Diatreme Resources Limited (ASX:DRX) is an emerging Australian producer of mineral sands.
(2007): Cenozoic
diatreme field in Chubut (Argentina) as evidence of phreatomagmatic volcanism accompanied with extensive Patagonian plateau basal volcanism?
The resulting
diatreme is a funnel-shaped crater filled in deep by breccia of original country rock "fluffed up" with the explosion.
This style of breccia is often referred to as
diatreme breccia.
While the source
diatreme for Ripple Lake Diamonds' initial sample was a mere three-by-three metres and did not have any real financial significance on its own, the discovery is credited for leapfrogging the company's progress.
- the mineralisation at Nevera continues past NEV028, and that NEV028 was drilled in an area that was either faulted away or disrupted by a
diatreme.
The year 2006 was the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the discovery of diamonds in the Prairie Creek
diatreme near Murfreesboro, Arkansas by John Huddleston, a local pig farmer.
The Kelsey Lake kimberlites, a cluster of eight diamondiferous pipes, form a group of irregular shaped pipes and fissures consisting largely of multiphase blows of
diatreme facies kimberlite, with extensions and minor phases of hypabyssal-facies kimberlite.