Diamond Diver Traditional Cache
Wild Team: Owner and building is gone
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Here you will meet a very interesting art loving Diamond Diver that will teach you more about how diamonds are harvested from the bottom of the sea.
George's humble and vibey little property is filled with art that he builds in his spare time. A wonderfull location with a beautifull view. If George is maybe diving, feel free to do the cache. We have his permission.
About The Diamond
A diamond is an allotrope of carbon. It’s the material with the highest hardness and thermal conductivity which was ever found on earth. The optical qualities of diamonds are also worth remarking. Because of its extremely rigid lattice, it can be contaminated by very few types of impurities. This and the wide transparency will lead to the clear, colourless appearance of most natural diamonds. Diamonds also has relatively high optical dispersion. That means that the material is able to disperse light of different colours, which results in its characteristic luster.
Diamonds came to existence deep in the earth's crust. If there were carbon-containing minerals, a very high temperature and incredibly high pressure a diamond will be formed over periods from 1 billion to 3.3 billion years. As magma works its way to the surface of our earth through deep fractures it sometimes traps diamonds within it. The magma cooled down and formed rock-pipes that contain this precious stones. These eruptions didn’t take long, but they were more powerful than volcanic eruptions in these days. The magma in these eruptions originated at depths of at least 150 km, three times deeper than the magma source for volcanoes like Mount St. Helens.
Numerous pipes have been found on the Kaapvaal Craton (a continental plate), which extends through parts of South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe. The majority of these pipes were formed between 125 and 80 million years ago.
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Va gur fuvcf uhyy.
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