山东蒙阴金刚石的"似玛瑙状"生长结构及氮、氢杂质分布的不均一性

阴极发光(CL)技术可揭示金刚石生长结构、阶段和过程.利用该技术首次发现蒙阴金刚石中罕见的"似玛瑙状"生长结构,并分析了该典型结构的特征和生长机制.该样品定向切片的傅立叶变换红外光谱(FTIR)微区分析表明,氮、氢杂质分布不均一,从生长中心至边缘,总氮含量和B中心百分数逐渐降低,但变化幅度较小;氢浓度呈不规则振荡,边缘区最高.该生长结构和杂质不均一特点揭示了金刚石生长过程中熔/流体的参与作用和生长条件、环境的复杂性.     

山东郯城砂矿金刚石特征及包裹体研究

通过对115粒山东郯城砂矿金刚石样品进行矿物学和光谱学特征研究,结果显示郯城金刚石的粒径集中在1. 0~4. 0mm之间,晶体形态以菱形十二面体为主,其次八面体与菱形十二面体聚形,八面体较少;晶面形貌除倒三角凹坑、塑性变形滑移线、熔蚀沟、生长丘、生长阶梯、叠瓦状蚀象、滴状丘、晕线等原生形貌发育外,小部分发育有次生形貌 绿色色斑,且大多数金刚石的边棱清晰,磨圆程度不高。研究首次测得了郯城金刚石的拉曼特征峰的半高宽数据和金刚石包裹体拉曼谱图,显示郯城砂矿金刚石结晶程度差异较大,暗示其形成的金刚石地质生长条件和环境的复杂性;金刚石包裹体有橄榄石、黄铜矿、针铁矿、石墨矿物,其中橄榄石包裹体占比较高,表明郯城金刚石包裹体类型以橄榄岩型为主,测试结果与华北东部古老克拉通之下的岩石圈地幔大部分由橄榄岩组成的结论一致。对比郯城金刚石与蒙阴金刚石特征的异同,初步探讨了金刚石砂矿的物质来源,为揭示郯城砂矿金刚石的形成及演化提供了金刚石及其包裹体的新的证据。     

山东蒙阴褐色金刚石的透射电镜特征分析

山东蒙阴褐色金刚石的颜色由多个原因导致,为了验证褐色与塑性变形存在着一定的关系,同时为了分析褐色金刚石在透射电镜下的特征,本研究选取采自山东蒙阴胜利1号岩管的褐色金刚石样品,利用透射电镜和X射线能谱仪对褐色金刚石的位错组态、位错密度以及矿物包裹体进行了实验研究。实验结果表明,样品中存在片晶氮,一定意义上表明山东蒙阴褐色金刚石中的位错组态以及位错间的相互作用、位错反应的类型是非常丰富的,而这些都是以位错的运动为前提的;位错密度从一定意义上表明该类金刚石样品均具有一定程度的塑性变形,为褐色与塑性变形的关联提供一定的量化参考。     

山东蒙阴金刚石的晶体形态和晶面特征

为探讨山东蒙阴金刚石的形成条件,研究了胜利Ⅰ号金伯利岩筒的金刚石晶面及晶形特征,结果认为金刚石的形成温度范围为１０００～１６００℃,压力范围为４０×１０８Ｐａ～５０×１０８Ｐａ。     

华北克拉通金伯利岩型金刚石矿床含矿性判别

金伯利岩型金刚石原生矿床含矿性评价是了解金刚石成矿规律和指导区域性找矿的重要依据。华北克拉通是我国重要的金刚石成矿远景区,目前已发现了两个重要的含金刚石金伯利岩岩区（山东蒙阴和辽宁瓦房店）。近年来,对岩区内不同品位金刚石典型矿床的研究表明金伯利岩中的金刚石品位取决于以下两个重要的地质过程：金伯利岩岩浆对金刚石的捕获作用和金伯利岩岩浆对金刚石的熔蚀作用。在华北克拉通下方存在一个金刚石稳定区,温度为950~1200 ℃,压力为4. 4~6. 1 GPa。山东蒙阴和辽宁瓦房店金伯利岩岩浆在上升过程中穿过该区域并捕获其中的金刚石,成为含矿岩浆;而铁岭和鹤县等金伯利岩岩浆在上升过程中不穿过该区域,成为不含矿岩浆。在穿过金刚石稳定区时,富矿的金伯利岩捕获了更多的金刚石以及金刚石的伴生指示矿物（如镁铝榴石,镁铬铁矿）;而贫矿的金伯利岩则相对捕获了少量的金刚石和指示矿物。这些指示矿物往往参加了金刚石的形成过程,有些作为缓冲剂控制了反应（岩浆或熔体）的氧化还原状态,有些则作为反应物或者生成物参与到反应中。部分指示矿物（如镁铝榴石）还进一步地记录了金刚石形成后金伯利岩岩浆对金刚石的交代作用。金伯利岩岩浆温度（T）,氧逸度（fO2）和挥发份(H2O和CO2)均会对金刚石的熔蚀作用产生影响,其中氧逸度作用最大,温度次之,而挥发份作用最弱。在华北克拉通,金伯利岩中指示矿物（镁铝榴石、镁铬铁矿）和金伯利岩岩浆特征（温度,氧逸度和挥发份）共同组成了金伯利岩型金刚石原生矿的评价指标。     

山东省鲁西金刚石的类型、源区及区域壳幔演化背景

山东省鲁西地区具有工业价值的金刚石矿有原生金刚石矿和金刚石砂矿两种类型,前者的母岩类型主要有金伯利岩型和煌斑岩型;后者的母岩类型有砾岩型和砂岩型,产于第四纪小埠岭组和于泉组中。寒武纪李官组、石炭纪本溪组、侏罗纪三台组、古近纪官庄群和新近纪白彦组也是金刚石的储集层,但均达不到工业利用的要求。这些储集层中所含的金刚石比较而言,蒙阴和费县等地的本溪组中的粒度最大,平邑—泗水地区白彦组中的含量最富,临沂金雀山三台组中的完整晶型者占比最高,枣庄上泥河和泗水踅庄地区李官组中的金刚石熔蚀、磨圆最严重。不同层位和类型的金刚石,其源区、形成时代和构造背景不同。岩相古地理分析表明,李官组金刚石来源于其西南侧马山—四海山一带早前寒武纪结晶基底中的超镁铁质岩,这些超镁铁质岩形成于新太古代,元古宙末早前寒武纪结晶基底隆起、超镁铁质岩遭受剥蚀,少量金刚石沉积于寒武纪底部的李官组砾岩中;本溪组和三台组金刚石的分布和特征指示其源区为蒙阴金伯利岩,蒙阴金伯利岩形成于早—中奥陶世,金伯利岩形成之后发生的加里东运动和印支运动—早燕山运动造成鲁西中部的徂徕山—蒙山一带隆起,金伯利岩被抬升至地表遭受剥蚀,金刚石分别沉积于本溪组和三台组砾岩中;官庄群、白彦组、小埠岭组和于泉组中金刚石的分布和特征指示其源区也主要是蒙阴金伯利岩,新生代鲁西北部的徂徕山 蒙山隆起仍然处于强烈隆升状态,造成白彦组、小埠岭组和于泉组的金刚石富集区均分布于鲁西的南部区域。不同时代金刚石源区的地幔地球化学性状明显不同,华北陆块自太古宙至古元古代地幔源区的εNd( t )=+05~+4,指示上地幔处于弱亏损状态;鲁西金伯利岩的 ε Nd( t )值变化于-478~+276,暗示鲁西早古生代地幔总体处于弱富集状态;鲁西中生代镁铁质岩石的εNd( t )介于-92~-2121,说明地幔于中生代发生强烈富集。鲁西金伯利岩型金刚石原生矿源自于早古生代弱富集地幔。     

Ⅰa型褐色金刚石结构缺陷的同步辐射白光形貌特征

同步辐射白光形貌术具有射线强度大、准直性好、摄谱时间短、分辨率高等特点,是无损研究晶体缺陷的有效工具．采用该方法对产自山东蒙阴、辽宁瓦房店和湖南沅江3个矿区的31颗典型金刚石样品进行了研究．白光形貌像揭示,金刚石中普遍存在晶体结构畸变的特征,并且变形程度不等,部分严重变形晶体具有异常劳埃衍射式样;其衍射斑点的形态、衬度及条纹变化反映了金刚石晶体结构变形的程度和复杂性．晶格的完整性与金刚石的褐色强度无明显相关性．该类结构缺陷与金刚石的复杂形成过程和深部保存条件有关．     

湖南砂矿金刚石包裹体原位测试:对金刚石成因来源的启示

包裹体是探究矿物结晶生长过程及其地球化学环境的重要探针,是反演寄主矿物形成机制及形成环境的有效工具。本文采用显微激光拉曼光谱、电子探针和LA-ICP-MS技术对来自湖南沅水流域的24颗宝石级金刚石的包裹体进行了原位分析。结果显示,湖南砂矿金刚石中橄榄岩型和榴辉岩型包裹体比例接近,橄榄岩型和榴辉岩型包裹体可在同一颗金刚石中"共存";湖南金刚石形成时地幔的温度和压力分别为1109~1237℃和4.05~5.83 GPa,相应的形成深度大致为133~192 km;包裹体成分及组合特征显示,扬子克拉通金刚石的形成环境与华北克拉通金刚石有显著差异,前者的形成与榴辉岩的关系更为密切,暗示有古老的地壳物质参与了金刚石的形成过程。     

山东金刚石晶体中氮片晶的分布特征及其表面微形貌

为研究山东蒙阴金伯利岩型金刚石晶体中氮片晶的分布特征,采用红外光谱仪对116粒宝石级金刚石晶体样品中的氮片晶进行分析,并采用微分干涉显微镜观察氮片晶在金刚石表面所具有的物理化学性质及其表面微细结构。结果表明,80.2%的金刚石样品中具有氮片晶;在个别浅褐色、八面体金刚石样品{111}面上观察到平行于[100]晶带方向的长条状蚀像,这些蚀像相互平行,大小不等。显微红外光谱对具长条状蚀像的金刚石样品{111}面的测试结果表明,该类晶体均具有较强的氮片晶的吸收峰（1359~1375cm-1）。综合浅褐色、八面体金刚石样品的红外光谱及其表面微形貌特征,推测长条状蚀像是由氮片晶的出露点受优先选择性腐蚀而致。     

人造卡邦金刚石生长特性

人造卡邦金刚石生长受成压力、温度等条件的直接影响，从触媒金属向石墨中浸渍，石墨向金刚石结构转化、金刚石子晶生长三个方面讨论了人造卡邦金刚石的生长特性，根据人造卡邦金刚石生长规律，研究用不同的工艺方法，设计生长具有不同特点和用途的人造卡邦金刚石聚晶体。     

Mineral inclusions in diamonds from the Sputnik kimberlite pipe, Yakutia

The Sputnik kimberlite pipe is a small “satellite” of the larger Mir pipe in central Yakutia (Sakha), Russia. Study of 38 large diamonds (0.7-4.9 carats) showed that nine contain inclusions of the eclogitic paragenesis, while the remainder contain inclusions of the peridotitic paragenesis, or of uncertain paragenesis. The peridotitic inclusion suite comprises olivine, enstatite, Cr-diopside, chromite, Cr-pyrope garnet (both lherzolitic and harzburgitic), ilmenite, Ni-rich sulfide and a Ti-Cr-Fe-Mg-Sr-K phase of the lindsleyite-mathiasite (LIMA) series. The eclogitic inclusion suite comprises omphacite, garnet, Ni-poor sulfide, phlogopite and rutile. Peridotitic ilmenite inclusions have high Mg, Cr and Ni contents and high Nb/Zr ratios; they may be related to metasomatic ilmenites known from peridotite xenoliths in kimberlite. Eclogitic phlogopite is intergrown with omphacite, coexists with garnet, and has an unusually high TiO₂ content. Comparison with inclusions in diamonds from Mir shows general similarities, but differences in details of trace-element patterns. Large compositional variations among inclusions of one phase (olivine, garnet, chromite) within single diamonds indicate that the chemical environment of diamond crystallisation changed rapidly relative to diamond growth rates in many cases. P-T conditions of formation were calculated from multiphase inclusions and from trace element geothermobarometry of single inclusions. The geotherm at the time of diamond formation was near a 35 mW/m² conductive model; that is indistinguishable from the Paleozoic geotherm derived by studies of xenoliths and concentrate minerals from Mir. A range of Ni temperatures between garnet inclusions in single diamonds from both Mir and Sputnik suggests that many of the diamonds grew during thermal events affecting a relatively narrow depth range of the lithosphere, within the diamond stability field. The minor differences between inclusions in Mir and Sputnik may reflect lateral heterogeneity in the upper mantle.     

Olivine with diamond-imposed morphology included in diamonds. Syngenesis or protogenesis?

The identification of syngenetic inclusions in diamond (i.e. inclusions of minerals that crystallized at the same time and by the same genesis as their host) has long been of paramount importance in diamond studies. However, the widespread assumption that many or most inclusions in diamonds are syngenetic is based on qualitative morphological criteria and few direct measurements. In order to provide statistically significant information on inclusion–host genetic relations for at least one kimberlite, we have determined the crystallographic orientations of 43 olivine inclusions with diamond-imposed morphology, a feature generally interpreted to indicate syngenesis, in 20 diamonds from the Udachnaya kimberlite (Siberia). Our unprecedented large data set indicates no overall preferred orientation of these olivines in diamond. However, multiple inclusions within a single diamond frequently exhibit similar orientations, implying that they were derived from original single monocrystals. Therefore, regardless of the possible chemical re-equilibration during diamond-forming processes, at least some of the olivines may have existed prior to the diamond (i.e. they are protogenetic). Our results imply that a diamond-imposed morphology alone cannot be considered as unequivocal proof of syngenicity of mineral inclusions in diamonds.     

博茨瓦纳和中国含金刚石金伯利岩的地质特征及对寻找类似岩体的启示

金刚石及其寄主岩石是人类认识地球深部物质组成和性质、壳幔和核幔物质循环重要研究对象。本文总结了中国不同金刚石类型的分布,着重对比了博茨瓦纳和中国含金刚石金伯利岩的地质特征,取得如下认识:(1)博茨瓦纳含矿原生岩石仅为金伯利岩,而中国含矿岩石成分复杂,金伯利岩主要出露在华北克拉通,展布于郯庐、华北中央和华北北缘金伯利岩带,具有工业价值的蒙阴和瓦房店矿床分布于郯庐金伯利岩带中;钾镁煌斑岩主要出露在华南克拉通,重点分布在江南和华南北缘钾镁煌斑岩带中;(2)钙钛矿原位U-Pb年龄和Sr、Nd同位素显示,86～97 Ma奥拉帕金伯利岩群和456～470 Ma蒙阴和瓦房店金伯利岩均具有低87Sr/86Sr(0.703～0.705)和中等εNd(t)(-0.09～+5)特征,指示金伯利岩浆源自弱亏损地幔或初始地幔源区;(3)博茨瓦纳金伯利岩体绝大多数以岩筒产出,而中国以脉状为主岩筒次之;博茨瓦纳岩筒绝大部分为火山口相,中国均为根部相,岩筒地表面积普遍小于前者;(4)奥拉帕A/K1和朱瓦能金伯利岩体是世界上为数不多的主要产出榴辉岩捕虏体和E型金刚石的岩筒之一,而同位于奥拉帕岩群的莱特拉卡内、丹姆沙和卡罗韦岩体与我国郯庐带的金伯利岩体类似,均主要产出地幔橄榄岩捕虏体以及P型和E型金刚石;(5)寻找含矿金伯利岩重点注意以下几点:克拉通内部和周缘深大断裂带是重要的控岩构造;镁铝榴石、镁钛铁矿、铬透辉石、铬尖晶石和铬金红石等是寻找含金刚石金伯利岩重要的指示矿物;航磁等地球物理测量需与土壤取样找矿方法相结合才能取得更好效果;(6)郯庐金伯利岩带、江南钾镁煌斑岩带和塔里木地块是中国重要含矿岩石的找矿靶区,冲积型金刚石成矿潜力巨大。     

中国金刚石资源分布及开发利用现状

为全面了解中国金刚石资源的矿床类型、资源分布特点、储量以及开发利用现状,以期对金刚石矿资源勘查及开发利用有所裨益。采用野外实地考察、文献检索与专家咨询相结合的方法,对我国金刚石资源进行了综合分析整理。结果显示,我国金刚石矿床主要有金伯利岩型原生金刚石矿床和冲积型金刚石砂矿床。原生金刚石矿床最为重要,主要分布于华北克拉通的辽宁瓦房店和山东蒙阴,其次是湖南沅水流域的金刚石砂矿床。中国金刚石产地的勘查和开发利用程度较高,优质金刚石资源已近枯竭,目前可供开发的矿产地有限,找矿突破迫在眉睫。     

Enigmatic diamonds in Archean calc-alkaline lamprophyres of Wawa, southern Ontario, Canada

A suite of 80 macrodiamonds recovered from volcaniclastic breccia of Wawa (southern Ontario) was characterized on the basis of morphology, nitrogen content and aggregation, cathodoluminescence (CL), and mineral inclusions. The host calc-alkaline lamprophyric breccias were emplaced at 2.68–2.74 Ga, contemporaneously with voluminous bimodal volcanism of the Michipicoten greenstone belt. The studied suite of diamonds differs from the vast majority of diamond suites found worldwide. First, the suite is hosted by calc-alkaline lamprophyric volcanics rather than by kimberlite or lamproite. Second, the host volcanic rock is amongst the oldest known diamondiferous rocks on Earth, and has experienced regional metamorphism and deformation. Finally, most diamonds show yellow-orange-red CL and contain mineral inclusions not in equilibrium with each other or their host diamond. The majority of the diamonds in the Wawa suite are colorless, weakly resorbed, octahedral single crystals and aggregates. The diamonds contain 0–740 ppm N and show two modes of N aggregation at 0–30 and 60–95% B-centers suggesting mantle storage at 1,100–1,170°C. Cathodoluminescence and FTIR spectroscopy shows that emission peaks present in orange CL stones do not likely result from irradiation or single substitutional N, in contrast to other diamonds with red CL. The diamonds contain primary inclusions of olivine (Fo₉₂ and Fo₈₉), omphacite, orthopyroxene (En₉₃), pentlandite, albite, and An-rich plagioclase. These peridotitic and eclogitic minerals are commonly found within single diamonds in a mixed paragenesis which also combines shallow and deep phases. This apparent disequilibrium can be explained by effective small-scale mixing of subducted oceanic crust and mantle rocks in fast “cold” plumes ascending from the top of the slabs in convergent margins. Alternatively, the diamonds could have formed in the pre-2.7–2.9 Ga cratonic mantle and experienced subsequent alteration of syngenetic inclusions related to host magmatism and ensuing metamorphism. Neither orogenic nor cratonic model of the diamond origin fully explains all of the observed characteristics of the diamonds and their host rocks. Electronic Supplementary Material Supplementary material is available for this article at and is accessible for authorized users.     

Diamonds and their mineral inclusions from the A154 South pipe, Diavik Diamond Mine, Northwest territories, Canada

Mineral inclusions recovered from 100 diamonds from the A154 South kimberlite (Diavik Diamond Mines, Central Slave Craton, Canada) indicate largely peridotitic diamond sources (83%), with a minor (12%) eclogitic component. Inclusions of ferropericlase (4%) and diamond in diamond (1%) represent “undetermined” parageneses.

Compared to inclusions in diamonds from the Kaapvaal Craton, overall higher CaO contents (2.6 to 6.0 wt.%) of harzburgitic garnets and lower Mg-numbers (90.6 to 93.6) of olivines indicate diamond formation in a chemically less depleted environment. Peridotitic diamonds at A154 South formed in an exceptionally Zn-rich environment, with olivine inclusions containing more than twice the value (of  52 ppm) established for normal mantle olivine. Harzburgitic garnet inclusions generally have sinusoidal rare earth element (REE_N) patterns, enriched in LREE and depleted in HREE. A single analyzed lherzolitic garnet is re-enriched in middle to heavy REE resulting in a “normal” REE_N pattern. Two of the harzburgitic garnets have “transitional” REE_N patterns, broadly similar to that of the lherzolitic garnet. Eclogitic garnet inclusions have normal REE_N patterns similar to eclogitic garnets worldwide but at lower REE concentrations.

Carbon isotopic values (δ¹³C) range from − 10.5‰ to + 0.7‰, with 94% of diamonds falling between − 6.3‰ and − 4.0‰. Nitrogen concentrations range from below detection (< 10 ppm) to 3800 ppm and aggregation states cover the entire spectrum from poorly aggregated (Type IaA) to fully aggregated (Type IaB). Diamonds without evidence of previous plastic deformation (which may have accelerated nitrogen aggregation) typically have < 25% of their nitrogen in the fully aggregated B-centres. Assuming diamond formation beneath the Central Slave to have occurred in the Archean [Westerlund, K.J., Shirey, S.B., Richardson, S.H., Gurney, J.J., Harris, J.W., 2003b. Re–Os systematics of diamond inclusion sulfides from the Panda kimberlite, Slave craton. VIIIth International Kimberlite Conference, Victoria, Canada, Extended Abstracts, 5p.], such low aggregation states indicate mantle residence at fairly low temperatures (< 1100 °C). Geothermometry based on non-touching inclusion pairs, however, indicates diamond formation at temperatures around 1200 °C. To reconcile inclusion and nitrogen based temperature estimates, cooling by about 100–200 °C shortly after diamond formation is required.     

The first finding of graphite inclusion in diamond from mantle rocks: The result of the study of eclogite xenolith from Udachnaya pipe (Siberian craton)

A xenolith of eclogite from the kimberlite pipe Udachnaya–East, Yakutia Grt+Cpx+Ky + S + Coe/Qtz + Dia + Gr has been studied. Graphite inclusions in diamond have been studied in detail by Confocal Raman (CR) mapping. The graphite inclusion in diamond has a highly ordered structure and is characterized by a substantial shift in the band (about 1580 cm^–1) by 7 cm^–1, indicating a significant residual strain in the inclusion. According to the results of FTIR spectroscopic studies of diamond crystals, a high degree of nitrogen aggregation has been detected: it is present mainly in form A, which means an “ancient” age of the diamonds. In the xenolith studied, the diamond formation occurred about 1 Byr, long before their transport by the kimberlite melt, and the conditions of the final equilibrium were temperatures of 1020 ± 40°C at 4.7 GPa. Thus, these graphite inclusions found in a diamond are the first evidence of crystallization of metastable graphite in a diamond stability field. They were formed in rocks of the upper mantle significantly below (≥20 km) the graphite-diamond equilibrium line.     

Results of study of crystallographic orientation of olivine and diamond from Udachnaya kimberlite pipe,Yakutia

The crystallographic orientation of three diamonds and 19 olivine inclusions from Udachnaya kimberlite pipe was studied using monocrystal X-ray diffractometry. No epitaxial olivine inclusions were found.     

Origin of sub-lithospheric diamonds from the Juina-5 kimberlite (Brazil): constraints from carbon isotopes and inclusion compositions

Forty-one diamonds sourced from the Juina-5 kimberlite pipe in Southern Brazil, which contain optically identifiable inclusions, have been studied using an integrated approach. The diamonds contain <20 ppm nitrogen (N) that is fully aggregated as B centres. Internal structures in several diamonds revealed using cathodoluminescence (CL) are unlike those normally observed in lithospheric samples. The majority of the diamonds are composed of isotopically light carbon, and the collection has a unimodal distribution heavily skewed towards δ¹³C ~ ?25 ‰. Individual diamonds can display large carbon isotope heterogeneity of up to ~15 ‰ and predominantly have isotopically lighter cores displaying blue CL, and heavier rims with green CL. The light carbon isotopic compositions are interpreted as evidence of diamond growth from abiotic organic carbon added to the oceanic crust during hydrothermal alteration. The bulk isotopic composition of the oceanic crust, carbonates plus organics, is equal to the composition of mantle carbon (?5 ‰), and we suggest that recycling/mixing of subducted material will replenish this reservoir over geological time. Several exposed, syngenetic inclusions have bulk compositions consistent with former eclogitic magnesium silicate perovskite, calcium silicate perovskite and NAL or CF phases that have re-equilibrated during their exhumation to the surface. There are multiple occurrences of majoritic garnet with pyroxene exsolution, coesite with and without kyanite exsolution, clinopyroxene, Fe or Fe-carbide and sulphide minerals alongside single occurrences of olivine and ferropericlase. As a group, the inclusions have eclogitic affinity and provide evidence for diamond formation at pressures extending to Earth’s deep transition zone and possibly the lower mantle. It is observed that the major element composition of inclusions and isotopic compositions of host Juina-5 diamonds are not correlated. The diamond and inclusion compositions are intimately related to subducted material and record a polybaric growth history across a depth interval stretching from the lower mantle to the base of the lithosphere. It is suggested that the interaction of slab-derived melts and mantle material combined with subsequent upward transport in channelised networks or a buoyant diapir explains the formation of Juina-5 diamonds. We conclude that these samples, despite originating at great mantle depths, do not provide direct information about the ambient mantle, instead, providing a snapshot of the Earth’s deep carbon cycle.