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'Trillions of Carats': Russia Sitting on Diamond Trove

Can supply world for 3K years

By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted Sep 17, 2012 11:40 AM CDT

(Newser) – Russia is now a girl's best friend: A 62-mile-wide crater in Siberia sits on top of a diamond field that's home to "trillions of carats," scientists say. "By comparison, present-day known reserves" in Russia's Yakutia diamond operations are thought...   Read full story »

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