Kennady eager to build on proven potential
KELVIN CAMP, NORTHWEST TERRITORIES — Kennady Diamonds (TSXV: KDI) has already tripled early targets at Kennady North, Canada’s most advanced diamond exploration project — and there’s an eagerness to get…
Articles by Alisha Hiyate
Exploring for more: Diamonds in Canada’s annual junior roundup
Alto Ventures (TSXV: ATV) In February, Alto Ventures began a reverse-circulation drilling program to test several kimberlite targets at the GEFA project, in east-central Saskatchewan. The targets were identified in…
Manitoba diamond discovery stirs interest
Following up on an initial diamond discovery in Manitoba from 2008, a group of prospectors working with the Manitoba Geological Suvey (MGS) has found diamonds in the Knee Lake area…
Five reasons diamond stocks have been dragging
In the first quarter of 2017, a market-cap weighted aggregation of diamond miners in U.S. dollars including Alrosa (RTS: ALRS), Petra Diamonds (LSE: PDL), Dominion Diamond (TSX: DDC; NYSE: DDC),…
Stornoway Diamond deals with Renard hiccups
Stornoway Diamond (TSX: SWY) had an exceptionally smooth build at its Renard mine, in Quebec, which was completed five months ahead of schedule and under budget by $37 million. Renard…
A changing landscape: Diamonds in Canada Editorial
Outside of the two new mines opening up in Canada — Stornoway Diamond’s Renard and De Beers and Mountain Province Diamonds’ Gahcho Kué — there hasn’t been a lot to…
Gahcho Kué achieves commercial production
Seven months after turning out its first diamonds last August, De Beers and Mountain Province Diamonds’ (TSX: MPVD; NASDAQ: MPVD) Gahcho Kué mine in the Northwest Territories began commercial production…
Dominion Diamond explores options after takeover approach
It’s been an eventful year for Dominion Diamond (TSX: DDC; NYSE: DDC), with the company receiving an unsolicited takeover approach in February, shortly after CEO Brendan Bell announced his resignation…
Could microbes hold the key to more environmentally friendly mines?
Bioremediation became a buzzword for the Canadian mining industry in the 1970s and ’80s. Today, researchers at the University of Toronto’s Lassonde Institute of Mining are coming up with the…
Barrick taps Cisco for digital reinvention
When it introduced its Mine of the Future program in 2008, Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO) introduced automated machinery, remote operations centres and data analytics into an industry that has a…
Electric vehicles graduate from ‘science project’ status
Since 2011, Artisan Vehicle Systems has provided battery-powered vehicles for the mining sector by retrofitting diesel-powered equipment made by other manufacturers, such as Atlas Copco. The California-based company makes electric…
Green future for Goldcorp at Borden Lake
VANCOUVER — International miner Goldcorp (TSX: G; NYSE: GG) has partnered with technology firm Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology to make its Borden Lake gold project near Chapleau, Ont., the…