A new study by an interdisciplinary team of researchers used seismic technology (the same kind used to measure earthquakes) to estimate that a quadrillion tons of diamonds lie deep below the Earth's surface.
Seismic technology uses sound waves to make measurements, because their speeds change depending on the composition, temperature and density of the rocks and minerals they're traveling through.
It appears there are deposits of diamonds sitting about 90 to 150 miles below the Earth's surface, much deeper than current mining machinery allows. The only other mining operation near this size of an operation is the Mir Diamond Mine in Russia, which is the world's second-largest human-made hole and only goes about a third of a mile deep.
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