Role of mineral-indicators under prospecting of diamond placers in the Urals

Abstract

The mineral-indicators of kimberlite diamonds (pyropes, chromeshpinelides, picroilmenite, and others) are very often met in the Cenozoic placers and intermediate collectors in the western slope of the Urals. The author of the article supposes the presence of their mother rocks (kimberlites) in the eastern frontier areas of the Volga-Urals Shield. So mineral-indicators may be used as indicators of diamond quantity in placers during their prospecting.