Identification of diamond in the Canyon Diablo iron

C. J Ksanda; E. P. Henderson

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Research Article| November 01, 1939

Identification of diamond in the Canyon Diablo iron

C. J Ksanda;

C. J Ksanda

Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington

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E. P. Henderson

U. S. National Museum, Washington, D.C.

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C. J Ksanda

Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington

E. P. Henderson

U. S. National Museum, Washington, D.C.

Publisher: Mineralogical Society of America

First Online: 29 Jun 2018

Online ISSN: 1945-3027

Print ISSN: 0003-004X

Mineralogical Society of America

American Mineralogist (1939) 24 (11): 677–680.

Abstract

The first good evidence of diamond in a known meteorite was published in 1888, by Jerofejev and Lachinov In a stony meteorite which fell in September 1886, near Novo-Urei, they found grayish grains which were regarded as diamonds.Kunz was ableto procure a small piece of the same meteorite andsubstantiated their conclusion.

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