The Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board has recommended development of the Snap Lake underground diamond project, following a 14-month assessment.Upon approval by the federal minister o…
Although the De Beers name is inevitably associated with polished diamonds and diamond jewelry, its core business remains the exploration for, and mining and marketing of, rough diamond gems.In 2002, …
The Canadian exploration arm of De Beers has entered into an option agreement with Toronto-based Pele Mountain Resources (GEM-V) at the latter’s 100-sq.-km Festival diamond property, 25 km north of Wa…
Diamonds North Resources (DDN-V) has returned to Victoria Island in Nunavut, hoping to build on last year’s diamond exploration program, in which 11 kimberlite bodies and showings were found.This year…
The diamond hunt is exploding with new kimberlite discoveries beyond the Slave Craton in Canada’s Far North. Recent discoveries are reported near Rankin Inlet and on the Melville Peninsula in eastern …
Although Saskatchewan kimberlites carry much lower grades than those being mined in the Canadian Arctic, the sheer size of the Fort la Corne kimberlites renders them highly attractive targets.The Fo…
Out of working capital and with no hope its subsidiaries will resume operations, marine diamond miner Namibian Minerals is heading into permanent dry dock as liquidators sell off the company’s assets….
Drilling on a property held by Geodex Minerals (GXM-V) in the Lac de Gras region of the Northwest Territories has determined that a prominent circular magnetic feature was not caused by a kimberlite i…
The Gahcho Kue diamond project in the Northwest Territories is remaining on the back burner after an updated desktop study by De Beers failed to meet a critical 15% internal rate of return required to…
Having demonstrated the commercial potential of the Renard group of kimberlitic bodies in north-central Quebec by recovering large diamonds at encouraging grades, Ashton Mining of Canada (ACA-T) and p…
Drilling by the Canadian exploration division of De Beers has encountered kimberlite intersections on the Kelvin and Faraday bodies, north of the Kennady Lake cluster, at the Gahcho Kue joint venture …
Better known for red-cloaked Masai tribesmen and big game safaris, the United Republic of Tanzania is actually a phenomenally mineral-rich land.Formerly known as British East Africa, and German East A…
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