Kimberlite Diamond (brand) In April 2016, Kimberley Diamonds donated 600,000 Yuan to three impoverished students from less well-to-do families in Henan, China. Kimberlite Diamond is also sponsor to the first season of the Chinese variety show, Go Fighting!. Kimberlite Diamond opened its first store in Mainland China on May 18, 1995. In 1999, Kimberlite Diamond opened its 100th store. In 2000, Shanghai Kimberlite Diamond Co., Ltd has formed and in May of the same year, the first store opened in Shanghai. In 2009, Shanghai Kimberlite Diamond became the official partner of the 2010 Shanghai Expo Belgium-EU Pavilion. It also become the licensed manufacturer
Elliott County Kimberlite Elliott County Kimberlite The Elliott County Kimberlite (Sometimes called the Ison Creek Kimberlite) was discovered in Elliott County, Kentucky, by Albert R. Crandall in 1884 over two years before Carvill Lewis named a similar porphyritic peridotite occurring near Kimberley, South Africa, a kimberlite. It occurs as three separate elongate intrusive bodies 1/4 to 1/2 mi in length and a few hundred feet in width, within an area of about a square mile. The rock is a dark-green peridotite (kimberlite) composed of serpentinized olivine and a number of accessory minerals, including phlogopite, pyrope, calcite, enstatite, magnesian ilmenite, and others. Xenoliths, mainly