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International kimberlite conferences (IKCs) are special events that are held across the world once in four to five years. IKC is the confluence platform for academicians, scientists and industrial personnel concerned with diamond exploration and exploitation, petrology, geochemistry, geochronology, geophysics and origin of the primary diamond host rocks and their entrained xenoliths and xenocrysts (including diamond) to get together and deliberate on new advances in research made in the intervening years. Ever since the organization of first IKC in 1973 and its tremendous success the entire geological world eagerly look forward to subsequent such conferences with great enthusiasm and excitement since the scientific emanations from IKCs continue to make significant impact on our understanding of the composition, nature and evolution of the planet we live on. The sixth international kimberlite conference was held at Novosibirsk, the largest city in Siberian Russia, in 1995. A great deal of information on the Russian kimberlites and diamonds became available for the first time to the outside world through the extended abstracts published by the United Institute of Geology, Geophysics and Mineralogy, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy. During the 6-th Intern. kimberlite conference the following themes were discussed: - kimberlite geology and economics; - kimberlite petrology; - diamond origin, etc