It might be true that "a diamond is forever," but it's becoming hard to find a real one. As the De Beers company has not discovered significant new reserves of kimberlite in South Africa and Zimbabwe in recent years, it turned to Botswana to find these rocks which indicate the presence of diamonds. But, as reports Mineweb, instead of relying on soil samples, De Beers teamed with Bell Geospace to use geophysical methods such as gravity surveys. And after using planes for a while, the company has now ordered a big Zeppelin to process these gravity surveys. The blimp, which recently arrived in South Africa, will start its eight-month research mission in October 2005. Will it be successful? Time will tell. But read more...
Sources: Gareth Tredway, Mineweb, August 11, 2005; and various web sites
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