Crater of Diamonds State Park (Arkansas Diamond Corp. Mine; Mauney Mine; Ozark Mine; Prairie Creek Lamproite), Murfreesboro, Pike Co., Arkansas, USA

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Fee-based diamond collecting site.
Haggertyite is present as microscopic hexagonal plates in the alteration zones of xenoliths in Prairie Creek lamproite.
The Prairie Creek Lamproite is Early Cretaceous (106mya) in age.

References:
- Gogineni, S.; Melton, C.; and Giardini. A. (1978): Some petrological aspects of the Prairie Creek diamond-bearing kimberlite diatreme, Arkansas (Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 66:252-262).

- American Mineralogist (1998): 83: 1323-1329.

- American Mineralogist (2000): 85: 420-429.

Article entry:
	TGMS 2008 - The Crater of Diamonds	Jolyon Ralph

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33 entries listed. 23 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral).

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