Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Bearing or yielding diamonds.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Diamond-producing: as, diamondiferous earth; a diamondiferous country; diamantiferous.
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- adjective mineralogy Yielding
diamond .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Aggressive discovery, exploration and development programs established an economic reserve of mineable diamondiferous kimberlite ore, but before we could mine the company had to develop its own recovery process.
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Once they had located an apparently intact diamondiferous kimberlite deposit the prospectors formed a joint venture with BHP Billiton to evaluate and as luck turned out to eventually mine the diamonds.
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As diamonds in the Ekati kimberlites are only present at 1/5 of a gram per tonne, the geologist used more prolific diamond indicator minerals, like G-10 garnets and chrome minerals to point the way to diamondiferous pipes.
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The impoverished community is seeking the return of 85,000 hectares of diamondiferous land on the North Cape coast of which it was dispossessed in the 1900s, plus up to R2. 5 billion in compensation for gems taken out by Alexkor and the environmental damage the parastatal has inflicted on the area.
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Firestone Diamonds plc and De Beers have signed two joint venture agreements involving looking for diamonds across 5000 sq km of Botswana in countryside considered highly prospective for hosting diamondiferous kimberlite.
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"Much of the area covered by the Orapa and Jwaneng prospecting licences has never been fully explored using modern geophysical exploration techniques, and is considered to be highly prospective for the discovery of new diamondiferous kimberlites," the companies said.
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"Before a machine will allow itself to be opened by a technician, it will purge itself of all diamondiferous material," Rausch said.
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They made trip after trip, digging out pits on Goldie's future landholding, seeding them with diamondiferous matrix and returning for another load.
Time Scout Asprin, Robert 1995
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On first acquaintance it appears to be surrounded by redoubts or forts, being dotted with mounds of greyish slag, technically called "tailings," which represent the refuse soil from which the diamondiferous ore has been extracted.
South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 Louis Creswicke
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In the bed of these rivers, in places where they have not yet been worked, there may be found, underneath a stratum of modern sand, another of rocks, and finally a diamondiferous deposit of rounded pebbles, mixed with sand.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 Various
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