Ophiolitic chromitites are traditionally considered as the products of melt-mantle interaction in the supra-subduction zone after partial melting of mantle peridotites during upwelling of asthenosphere at oceanic spreading centers.The occurrence of natural diamonds in situ in chromitites and peridotites in southern Tibet(Yang et al.,2013;Griffin Ophiolitic chromitites are traditionally considered as the products of melt-mantle interaction in the supra-subduction zone after partial melting of mantle peridotites during upwelling of asthenosphere at oceanic spreading centers. The occurrence of natural diamonds in situ in chromitites and peridotites in southern Tibet (Yang et al., 2013; Griffin