enow.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: diavik diamond mine job opportunities

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Diavik Diamond Mine - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diavik_Diamond_Mine

    The mine is owned by a joint venture between the Rio Tinto Group (60%) and Dominion Diamond Corporation (40%), and is operated by Yellowknife-based Diavik Diamond Mines Inc., a subsidiary of Rio Tinto Group. Commercial production commenced in 2003, and the lifespan of the mine is expected to be 16 to 22 years.

  3. Lac de Gras kimberlite field - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac_de_Gras_kimberlite_field

    The Eocene (ca. 55-50 Ma) age diatremes of the Lac de Gras kimberlite field support two world-class diamond mines called Ekati and Diavik. [2] Ekati, Canada's first diamond mine, [3] has produced 40,000,000 carats (8,000 kg) of diamonds out of six open pits between 1998 and 2008, [3] while Diavik to the southeast has produced 35,400,000 carats ...

  4. Rio Tinto (corporation) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Tinto_(corporation)

    Rio Tinto Diamonds operates two diamond mines: the Diavik Diamond Mine in the Northwest Territories of Canada (60% ownership) and the Murowa diamond mine located in Zimbabwe (78% ownership). Together, these two mines produce 20% of the world's annual production of rough diamonds, [88] making Rio Tinto the world's third-largest producer of mined ...

  5. Lac de Gras - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac_de_Gras

    Lac de Gras was the centre of the diamond rush of the 1990s. There are two working, and one closed, diamond mines in the area, Diavik Diamond Mine, Ekati Diamond Mine, and the care and maintenance Snap Lake Diamond Mine. [2] [3] It was called Ekati by aboriginal peoples.

  6. Canadian diamonds - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_diamonds

    The Diavik Diamond Mine is a diamond mine in Lac de Gras, Slave Craton, located about 300 km northeast of Yellowknife. [citation needed] Canada's second mine, first opened in January 2003, is one of the largest open pit diamond mines in the world (according to production) and currently produces around 8 million carats annually.

  7. Tibbitt to Contwoyto Winter Road - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibbitt_to_Contwoyto...

    Another gold mine, the Salmita Mine (operated between 1983 and 1987) also benefited from this ice road. Until 1998, the road was licensed and operated by Echo Bay Mines, owners of the Lupin Mine, after which it became a joint venture between Echo Bay Mines, BHP Billiton, and Diavik Diamond Mines. [4] The defunct Jericho Diamond Mine, Nunavut ...

  8. Diavik - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diavik

    Diavik Airport, that serves the Diavik Diamond Mine This page was last edited on 28 December 2019, at 07:04 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...

  9. List of diamond mines - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diamond_mines

    There are a limited number of commercially available diamond mines currently operating in the world, with the 50 largest mines accounting for approximately 90% of global supply. [1] Diamonds are also mined alluvially over disperse areas, where diamonds have been eroded out of the ground, deposited, and concentrated by water or weather action.

  1. Ads

    related to: diavik diamond mine job opportunities