Diamonds don't begin and end with Botswana. Long before Earth's mantle produced the stones that fill Golconda auction lots and GIA grading reports, carbon was crystallizing under conditions no terrestrial geology could replicate — inside the cores of ancient, shattered protoplanets drifting through the early solar system.
Carbon from the Cosmos: What Asteroid Diamonds Tell Us About Deep Earth and Deep Space
Before kimberlite pipes and cutting wheels, there were diamonds forged in the violent hearts of protoplanets — and they're stranger than anything Alrosa ever pulled from Siberian ground. Here's what collectors and gemologists should know.
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