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Victor Diamond Mine
The Victor Diamond mine is an open pit mine located in the James Bay lowlands of Northern Ontario. It is the first Diamond mine in Ontario, and construction began on the mine in the winter of 2006.
Reserves/Resources: Estimated twelve year life of mine.
Products: The annual production rate is 2.7 million tonnes a year, which comes to about 600,000 carats a year in diamond grade.
Owner: De Beers Company
country/region: CANADA
Continent: North America
| Ekati Diamond Mine
The EKATI Diamond Mine ("EKATI") is Canada's first surface and underground diamond mine. It is located 310 km (190 mi) north-east of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, and about 200 km (120 mi) south of the Arctic circle, near Lac de Gras.
Reserves/Resources: Diamonds at the EKATI site are found in 45 to 62 million year old kimberlite pipes (Creaser et al., 2004) of the Lac de Gras kimberlite field, most of which lie underneath shallow lakes.As of mid-2000, Ekati had proven and probable reserves of 60.3Mt at 0.9ct/t. By mid-2003, reserve addition through exploration had virtually equalled production to date, with reserves standing at 59.0mt grading 1.0ct/t. The measured open cut resource at Ekati (core and buffer) are 42.5Mt grading 0.8ct/t; the S/P resources at 2.6Mt with 2.6ct/t and underground ore at 6.8Mt at 1.5ct/t. The proved core reserves were 16.5Mt (0.4ct/t) open cut, 2.7Mt (1.4ct/t) S/P, and 3.4Mt (1.0ct/t) underground ore.
Products: Between 1998 and 2009, the mine has produced 40 million carats (8,000 kg / 17,636 lb) of diamonds out of six open pits.
Owner: EKATI is a joint venture between BHP Billiton Canada Inc. (80%), and the two geologists who discovered kimberlite pipes north of Lac de Gras, Chuck Fipke and Stewart Blusson each holding a 10% stake in the mine.
country/region: CANADA
Continent: North America
| Gahcho Kue Diamond Mine Project
The Gahcho Kue diamond project is located 300km east-northeast of Yellowknife in the District of Mackenzie, Northwest Territories, Canada.
Diamonds were first discovered in the Northwest Territories in 1989.
Reserves/Resources: 31.3Mt at 1.57 cpt for 49 million carats (indicated). Estimated mine life is 11 years.
Products: If it proceeds to an operating mine, is expected to annually mine 3,000,000 tonnes (3,000,000 long tons; 3,300,000 short tons) of kimberlite, and to produce 4,500,000 carats (900 kg) per year.
Owner: The Gahcho Ku Diamond Project is a 49% / 51% joint-venture between Mountain Province Diamonds Inc. and De Beers Canada Inc.
country/region: CANADA
Continent: North America
| Miba diamond mine
MIBA is a joint venture between Belgian company Sibeka and the DRC government, which owns 80%. De Beers holds a 20% stake in Sibeka (Belgian Umicore the remaining 80%), and markets about one third of the country's diamonds. The company owns the only functioning mine in the country.
Reserves/Resources: Represent 25 maybe to 30 years of life at the present fantastic rhythm of 12 to 15 millions carats per year.
Products: Approximately 9 Mct in 2000.
Owner: A joint venture between Belgian company Sibeka and the DRC government, which owns 80%. De Beers holds a 20% stake in Sibeka (Belgian Umicore the remaining 80%).
country/region: CONGO,Democratic Republic of (was Zaire)
Continent: Africa
| Kollur Mine
The Kollur Mine in Guntur district of old Golkonda kingdom, India, was one of the most productive diamond mines in India and the first major diamond center. It is situated on the right bank of the river Krishna. It operated between the sixteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries.
country/region: INDIA
Continent: Asia
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