![]() ![]() Yet Fipke and friends have unearthed what may be a whole cluster. ![]() Until now, not one major pipe has been discovered in the Western Hemisphere. Rich diamond veins, called pipes, are so difficult to find that only 15 major ones are known, and they're all in Africa, Siberia, and Australia. Once again he was digging ore from the belly of his own personal beast-the innards of an ancient diamond-bearing volcano. Then he dropped it into his battered brown backpack and turned to go. With a hammer, he cracked out a fist-size chunk of gray rock, shoved it into the beam of his helmet lamp, and eyeballed it with an intense scowl. In the rocky Barren Lands of Canada's Northwest Territories, where you can go a thousand miles without seeing a road or tree, Charles Fipke was standing a few months back in ankle-deep mud at the face of a mine 700 feet below the bed of a small lake.
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