamond exploration

(2012) Sandra E. Robles-Cruz et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Vanished diamondiferous cratonic root beneath the Southern Superior province: evidence from diamond inclusions in the Wawa metaconglomerate

(2012) Christine E. Miller et al.   CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

Evaluating the diamondiferous potential of unaltered kimberlites by the population models of their composition

(2012) V. B. Vasilenko et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY INTERNATIONAL

In situ U–Pb Dating and Sr–Nd Isotopic Analysis of Perovskite: Constraints on the Age and Petrogenesis of the Kuruman Kimberlite Province, Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa

(2012) Cara L. Donnelly et al.   JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY

A rare occurrence of a crater-filling clastogenic extrusive coherent kimberlite, Victor Northwest (Ontario, Canada)

(2011) Bram I. van Straaten et al.   BULLETIN OF VOLCANOLOGY

The Catoca kimberlite pipe, Republic of Angola: A paleovolcanological model

(2011) V. A. Pervov et al.   GEOLOGY OF ORE DEPOSITS

Maar-diatreme volcanoes: A review

(2011) J.D.L. White et al.   JOURNAL OF VOLCANOLOGY AND GEOTHERMAL RESEARCH

Petrology of the hypabyssal kimberlite of the Kroonstad group II kimberlite (orangeite) cluster, South Africa: Evolution of the magma within the cluster

(2011) Geoffrey H. Howarth et al.   LITHOS

Diamondiferous, Neoarchean fan-delta deposits, western Superior Province, Canada: Sedimentology and provenance

(2011) Corey Wendland et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Olivine crystal size distributions in kimberlite

(2010) S. Moss et al.   AMERICAN MINERALOGIST

Nature and evolution of the Slave Province subcontinental lithospheric mantleThis article is one of a series of papers published in this Special Issue on the theme Lithoprobe — parameters, processes, and the evolution of a continent.

(2010) Larry M. Heaman et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

Petrogenesis of the end-Cretaceous diamondiferous Behradih orangeite pipe: implication for mantle plume–lithosphere interaction in the Bastar craton, Central India

(2010) N. V. Chalapathi Rao et al.   CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

Diamondiferous kimberlites in central India synchronous with Deccan flood basalts

(2010) Bernd Lehmann et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Distribution of placer diamonds related to Precambrian sources

(2010) V. P. Afanas’ev et al.   GEOLOGY OF ORE DEPOSITS

The diamonds of South Australia

(2009) Ralf Tappert et al.   LITHOS

Geology and evaluation strategy of the Star and Orion South kimberlites, Fort à la Corne, Canada

(2009) S. Harvey et al.   LITHOS

Re–Os and 40Ar/39Ar isotope measurements of inclusions in alluvial diamonds from the Ural Mountains: Constraints on diamond genesis and eruption ages

(2009) Fernando Laiginhas et al.   LITHOS

Age and origin of peridotitic diamonds from Venetia, Limpopo Belt, Kaapvaal–Zimbabwe craton

(2009) S.H. Richardson et al.   LITHOS

Variations of olivine abundance and grain size in the Snap Lake kimberlite intrusion, Northwest Territories, Canada: A possible proxy for diamonds

(2009) M. Field et al.   LITHOS

African kimberlites revisited: In situ Sr-isotope analysis of groundmass perovskite

(2009) Jon Woodhead et al.   LITHOS

Diamonds: Exploration, mines and marketing

(2009) George H. Read et al.   LITHOS

Metasomatic mantle origin for Mbuji-Mayi and Kundelungu garnet and clinopyroxene megacrysts (Democratic Republic of Congo)

(2009) M. Pivin et al.   LITHOS

A practical guide to terminology for kimberlite facies: A systematic progression from descriptive to genetic, including a pocket guide

(2009) R.A.F. Cas et al.   LITHOS

Kimberlite and related rocks from Garnet Lake, West Greenland, including their mantle constituents, diamond occurrence, age and provenance

(2009) Mark T. Hutchison et al.   LITHOS

Tuffisitic kimberlites from the Wesselton Mine, South Africa: Mineralogical characteristics relevant to their formation

(2009) Roger H. Mitchell et al.   LITHOS

Origin of olivine in kimberlite: Phenocryst or impostor?

(2009) R.C. Brett et al.   LITHOS

Distribution of kimberlite and aillikite in the Diamond Province of southern West Greenland: A regional perspective based on groundmass mineral chemistry and bulk compositions

(2009) Troels F.D. Nielsen et al.   LITHOS

Nature and genesis of Kalimantan diamonds

(2009) Chris B. Smith et al.   LITHOS

Pyroclastic flow deposits from a kimberlite eruption: The Orapa South Crater, Botswana

(2009) T.M. Gernon et al.   LITHOS

Tectonic setting of kimberlites

(2009) Hielke Jelsma et al.   LITHOS

Diamond provenance studies from 40Ar/39Ar dating of clinopyroxene inclusions: An example from the west coast of Namibia

(2009) D. Phillips et al.   LITHOS

Geochemistry of hypabyssal kimberlites from Lac de Gras, Canada: Comparisons to a global database and applications to the parent magma problem

(2009) B.A. Kjarsgaard et al.   LITHOS

Spatial and temporal evolution of kimberlite magma at A154N, Diavik, Northwest Territories, Canada

(2009) S. Moss et al.   LITHOS

The importance of the transport system in shaping the growth and form of kimberlite volcanoes

(2009) Murray McClintock et al.   LITHOS

Syn- and post-eruptive volcanic processes in the Yubileinaya kimberlite pipe, Yakutia, Russia, and implications for the emplacement of South African-style kimberlite pipes

(2009) S. Kurszlaukis et al.   LITHOS

Rhaetian diamond placers in Siberia

(2009) S.A. Grakhanov et al.   Russian Geology and Geophysics

Landscape evolution in Zimbabwe from the Permian to present, with implications for kimberlite prospecting

(2009) A.E. Moore et al.   SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY

CRETACEOUS EROSION IN CENTRAL SOUTH AFRICA: EVIDENCE FROM UPPER-CRUSTAL XENOLITHS IN KIMBERLITE DIATREMES

(2009) E.K. HANSON et al.   SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CRETACEOUS DIAMONDIFEROUS GRAVEL DEPOSIT AT MAHURA MUTHLA, NORTHERN CAPE PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA

(2009) M.C.J. DE WIT et al.   SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY

THE MAJUAGAA KIMBERLITE DIKE, MANIITSOQ REGION, WEST GREENLAND: CONSTRAINTS ON AN Mg-RICH SILICOCARBONATITIC MELT COMPOSITION FROM GROUNDMASS MINERALOGY AND BULK COMPOSITIONS

(2008) T. F.D. Nielsen et al.   CANADIAN MINERALOGIST

Petrogenesis of the Swartruggens and Star Group II kimberlite dyke swarms, South Africa: constraints from whole rock geochemistry

(2008) Nancy Coe et al.   CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

Controls on post-Gondwana alkaline volcanism in Southern Africa

(2008) Andy Moore et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Crystallization of Groundmass Spinel in Kimberlite

(2008) P. L. Roeder et al.   JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY

A new approach to kimberlite facies terminology using a revised general approach to the nomenclature of all volcanic rocks and deposits: Descriptive to genetic

(2008) Ray Cas et al.   JOURNAL OF VOLCANOLOGY AND GEOTHERMAL RESEARCH

Formation of “Tuffisitic Kimberlites” by phreatomagmatic processes

(2008) Stephan Kurszlaukis et al.   JOURNAL OF VOLCANOLOGY AND GEOTHERMAL RESEARCH

Canadian kimberlites: Geological characteristics relevant to emplacement

(2008) Barbara H. Scott Smith   JOURNAL OF VOLCANOLOGY AND GEOTHERMAL RESEARCH

Some major problems with existing models and terminology associated with kimberlite pipes from a volcanological perspective, and some suggestions

(2008) R.A.F. Cas et al.   JOURNAL OF VOLCANOLOGY AND GEOTHERMAL RESEARCH

The origin of cratonic diamonds — Constraints from mineral inclusions

(2008) T. Stachel et al.   ORE GEOLOGY REVIEWS

Kimberlite-hosted diamond deposits of southern Africa: A review

(2008) Matthew Field et al.   ORE GEOLOGY REVIEWS

LAM-ICPMS U–Pb dating of kimberlitic perovskite: Eocene–Oligocene kimberlites from the Kundelungu Plateau, D.R. Congo

(2007) J BATUMIKE et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS