{"id":26024,"date":"2024-08-23T11:02:16","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T05:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=26024"},"modified":"2025-04-07T23:05:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T17:35:50","slug":"worlds-second-largest-diamond-in-botswana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/worlds-second-largest-diamond-in-botswana\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s Second-Largest Diamond in Botswana"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Recent discovery:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The newly discovered diamond is second to the <strong>3,106-carat Cullinan Diamond<\/strong>, which was found in South Africa over a century ago.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Botswana<\/strong>, a leading diamond producer, relies heavily on the diamond industry, which constitutes<strong> 30% of its GDP and 80% of its exports.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The diamond was unearthed using <strong>advanced X-ray transmission technology<\/strong>, which enhances the recovery of large stones without causing damage.<\/li>\n<li>The diamond is yet to be fully assessed, and its potential to yield high-quality gems remains to be determined.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Diamond characteristics:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Formation:<\/strong> Diamonds form in the Earth\u2019s mantle and are brought to the surface through volcanic activity. They are found in volcanic landforms like <strong>dykes <\/strong>and <strong>sills.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Uses:<\/strong> Diamonds are utilised in<strong> jewellery, industrial cutting tools, <\/strong>and <strong>polishing due to their hardness.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Diamonds in India:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Major locations:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Panna belt:<\/strong> Madhya Pradesh<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wajrakarur Kimberlite pipe:<\/strong> Anantapur district, Andhra Pradesh<\/li>\n<li><strong>Krishna River basin gravels:<\/strong> Andhra Pradesh<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Recent discoveries:<\/strong> New kimberlite fields in Raichur-Gulbarga districts, Karnataka.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Processing:<\/strong> Modern cutting and polishing are concentrated in Surat, Navasari, Ahmedabad, and Palampur.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Global diamond production:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Leading producers:<\/strong> Russia, Botswana, Canada, Australia, South Africa, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Notable producers:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Botswana:<\/strong> Key mines include Orapa and Jwaneng.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Australia:<\/strong> Known for <strong>coloured diamonds<\/strong> such as pink, purple, and red.<\/li>\n<li><strong>South Africa:<\/strong> Hosts diverse diamond deposits including kimberlite and fissure mining.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Synthetic diamonds:<\/strong> The US is the largest producer of synthetic industrial diamonds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Global diamond resources:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Russia:<\/strong> Believed to have the largest and richest diamond resources.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Botswana:<\/strong> Leading in value and significant in volume.<\/li>\n<li><strong>DRC:<\/strong> One of Africa\u2019s major diamond producers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1. What is Carbon?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>It is a very abundant element. It exists in pure or nearly pure forms \u2013 such as diamonds and graphite \u2013 but can also combine with other elements to form molecules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newly discovered diamond is second to the 3,106-carat Cullinan Diamond, which was found in South Africa over a century ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}