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Lac de Gras. Ekati - Panda, Koala, Fox and Misery. Diavik - A154 South, A154 North, A418 and A21
Northwest Territories, Canada
Main commodities: Diamonds




The most recent source geological information used to prepare this description was dated: 2004.    
This description is a summary from published sources, the chief of which are listed below.
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Ekati

Diavik

    Selected References
Armstrong R A and Moore R O,  1998 - Rb-Sr ages on kimberlites from the Lac de Gras area, Northwest Territories, Canada : in    S. Afr. J. Geol.   v101 pp 155-158
Donnelly C L, Stachel T, Creighton S, Muehlenbachs K and Whiteford S,  2007 - Diamonds and their mineral inclusions from the A154 South pipe, Diavik Diamond Mine, Northwest territories, Canada: in    Lithos   v98 pp 160-176
Fedortchouk Y and Canil D  2004 - Intensive Variables in Kimberlite Magmas, Lac de Gras, Canada and Implications for Diamond Survival : in    J. of Petrology   v45 pp 1725-1745
Fedortchouk Y , Canil D and Carlson J A  2005 - Dissolution forms in Lac de Gras diamonds and their relationship to the temperature and redox state of kimberlite magma: in    Contrib. to Mineralogy & Petrology   v150 pp 54-69
Gurney J J, Hildebrand P R, Carlson J A, Fedortchouk Y and Dyc D R  2004 - The morphological characteristics of diamonds from the Ekati property, Northwest Territories, Canada: in    Lithos   v77 pp 21-38
Klein-BenDavid O, Izraeli E S, Hauri E and Navon O,   2007 - Fluid inclusions in diamonds from the Diavik mine, Canada and the evolution of diamond-forming fluids: in    Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta   v71 pp 723-744
Krebs, M.Y., Pearson, D. G., Stachel, T. Stern, R. A. Nowicki, T. and Cairns S.,  2016 - Using Microdiamonds in Kimberlite Diamond Grade Prediction: A Case Study of the Variability in Diamond Population Characteristics Across the Size Range 0.2 to 3.4 mm in Misery Kimberlite, Ekati Mine, NWT, Canada : in    Econ. Geol.   v.111 pp. 503-525
Lockhart G, Grutter H and Carlson J  2004 - Temporal, geomagnetic and related attributes of kimberlite magmatism at Ekati, Northwest Territories, Canada: in    Lithos   v77 pp 665-682
Menzies A, Westerlund K, Grutter H, Gurney J, Carlson J, Agnes Fung and Nowicki T  2004 - Peridotitic mantle xenoliths from kimberlites on the Ekati Diamond Mine property, N.W.T., Canada: major element compositions and implications for the lithosphere beneath the central Slave craton: in    Lithos   v77 pp 395-412
Westerlund K J, Shirey S B, Richardson S H, Carlson R W, Gurney J J and Harris J W,  2006 - A subduction wedge origin for Paleoarchean peridotitic diamonds and harzburgites from the Panda kimberlite, Slave craton: evidence from Re-Os isotope systematics : in    Contrib. to Mineralogy & Petrology   v152 pp 275-294


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