Gigantic amount of diamonds found buried below earth surface

Gigantic amount of diamonds found buried below earth surface 

Gigantic cache of diamond has been discovered deep inside our planet.

We can’t get at them, but still, there is much more diamond there than we have ever thought before'

There may be more than a quadrillion tonnes of these precious minerals buried below Earth’s surface, according to new research by an international team of scientists.

They say despite its reputation for rarity and the value people have attributed to it, the discovery shows diamond is “perhaps not this exotic mineral” after all.

The diamonds appear to be embedded in cratonic rocks – the oldest sections of mantle rock found underneath the planet’s tectonic plates.

These inverted mounds of rock stretch up to 200 miles through the Earth’s crust, and the analysis conducted by Dr Faul and his colleagues suggested diamonds make up around 1 or 2 per cent of them.

The scientists were alerted to this phenomenon by an anomaly in data collected from ground-shaking events like earthquakes and tsunamis.

New discoveries every day, there is indeed more to the planet earth than we can possibly understand