Kennecott ups diamond search at Rockinghorse
While Tahera (TAH-T) awaits details of next year’s budget for the Rockinghorse project in the Coronation Gulf diamond district of Nunavut, its joint-venture partner, Kennecott Canada Exploration, is c…
Tahera Diamond Corporation
Fording courts suitors to thwart Sherritt takeover
The Toronto Stock Exchange Composite Index slipped 70.37 points to end the Nov. 6-12 report period at 6,329.27.The TSE’s gold index was up 5.39 points, partly on the back of a US$5.70-gain in the pric…
Summer work in NWT yields new crop of kimberlites
More than a decade after diamonds were first found in Canada’s Far North, new discoveries of kimberlite continue to be reported in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.An autumn drilling program on t…
Dummett killed in road accident
Geologist Hugo T. Dummett, whose knowledge of diamond exploration made BHP Billiton (BHP-N) a major force in world diamond mining, has died. He was 62.Dummett was killed in a single-car accident on a …
Knife fight heads to court
Unable to come to terms with the Canadian exploration division of De Beers over the signing of a joint-venture agreement concerning the Knife Lake project in Nunavut, Rhonda (RDM-V) has ended discussi…
Slave Craton district still hot as market awaits results
Although recent exploration by Ashton Mining of Canada (ACA-T) in Nunavut resulted in the discovery of two new kimberlites, the market’s focus is chiefly on the Artemisia and Potentilla pipes, from wh…
Kennecott comes up empty at Jericho
Kennecott Canada Exploration unsuccessfully tested 20 exploration targets during spring drilling at Tahera’s (TAH-T) wholly owned Jericho diamond project in Nunavut.A number of kimberlite indicator mi…
Kennecott undeterred at Rockinghorse (May 27, 2002)
Spring drilling by Kennecott Canada Exploration on 12 exploration targets at the Rockinghorse joint venture in Nunavut’s emerging Coronation Gulf district failed to intersect any new kimberlites. Howe…
Diamondex budgets $3-4m for exploration in ’02
Having discovered and developed the Snap Lake diamond project, which De Beers purchased in 2000 for about $480 million, the technical team of Diamondex Resources (DSP-V) is continuing to explore for k…
Ashton begins work at Potentilla kimberlite pipe
Ashton Mining of Canada (ACA-T) has begun an exploration program on the Kikerk Lake property in the north Slave Craton region of Nunavut.The program will entail collecting a mini-bulk sample from the …
Low macro results won’t dissuade Ashton
A small surface sample of kimberlite float and outcrop collected by Ashton Mining of Canada (ACA-T) from the promising Artemisia kimberlite pipe discovered last fall on the Kim property in Nunavut has…
Coronation Bay a hot spot for diamond explorers
Although a decade has passed since diamonds were first discovered in Canada, the potential for further discoveries has not yet diminished, as evidenced by the success of Ashton Mining of Canada (ACA-T…