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Diavik Diamond Mine is an industrial complex set in a remote, subarctic landscape. It consists of four kimberlite pipes associated with the Lac de Gras kimberlite field and is located on an island 20 km 2 (7.7 sq mi) in Lac de Gras informally known as East Island.
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 ...
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, Canada. The mine site (buildings and fuel tank farm) is visible in the background behind the open pit.
An unknown number of people are dead after a plane crashed on its route to a diamond mine in Canada's Northwest Territories, according to police.. The airplane reportedly crashed near Fort Smith ...
Diamond company Harry Winston Diamond Corp. (NYSE: HWD) has agreed to purchase the Ekati diamond mine from the Canadian subsidiary of BHP Billiton PLC (NYSE: BHP) for $500 million. BHP owns 80% of ...
A. ^ Harry Winston Diamond Mines owns 40% and Diavik Diamond Mines, which is 100% owned by the Rio Tinto, owns 60%. B. ^ Dominion Diamond Corporation owns 88.9% while Charles Fipke and Stewart Blusson each own 10%. C. ^ Mountain Province Diamonds owns 44%, De Beers Canada 51% and Camphor Ventures 4.9% D. ^ Pine Point and Port Radium are ghost ...
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.
Four passengers and two crew members were killed when a plane headed to a diamond mine crashed in Canada’s Northwest Territories, authorities said Wednesday.