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Diamond from
Snap Lake mine, Camsell Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Diamond
Formula:C
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Diamond data
Locality Data:Click here to view Snap Lake mine, Camsell Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:154086
Long-form Identifier:1:3:154086:4
GUID (UUID V4):5141e06b-e3aa-48b6-b865-de58d723caeb
Nearest other occurrences of Diamond
84.0km (52.2 miles) ⓘGahcho KuĂ© Mine, Lac de Gras, Northwest Territories, Canada
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
distribution of kimberlite in the Slave craton, Canada: a geometrical approach M.P. Stubley * Stubley...Stubley Geoscience, 158 Toki Road, Cochrane, AB, Canada T4C 2A2 Received 25 June 2003; accepted 27 November...Elsewhere, the clusters are elongate to the northwest or west – northwest and appear to be arranged en echelon...echelon within a poorly defined north – northwest trending zone (‘‘Central Corridor’’). Geometrical spatial...are preferentially located towards the west – northwest (ca. 280j) and north – northeast (ca. 015j) of
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Petrography of Snap Lake kimberlite dyke (Northwest Territories, Canada) and its interaction with country...Squibb3 1 De Beers Canada-Mining, 300-1601 Airport Road NE, Calgary, T2E 6Z8, Canada, 2 University of...1Z4, Canada 3 De Beers Group of Companies, 300-5120 49th Street, Yellowknife, X1A 1P8, Canada *Corresponding...mineralogical zonation at the margin of a kimberlite, the Snap Lake dyke, in contact with the wallrock granitoid....resembles a Group II micaceous kimberlite. The Snap Lake kimberlite has extremely low bulk-Ca compared
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Unlocking our Potential THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS NWTGEOSCIENCE.CA E: ntgs@gov...petroleum@gov.nt.ca T: 867-777-7480 The Northwest Territories Thanks Says NEW FRONTIERS FOR EXPLORATION...Pioneers of the NWT Diamond Industry whose finds helped to unlock the NWT’s diamond potential (L to R)...OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES MESSAGE FROM THE MINISTER In November, the Northwest Territories celebrated...our territory (see page 3). Rightfully so — our diamond industry has pushed us to the cutting-edge of the
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Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E3 b Division of Earth Sciences, University...Abstract A comparison of the diamond productions from Panda (Ekati Mine) and Snap Lake with those from southern...transport to the Earth’s surface, for the Kaapvaal diamond population. Comparing peridotitic inclusions in...the central and southern Slave (Panda, DO27 and Snap Lake kimberlites) and the Kaapvaal indicates that the...corresponding to 40 – 42 mW/m2 surface heat flow), but the diamond source regions subsequently cooled by about 100
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Unlocking our Potential THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS The NWT Difference IT’S MORE...GEOSCIENCE INFORMATION ABOUT THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES? The Northwest Territories Geological Survey is your...TOURISM AND INVESTMENT, GOVERNMENT OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES MESSAGE FROM THE MINISTER At the inaugural...particular, mineral exploration in the Northwest Territories (see page 7 for a Q+A with him). Darrell’s...our potential. Cover photo courtesy of: Diavik Diamond Mines Inc. 3 U N L O C K I N G O U R P O T E
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geology of the Renard 65 kimberlite pipe, Québec, Canada Matthew Gaudet 1,2 & Maya Kopylova 1 & Colleen...Neoproterozoic Renard kimberlite cluster (Québec, Canada), is a steeply-dipping and downward-tapering diatreme...Main Mall #2020, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada 2 Stornoway Diamond Corporation, 980 West 1st St #118, North...North Vancouver, BC V7P 3N4, Canada 3 Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College...kimberlites in the Renard 65 kimberlite pipe, Québec, Canada. These data constitute a valuable contribution
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
implications for global kimberlite genesis and diamond exploration L.M. Heaman a,*, B.A. Kjarsgaard b...Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E3 b Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A OE8 Abstract...kimberlite province (Alberta, Nunavut, Northwest Territories, Colorado/Wyoming). Ten new U – Pb perovskite/mantle...lifetime of the supercontinent Gondwanaland. Economic diamond deposits in kimberlite occur throughout the Phanerozoic...Cambrian (Venetia, South Africa; Snap Lake and Kennady Lake, Canada) to the Tertiary (Mwadui, Tanzania;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
oriented trigons on diamonds from the Snap Lake kimberlite dike, Canada: Implications for fluids and kimberlite...B3H 4R2, Canada 2 De Beers Canada, 300-1601 Airport Road, Calgary, Alberta T2E 6Z8, Canada 3 De Beers...natural diamonds from Snap Lake kimberlite dike, Northwest Territories, Canada. The study used 91 micro-diamonds...six kimberlite litho-facies identified in the Snap Lake dike. We established that unlike the majority...kimberlite pipes in the Northwest Territories, every studied Snap Lake diamond shows positively oriented
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in diamonds from the Snap Lake/King Lake kimberlite dike, Slave craton, Canada: a trace-element perspective...diamonds from the Snap Lake/King Lake kimberlites of the southeastern Slave craton in Canada have been analyzed...As observed worldwide, the harzburgitic-garnet diamond inclusions (DIs) possess sinusoidal REE patterns...inclusion that occurs at the outer portion of a diamond compared to that near the core. The compositions...Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Keywords: Snap Lake; Diamond inclusions; Trace element; REE; In situ analysis;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
by Crustal Rocks at the Snap Lake Diamond Mine (Northwest Territories, Canada) using SWIR (1.90–2.36 ”m)...Edmonton, T6G 2E3, Canada 2 De 3 German 4 Mineralogy Beers Canada, Toronto, M3C 3G8, Canada Remote Sensing...Austria 5 TNT Mineral Science, Gibsons, V0N 1V0, Canada Abstract Short-wave infrared (SWIR, 1.90–2.36...Smoothed and denoised images from two Snap Lake (Northwest Territories, Canada) kimberlite drill cores were processed...Introduction The Snap Lake diamond mine is located ~220 km northeast of Yellowknife (Northwest Territories, Canada;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and grain size in the Snap Lake kimberlite intrusion, Northwest Territories, Canada: A possible proxy for...Olivine Crystal size distributions Diamond a b s t r a c t The Snap Lake hypabyssal kimberlite is a 15°...intrusion. Since fresh forsteritic olivine and diamond possess similar densities they can be expected...and whether olivine can be used as a proxy for diamond concentration and size. Direct measurement of diamonds...olivine and diamond size distributions has been developed, and a strong correlation between diamond and olivine
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
fine-quality diamonds on kimberlite. Photo courtesy Aber Diamond Inc. WARREN F. BOYD R. T. Boyd Limited Suite 546...546, 109 Thomas Street Oakville, Ontario Canada L6J 7R4 diamondswfb@cs.com I n the early 1980s, when...2. Canadian diamond mines (Ekati and Diavik) and future diamond mines (Jericho, Snap Lake, Victor). Map...at 20:04 22 August 2013 Figure 3. The Ekati Diamond mine—Panda pit. Photo courtesy BHP Billiton. world...discovery of diamonds in the Northwest Territories in the far north of Canada in 1991 led to the largest
Journal (volume)
for the communities of Canada 's Northwest Territories "The CanadaMa rk"' hallmark assures customers...polished diamond is of Canadian origin, cu t from a rough diamond re sponsibly mined in the Northwest Territories...processes at each stage of its journey from Canadian mine to polished stone and polished to meet specific...specific quality standard s, only a CanadaMark' " diamond comes with independent assurance of origin. M INING...Resources Corp. I Adam Chamberlain Gowling WLG (Canada) LLP Eric Christenson I David Connelly Lane
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
4 ORIGINAL PAPER Potential for offsetting diamond mine carbon emissions through mineral carbonation...kimberlite: an assessment of De Beers mine sites in South Africa and Canada Evelyn M. Mervine 1 & Siobhan A...Beers kimberlite mine operations in South Africa (Venetia and Voorspoed) and Canada (Gahcho Kué, Victor...Victor, and Snap Lake) have the potential to sequester carbon dioxide (CO2) through weathering of kimberlite...kimberlite mine tailings, which can store carbon in secondary carbonate minerals (mineral carbonation). Carbonation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
3.549 MINERALOGY OF THE SNAP LAKE KIMBERLITE, NORTHWEST TERRITORIES, CANADA, AND COMPOSITIONS OF PHLOGOPITE...Stores Road, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada Barbara SCOTT SMITH Department of Earth and Ocean...V7R 2M9, Canada Abstract The Cambrian Snap Lake kimberlite, in the Northwest Territories, Canada, is a...with an average vertical thickness of ~2.5 m. The diamond deposit consists of hypabyssal serpentine monticellite...dolomite, spinel, apatite, rutile and ilmenite. The Snap Lake kimberlite is similar in major-element composition
Journal (issue)
N T I A L Unlocking our Potential THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS The Friendliest Place...Photo courtesy of: De Beers Canada Reasons to Invest in the Northwest Territories NWTGEOSCIENCE.CA E: ntgs@gov...GEOSCIENCE INFORMATION ABOUT THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES? The Northwest Territories Geological Survey is your...Invest in the Northwest Territories 10 Select Mineral Deposits of the Northwest Territories 12 Certainty...the Northwest Territories 14 15 Roads to Resources The Last Word Cover: the Gahcho KuĂ© Diamond Mine—the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sample from the north central Superior craton, Canada . . . Aulbach, S., see Stachel, T. . . . . . ....mantle beneath the Buffalo Head Terrane, Alberta (Canada) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... Smith, Syngenetic inclusions of yimengite in diamond from Sese kimberlite (Zimbabwe) — evidence for...Stachel, J.W. Harris and M. Javoy, Constraining diamond metasomatic growth using C- and N-stable isotopes:...A418, DO18, DD17 and Ranch Lake kimberlites at Lac de Gras, Slave Craton, Canada . . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2555 Edgemont Boulevard, North Vancouver, BC, Canada V7R 2M9 a r t i c l e i n f o Article history:...online 6 June 2009 Keywords: Kimberlite Olivine Diamond Evaluation Emplacement Petrography Texture a b...kimberlite bodies is deïŹned by the volume and diamond content of all their internal units which are summarised...mantle-derived magmas, each carrying different diamond populations and, in some instances, subsequent...Dilution by xenoliths is important in predicting diamond contents but it is also reïŹ‚ected in reduced olivine
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
coupling revisited: The Archean Slave craton, NWT, Canada H. Helmstaedt Dept. of Geological Sciences and...Engineering, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...resembles other diamondiferous cratons in that its diamond endowment consists of both Mesoarchean and Paleoproterozoic...the lithosphere as well as to establish ages of diamond formation and crust–mantle coupling. Based on regional...in the southern domain are found also in the Snap Lake and CL-25 kimberlites (Pokhilenko et al., 1997;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
exploration and deposit characterization of the Snap Lake dyke, Canada Philip T.C. Hammer *, Ron M. Clowes, Kumar...6339 Stores Road, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6T 1Z4 Received 27 June 2003; accepted 9 December...subhorizontal kimberlite dyke/sill exploration and mine planning, a feasibility study and subsequent seismic...undertaken on the diamondiferous Snap Lake dyke (Northwest Territories, Canada). A substantial drilling program...structural and composition data available at Snap Lake provides a unique opportunity to test reflection
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the A154 South pipe, Diavik Diamond Mine, Northwest territories, Canada Cara L. Donnelly a,⁎, Thomas...Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2E3 b Diavik Diamond Mines, Yellowknife, NWT, Canada Received 4 August 2006;...kimberlite (Diavik Diamond Mines, Central Slave Craton, Canada) indicate largely peridotitic diamond sources (83%)...component. Inclusions of ferropericlase (4%) and diamond in diamond (1%) represent “undetermined” parageneses...Mg-numbers (90.6 to 93.6) of olivines indicate diamond formation in a chemically less depleted environment
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Kennady North Project kimberlites (Northwest Territories of Canada) comprises multiple shallow dipping...and resource definition assumptions. Keywords Diamond . Volcanic . Dyke . Exploration . Chonolith Introduction...east-northeast of Yellowknife, in the Northwest Territories of Canada (Fig. 1). Numerous exploration programs...SRK Consulting (Canada) Inc., 1066 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6E 3X2, Canada 2 Stubley Geoscience...T4C 2A2, Canada 3 Aurora Geosciences, 3506 McDonald Drive, Yellowknife, NT X1A 2H1, Canada 4 Kennady
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of diamonds from the Ekati property, Northwest Territories, Canada John J. Gurney a,b,*, Peter R. Hildebrand...c BHP Billiton Diamonds Inc., Canada d University of Victoria, Canada b Received 27 June 2003; accepted...Examination of exploration diamond parcels from 13 kimberlites on the Ekati Diamond Minek property revealed...pseudo-hemimorphic crystals. Some octahedra have a fibrous diamond coat. The diamonds are predominantly colourless...Siberia (Orlov, Yu L., 1977. Mineralogy of the Diamond. Translated from the Russian language and published
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
two main types of geological environment support diamond formation: they are ultramafic (or peridotitic)...peridotites and eclogites in kimberlites. In primary, diamond-bearing kimberlite and lamproite rocks the ratio...diamonds dominate in the overwhelming majority of diamond occurrences worldwide. Olivine is the most typical...polished surface with diamond. Olivine from diamonds of the Snap Lake dyke system (Canada) were studied for...grain of such composition located in the inner diamond growth zone is associated with an olivine grain
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Gold Inc., 300-224 4th Avenue South Saskatoon, SK, Canada S7K 5M5 Archon Exploration Pty Ltd., 11 Rowsley...March 2009 Available online 5 April 2009 Keywords: Diamond Annual production Mines Advanced projects Exploration...recovered from the Letseng Mine in 2006, help to drive a multi-billion dollar diamond exploration, mining and...Russia, Canada, South Africa and Angola account for 83% by value and 65% by weight of annual diamond production...weight of annual diamond production for 2007. During the last twelve years 16 new diamond mines commenced
 
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