The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of Russia named the largest diamond deposits in the country

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of Russia, in a conversation with RIA Novosti, revealed the largest diamond deposits in the country.

“Russia’s largest diamond deposits are concentrated in the Republic of Sakha, where three main kimberlite pipes are located,” the ministry said.

The richest diamond reserve is the Mir pipe, which contains 194.1 million carats, which is 20.5 percent of all reserves in Russia.

Second place goes to the Udachnaya pipe, which contains 179.6 million carats of diamonds (19 percent of all in the country), and in third place is the Yubileinaya pipe, with reserves of 95 million carats.

If we talk about deposits outside of Yakutia, then, according to representatives of the Ministry of Natural Resources, the largest is located in the Arkhangelsk region - the deposit named after Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov. Its reserves amount to 52.2 million carats.