Bill MinarikSep 6, 2025

Leucite has a range of volcanic hills named after it, see:
https://www.geowyo.com/leucite-hills.html

These are strange, high potassium lamproites from the mantle, only 1-2 million years old.

Match that, organic goo #carpathite !

Students at Smith College have a nice page of #leucite thin section images:
https://www.science.smith.edu/geosciences/petrology/petrography/leucite/leucite.html

#MinCup25 #SmithCollege #Wyoming #Lamproite #OrganicGoo

Matt WillemsenSep 21, 2023
To form pink diamonds, build and destroy a supercontinent
Most of the world’s pink diamonds may have emerged from the breakup of the supercontinent Nuna
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/pink-diamonds-build-destroy-supercontinent #Pink #Diamonds #Nuna #supercontinent #breakup #ArgyleMine #australia #lamproite
To form pink diamonds, build and destroy a supercontinent

The Argyle deposit in Australia formed about 1.3 billion years ago, a study shows, along a rift zone that sundered the supercontinent Nuna.

Science News