Lake Ellen Kimberlite the material, though few are of gem quality and size. While there was considerable interest in diamond exploration in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and northern Wisconsin for several years, no diamonds of commercial interest have been found. Lake Ellen Kimberlite The Lake Ellen Kimberlite is a poorly exposed volcanic breccia located about northeast of Crystal Falls in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The first publication in 1981 describing the feature led to speculation that this or similar kimberlites in the area might have been the source of the diamonds discovered a century before in Wisconsin as well as a period of
Gemstone (database) of VMware, announced it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire GemStone. On May 2, 2013, GemTalk Systems acquired the GemStone/S platform from Pivotal Software (the EMC and VMware spin-off).. Gemfire remained with Pivotal's Big Data division. The product is available standalone but is also integrated into its Cloud Foundry PaaS as "Pivotal Cloud Cache". GemStone builds on the programming language Smalltalk. GemStone systems serve as mission-critical applications. GemStone frameworks still see some interest for web services and service-oriented architectures. A recent revival of interest in Smalltalk has occurred as a result of its use to generate JavaScript for