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Scientists may not have thought this but diamonds are not as rare as they are considered to be. Researchers at John Hopkins University foresee that the earth's deep crust may actually be littered with diamonds. So far, the scientists believed that the diamonds could only be created by either of the two ways - through the methane oxidation or reduction of carbon dioxide chemically inside the moving fluids. Since both these circumstances require very unique and specific set of geochemical circumstances, diamonds were thought to be unique and rare, hence the value, says UPI

However, the new study published in the Journal Nature Communications suggest that diamonds do not exactly need such complex circumstances to form. In fact, they can form through a much simpler process. The researchers used chemical models to show that the diamonds can also be formed as water slowly takes acidic shape by moving from one rock formation to the other one. The Study author, Dmitri A. Sverjensky, a geochemist at John Hopkins said in a press release that, "The more people look, the more they're finding diamonds in different rock types now. I think everybody would agree there's more and more environments of diamond formation being discovered."

Needless to say, this new scenario required for the diamond formation will need intense pressure and extreme temperatures just like the traditional methods, that can only be found deep inside the earth's mantle. This is the reason why Sverjensky doesn't think that his nee research is of any threat to the current diamond's market. The diamonds that are accessible right now are possible due to the eruption of magma that push the diamonds out of the earth's deep crust towards the surface. He says that even if there are too many diamonds down there, they will not be making an appearance anytime soon, reports UPI