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    Russia Reveals Enormous Diamond Supply, Could Shake Up Spectacularly Rigged Market For Shiny Rocks

    Russia has revealed a secret it has been sitting on since before the Cold War ended. No, it's not an army of cybernetic supermen driven by hatred of capitalism and rapidly degrading plutonium power cores, though that would be kind of awesome. Also kind of awesome, though, is the country is sitting on one of the largest diamond fields ever discovered, a 62-mile-wide cache of the stones situated beneath the Siberian crater known as the Popigai Astroblem and containing an estimated 1 trillion carats worth of diamonds.

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