Plane loses £263m cargo of gold and diamonds during take off

According to reports, the Nimbus Airline An 12 cargo plane’s hatch opened mid take off allowing the goods to fall out.

The incident occurred at Yakutsk airport in Eastern Siberia on Thursday, The Siberian Times reported.

Yakutsk is in Siberia’s diamond producing region.

Images appear to show the large bars scattered across the runway while another picture shows the large hole in the cargo section of the plane.

The Siberian Times reported that the plane dropped gold bars as far as 26 kilometres from the airport.

 A spokesman told TASS: “A total of 172 gold bars weighing 3.4 tonnes have been found so far.”

Police sealed off the runway and a vast search is underway for the missing items.

It’s thought that the cargo belonged to Chukota Mining and Geological Company. Canadian Kinross Gold have a 75 per cent share in the company.

An investigation is now underway as to how the hatch managed to open and whether any staff were involved in the incident.

Technical engineers at the airport have been detained.

Plane loses £263m cargo of gold and diamonds during take off

According to reports, the Nimbus Airline An 12 cargo plane’s hatch opened mid take off allowing the goods to fall out.

The incident occurred at Yakutsk airport in Eastern Siberia on Thursday, The Siberian Times reported.

Yakutsk is in Siberia’s diamond producing region.

Images appear to show the large bars scattered across the runway while another picture shows the large hole in the cargo section of the plane.

The Siberian Times reported that the plane dropped gold bars as far as 26 kilometres from the airport.

 A spokesman told TASS: “A total of 172 gold bars weighing 3.4 tonnes have been found so far.”

Police sealed off the runway and a vast search is underway for the missing items.

It’s thought that the cargo belonged to Chukota Mining and Geological Company. Canadian Kinross Gold have a 75 per cent share in the company.

An investigation is now underway as to how the hatch managed to open and whether any staff were involved in the incident.

Technical engineers at the airport have been detained.

“The Lesotho Legend” sells for $40 million

Gem Diamonds recovered the 910 carat rough diamond in January.
The world’s fifth biggest gem quality diamond ever found has sold for $40 million , the company that found the massive rough diamond reported.

Gem Diamonds mined the D colourType IIa rough diamond at its flagship Letšeng mine in Lesotho.
The Lesotho Legend was purchased by an anonymous buyer in Antwerp, the company said.

Prior to “The Lesotho Legend,” the largest rough diamond recovered at Letšeng was a 603 carat named Lesotho Promise.

Source: DCLA 

“The Lesotho Legend” sells for $40 million

Gem Diamonds recovered the 910 carat rough diamond in January.
The world’s fifth biggest gem quality diamond ever found has sold for $40 million , the company that found the massive rough diamond reported.

Gem Diamonds mined the D colourType IIa rough diamond at its flagship Letšeng mine in Lesotho.
The Lesotho Legend was purchased by an anonymous buyer in Antwerp, the company said.

Prior to “The Lesotho Legend,” the largest rough diamond recovered at Letšeng was a 603 carat named Lesotho Promise.

Source: DCLA 

Type of ice found trapped in a diamond new to science

Ice VII inclusions found within diamonds is evidence for aqueous fluid in deep in Earth’s mantle.

The inclusions a high pressure form of water called ice VII present in diamonds sourced from between 410 and 660 km depth, the part of the mantle known as the transition zone.
The transition zone is a region where the stable minerals have high water storage capacity.

The inclusions suggest that local aqueous pockets form at the transition zone boundary owing to the release of chemically bound water as rock cycles in and out of this region.

Ice VII is about one and a half times more dense than regular ice but unlike the other phases of ice  ice VII remains fairly stable even as the pressure increases.

Source: DCLA

Type of ice found trapped in a diamond new to science

Ice VII inclusions found within diamonds is evidence for aqueous fluid in deep in Earth’s mantle.

The inclusions a high pressure form of water called ice VII present in diamonds sourced from between 410 and 660 km depth, the part of the mantle known as the transition zone.
The transition zone is a region where the stable minerals have high water storage capacity.

The inclusions suggest that local aqueous pockets form at the transition zone boundary owing to the release of chemically bound water as rock cycles in and out of this region.

Ice VII is about one and a half times more dense than regular ice but unlike the other phases of ice  ice VII remains fairly stable even as the pressure increases.

Source: DCLA

Gem Diamonds sixth large rough diamond for this year

Gem Diamonds at an elevation of 3,100 meters above sea level, The Letšeng Diamond mine is one of the world’s highest diamond mines.

The Letšeng Diamond Mine is having an extraordinary year this far as the miner continues to recover rough diamonds larger than 100 carats at its mine in Lesotho.

On Wednesday, the company announced it had recovered a 152 carat  D colour type IIa diamond, the sixth exceptional large rough diamond so far this year.

Source: DCLA