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Gamma rays used to find diamonds

Marc Howe | October 09, 2012 | 5:54 am Education Africa Europe Diamond 

The University of Johannesburg has successfully registered patents for a new device which is capable of identifying rocks that contain diamonds. Business Day reports that the MineralPET machine employs techniques applied in nuclear medicine to determine whether diamonds are present...

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