Massive Diamond Cache Detected Beneath Earth's Surface

From News Max.com (July 20):

There's a load of bling buried in the Earth.

More than a quadrillion tons of diamonds to be exact -- or one thousand times more than one trillion -- US researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reported this week.

But don't expect a diamond rush. These naturally occurring precious minerals are located far deeper than any drilling expedition has ever reached, about 90 to 150 miles (145 to 240 kilometers) below the surface of our planet.

"We can't get at them, but still, there is much more diamond there than we have ever thought before," said Ulrich Faul, a research scientist in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences. [read more]

Nice. But if geologists or diamond hunters ever venture down to find the diamonds they might want to be aware of prehistoric animals. Oh, wait. That’s from the movie Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008). Based on Jules Verne’s 1864 novel of the same name. Sorry, about that. I’ve never read the novel but seen the movie. Based on the summary of the novel, the movie had diamonds in it but the novel didn’t.