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Stornoway Diamond president and CEO Eira Thomas (right) prepares core for transport from the Aviat diamond property on the Melville Peninsula in Nunavut.

High-interest source eludes Churchill JV

Despite discovering 17 new kimberlite bodies during the 2005 spring and summer drilling campaign at the Churchill project in eastern Nunavut, disappointing microdiamond results illustrate the fact tha…



De Beers does BEE deal

Anglo American (AAUK-Q) unit De Beers has reached a deal with South African group Ponahalo Investment Holdings to sell a 26% share in the diamond group’s South Af…



De Beers does its BEE deal

Anglo American (AAUK-Q) unit De Beers has reached a deal with South African group Ponahalo Investment Holdings to s…




Drilling on the Fort  la Corne Joint Venture in north-central Saskatchewan. Inset: Core from the 148 kimberlite body.

Shore Gold and Kensington to merge

By agreeing to merge and consolidate their respective holdings in the Fort la Corne diamond district of Saskatchewan, management of both Shore Gold (SGF-T) and Kensington…



Ontario's Northern Development and Mines Minister Rick Bartolucci (left) with Assistant Deputy Mines Minister John Gammon at the opening of the John B. Gammon Geoscience Library, named in honour of Gammon, who will retire Aug. 31. During his 16 years in office, the affable Gammon established the Willet Green Miller Centre in Sudbury as a centre of geoscience excellence and helped raise Ontario's international mining profile.

Manitoba promotes exploration incentives

Vancouver — Manitoba is pulling out the stops to lure more mining and exploration companies to the province. In a recent cross-country tour, government officials offered generous exploration incentiv…


A recent aerial photo of De Beers' Gahcho Ku diamond exploration camp in the Northwest Territories, 275 km northeast of Yellowknife. The project centres on the Kennady Lake cluster of five diamond-bearing pipes.

De Beers pulls plug on Kimberley mines

Faced with the challenges of finding new profitable carats to meet growing demand, De Beers is closing some of its mature, money-losing mines in South Africa, while it looks to Cana…


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