De Hoog, J. C. M., Stachel, T., & Harris, J. W. (2019). Trace-element geochemistry of diamond-hosted olivine inclusions from the Akwatia Mine, West African Craton: implications for diamond paragenesis and geothermobarometry. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 174(12), 100.

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	Research paper Trace elements in gem diamond from Akwatia, Ghana and DeBeers Pool, South Africa G.L. Melton...ICPMS Ghana De Beers Pool a b s t r a c t Monocrystalline gem-quality diamonds from Akwatia, Ghana and...elevated LREEN/MREEN and variable LREEN/TiN. One diamond from Ghana is distinct (G103) by having a much steeper...Syngenetic garnet inclusions indicate that the diamond growth medium must have been highly enriched in...trace impurities in gem diamond represent trapped inclusions of the diamond forming ﬂuid/melt. Mixtures
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	Trace‑element geochemistry of diamond‑hosted olivine inclusions from the Akwatia Mine, West African Craton: implications...implications for diamond paragenesis and geothermobarometry J. C. M. De Hoog1 · T. Stachel2 · J. W. Harris3...coexisting garnets included in diamonds from the Akwatia Mine (Ghana, West African Craton) were measured to show...similar information about equilibration temperature, diamond paragenesis and mantle processes as garnet. Trace-element...Conventional geothermobarometry indicates that Akwatia diamonds formed and resided close to a 39 mW/m2
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	Springer-Verlag 1997 Thomas Stachel á Je W. Harris Diamond precipitation and mantle metasomatism ± evidence...chemistry of silicate inclusions in diamonds from Akwatia, Ghana Received: 27 January 1996 / Accepted: 5 May...clinopyroxene) included in diamonds from Akwatia (Birim Field, Ghana) were determined using SIMS. Incompatible...CO2bearing melts or ¯uids may thus be excluded. Diamond inclusion chemistry and mineralogy also is inconsistent...metasomatism by H2O-rich melts. We therefore favour diamond precipitation by oxidation of CH4-rich ¯uids with
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	a diamondiferous lherzolite from the Premier diamond mine, South Africa K.S. (Fanus) Viljoen a,, René...diamondiferous peridotite xenolith from the Premier diamond* mine in South Africa. The xenolith is altered with...6 x to 1.3x. These are broadly correlated with diamond nitrogen content as determined by infrared spectroscopy...Metasomatism occurred prior to, or accompanied, diamond growth. D 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved...reserved. Keywords: Peridotite; Lherzolite; Diamond; Kimberlite; Lithosphere; Infrared 1. Introduction This
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	of iron ore is currently restricted to a single mine, Yekepa, in the Nimba Range. Other important deposits...Goe Fantro. There is a long history of alluvial diamond production in western and central Liberia, together...diamonds since the 1960s and 1970s. Further detailed field and laboratory 1 investigations using modern techniques...Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Mali in the west to Ghana and Niger in the east. The western part of the Leo-Man...domain) comprises Archaean gneisses, whereas the eastern part (the Baoulé-Mossi domain) is largely Paleoproterozoic
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	inclusions in alluvial diamonds from the Kankan region of Guinea in West Africa are mainly of lherzolitic...exclusively lherzolitic garnets document that the diamond source experienced a previous stage of melt extraction...from the Monastery mine. Subsequently, the discovery of diamonds from the Brazilian mine SaÄo Luiz, which...the present study on diamonds from the Kankan district in Guinea, we will examine the major and trace...lithospheric inclusion parageneses and then evaluate diamond populations derived from the asthenosphere and
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	homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/precamres Type Ib diamond formation and preservation in the West African...Available online 22 September 2016 Keywords: Type Ib Diamond Re–Os Sulphide West Africa Cratonic lithosphere...diamonds from the Zimmi (West Africa) alluvial diamond locality were analysed for their bulk Fe–Cu–Ni–Co...features characteristic of eclogitic sulphides. Each diamond has 3–4 individual inclusions. 187Re/188Os and...mineral isochrons for each diamond – unambiguously dating the time of diamond formation. The 650 Ma age
	Nimis, P. (2002) THE PRESSURES AND TEMPERATURES OF FORMATION OF DIAMOND BASED ON THERMOBAROMETRY OF CHROMIAN DIOPSIDE INCLUSIONS. The Canadian Mineralogist, 40 (3) 871-884 doi:10.2113/gscanmin.40.3.871	Journal (article/letter/editorial)
	THE PRESSURES AND TEMPERATURES OF FORMATION OF DIAMOND BASED ON THERMOBAROMETRY OF CHROMIAN DIOPSIDE INCLUSIONS...temperature (T) and pressure (P) of formation of natural diamond has generally relied on thermobarometry of rare...potential re-equilibration of touching minerals after diamond growth and possible disequilibrium between non-touching...inclusions of chromian diopside (mostly isolated) in diamond crystals containing inclusions of peridotitic material...conditions and relative timing of diamond genesis. Inclusions in diamond and xenoliths from the same source
	Banas, Anetta, Stachel, Thomas, Muehlenbachs, Karlis, McCandless, Tom E. (2007) Diamonds from the Buffalo Head Hills, Alberta: Formation in a non-conventional setting. Lithos, 93 (1) 199-213 doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2006.07.001	Journal (article/letter/editorial)
	0 Ga) and hence an unconventional setting for diamond exploration. Buffalo Hills diamonds formed during...2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Keywords: Diamond inclusions; Carbon isotopes; Nitrogen aggregation;...Majorite; Off-craton 1. Introduction Traditionally diamond exploration has focused on cratons stabilized in...an empirically derived association of primary diamond deposits with Archean cratons as summarized by...in the discovery of the Buffalo Hills kimberlite field in northern Alberta. It was discovered in 1997 by
	*Olade, M. A. (1980) Precambrian metallogeny in West Africa. Geologische Rundschau, 69 (2) 411-428 doi:10.1007/bf02104546*	Journal (article/letter/editorial)
	of early Archean cratonie rocks in Liberia and eastern Sierra-Leone. They consist of a complex assemblage...scattered relics within the Archean craton in eastern Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. These include... A greater part of the West African craton in eastern Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and Ivory Coast is...1968). In the Ivory Coast and to the east as far as Ghana (Fig. 2), the Archean basement complex is overlain...Guinea has been correlated with Birrimian rocks in Ghana (HAuGItTON, 1963; H~-WKES,1972). The Marampa Group
	Stachel, Thomas, Aulbach, Sonja, Brey, Gerhard P., Harris, Jeff W., Leost, Ingrid, Tappert, Ralf, Viljoen, K.S.(Fanus) (2004) The trace element composition of silicate inclusions in diamonds: a review. Lithos, 77 (1) 1-19 doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2004.03.027	Journal (article/letter/editorial)
	eclogitic diamond sources. The trace element composition of an ‘‘average eclogitic diamond source’’ based...about 10% of a partial melt in the garnet stability field and that subsequently experienced only minor reenrichment...inclusion. This suggests that sublithospheric diamond sources may be linked to old oceanic slabs, possibly...can provide the redox gradients necessary for diamond precipitation in an otherwise reduced sublithospheric...V. All rights reserved. Keywords: Inclusion in diamond; REE; Metasomatism; Lithosphere; Garnet; Majorite;
	*Wilson, A. N. (1982) Diamonds* - from Birth to Eternity. Gemological Institute of America, Santa Monica, CA.**	Book
	Coast. DIAMONDS: FROM BIRTH TO ETERNITY A diamond is rarely found embedded in kimberlite rock. This...update its diamond mining and reeovery inlormation, we asked the assistance ol John Roux, Diamond Information...to present Arthur Wilson’s compilation on the diamond and its origins. Richard T. Liddicoat, Jr. CONTENTS... 413 Index . 449 i\ LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Diamond (Color Plate).Frontispiece Lord Rutherford. 4 Radiometric...Radiometric dating. 5 Hannay's experiment. 11 Graphite-diamond equilibrium . 13 Convection cells . 15 Snider-Pelligrini
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	Akademika Osip’yana 4, Chernogolovka, 142432, Moscow Region, Russia b Science Facilities Department, Natural...set of trace elements (TE) in the partly molten diamond-forming peridotite–eclogite– carbonatite system...Model TE partition coefficients for the natural diamond-producing carbonatite melts of mantle chambers...minerals of peridotite and eclogite parageneses of diamond inclusions, on the one hand, and on the experimental...“metasomatic agents” in the formation of chambers of diamond-forming carbonatite magmas. © 2015, V.S. Sobolev
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	Accepted: 7 January 1998 Abstract Syngenetic diamond inclusions from the Mwadui kimberlite reveal that...pairs suggests successive iron enrichment during diamond formation, e.g. leading to the presence of harzburgitic...harzburgitic garnet and lherzolitic olivine in the same diamond. Apart from the dominant peridotitic inclusion...association Fe-FeO-Fe3O4 in one single diamond indicates diamond formation over a large range of fO2 conditions...harzburgitic garnet and a SiO2-phase in the same diamond. Alternatively the formation of the SiO2phase may

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Diamond from Akwatia Mine, Birim diamond field, Denkyembour District, Eastern Region, Ghana

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Akwatia Mine, Birim diamond field, Denkyembour District, Eastern Region, Ghana