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Lucapa Raises $3.6M for Lulo Kimberlite Hunt
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Lucapa Diamond Company has completed a sale of new shares that successfully raised AUD 5.25 million ($3.6 million) to fund its search for the kimberlite source of its high-value alluvial stones.The proceeds of the rights...
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Jun 03, 2020
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Rapaport News
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Botswana Diamonds’ Kimberlite Find Unviable
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Botswana Diamonds will not continue exploration of the Ontevredenpipe in South Africa, after discovering it was smaller than previouslyexpected, it said Wednesday. “Modern mineral exploration technology is not a magic bullet,”said chairman John Teeling. “Modern geophysics...
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Mining
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Jun 06, 2018
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Rapaport News
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Botswana Diamonds Finds Promising Kimberlite
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Botswana Diamonds’ share price jumped 15% Friday after thecompany gave a positive report of the potential quality of a kimberlite pipe atits exploration project in South Africa.The rock at Ontevreden, South Africa, displayscharacteristics typically present in high-grade...
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Mining
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Oct 02, 2017
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Rapaport News
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De Beers Aims for Carbon-Neutral Mining
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De Beers is looking to make some of its mines carbon-neutralwithin half a decade by storing carbon dioxide inside kimberlite rocks.The rough producer is investigating ways to acceleratethe naturally occurring process by which kimberlite reacts with carbon toremove carbon...
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May 07, 2017
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Rapaport News
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Lucapa Buys Lesotho Diamond Mine
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Lucapa Diamond Company acquired the Mothae mine in Lesotho for $9million, saying the resource that was abandoned by Lucara Diamond Corp in 2015will complement its other operations.“There’s only onething better than owning one...
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Mining
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Jan 31, 2017
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Rapaport News
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Pangolin Starts Botswana Drilling Project
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PangolinDiamonds Corp. commenced drilling for kimberlite at its Motloutse DiamondProject in Botswana’s Orapa region where the country’s first diamonds wererecovered in 1959.The“percussion” drill program is anticipated to be completed within the nexttwo weeks and the results...
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Mining
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Jul 27, 2016
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Rapaport News
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Lucapa Finds Confirmed Kimberlite at Angola Project
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Lucapa Diamond Company has identified confirmed kimberlite material at its Lulo project in Angola.The miner said the identification, L259, was a “significant outcome”from its pitting and grade control programs around its Mining Block...
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Mining
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Oct 07, 2015
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Rapaport News
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Mining
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Dec 16, 2014
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Jeff Miller
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Dominion Diamond Provides Financial Security for Ekati
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Dominion Diamond Corporation posted surety bonds with the Northwest Territories in the aggregate amount of $221 million (CAD 253,473,000) to secure its obligation under a water license to reclaim the Ekati mine site. As a result, Dominion...
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Mining
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Nov 07, 2014
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Jeff Miller
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Mining
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Feb 12, 2014
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Jeff Miller
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Peregrine CH-6 Sample Returns Higher Grade
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Peregrine Diamonds Ltd. found that the latest bulk sample from the company's Chidliak diamond project in Nunavut, Canada yielded a diamond grade of 2.87 carats per tonne of ore. According to the company, 532.50 carats...
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Mining
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Jan 16, 2014
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Brian Bossetta
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Paragon Acquires Mothae Processing Plant
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Paragon Diamonds Ltd. agreed to buy the Mothae kimberlite processing plant in Lesotho from Lucara Diamond Corporation through its subsidiary Meso Diamonds. Paragon Diamonds expects to relocate the plant in the first quarter of 2014...
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Mining
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Dec 18, 2013
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Jeff Miller
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Kennady Diamonds' Sample Grade Exceeds Expectations
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Kennady Diamonds Inc. recovered approximately 3,454 kilograms of kimberlite from 21 holes drilled at the northwest lobe of the Kelvin kimberlite at the Kennady North diamond project this past summer. The kimberlite was processed at the...
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Mining
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Dec 16, 2013
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Jeff Miller
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Pangolin Begins Drilling New Target
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Pangolin Diamonds Corporation completed core drilling at its GK6 geobotanical anomaly at Jwaneng South in Botswana but did not intersect kimberlite. Drilling intersected an igneous intrusion, which accounted for the botanical anomaly, the magnetic and gravity profiles, as well as the trace element results obtained over...
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Mining
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Dec 06, 2013
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Jeff Miller
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Kennady Intersects 70-Meters of Kimberlite at Kelvin
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Kennady Diamonds Inc. intersected more than 70 meters of kimberlite in a step-out drilling exercise performed to the northwest of its main Kelvin kimberlite. Delineation drilling, which has been taking place approximately 100 meters from Kelvin...
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Mining
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Aug 26, 2013
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Jeff Miller
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Delrand to Test for Kimberlite at Its Bomili Permits
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Delrand Resources Limited reported having completed sampling exploration programs at the Bomili and Coexco in the northern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in search of kimberlites. Three targets were ultimately identified on the Bomili permits, which were defined by 89 close spaced samples, 51 of which were positive with...
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Mining
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Aug 02, 2013
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Jeff Miller
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North Arrow Intersects Kimberlite at Pikoo
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North Arrow Minerals Inc. confirmed that it had intersected kimberlite in the first hole of a drilling program currently underway at the Pikoo diamond project, which is located approximately 140 kilometers east of La Ronge, Saskatchewan, Canada. The 2,000 meter drilling program is being funded by North Arrow as part of an option...
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Mining
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Jun 26, 2013
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Jeff Miller
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Peregrine Discovers a Third Kimberlite at Lac de Gras
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Peregrine Diamonds discovered a third kimberlite during its winter drill program in the Lac de Gras region, Northwest Territories, Canada and named it LD-3. The new kimberlite is located on a claim that Peregrine Diamonds owns, approximately...
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Mining
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Apr 24, 2012
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Jeff Miller
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India Hosts 10th International Kimberlite Conference
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Press Release: It was first time that the International Kimberlite Conference (IKC) took place in India, in Bangalore, at the Sheraton Hotel from February 6 to 11, 2012. It was organized by the Geological Society of India and sponsored...
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Mining
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Feb 15, 2012
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Geological Society of India
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Diamonds North Launches Exploration Program at Amaruk
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Diamonds North Resources launched its 2011 exploration program at the Amaruk property in Nunavut, Canada, which will focus on top priority gold prospects as well as follow-ups of a new generation of kimberlite targets identified from electromagnetic airborne...
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Mining
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Aug 08, 2011
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Ricci Dipshan
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