Rio Tinto opens new diamond pipe at Diavik mine in Canada
An Air Tindi plane lands at the Yellowknife airport Thursday afternoon after a successful effort by the airline and Search and Rescue to rescue 10 people who were stranded when a plane went down.
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YELLOWKNIFE — Ten people were rescued Thursday after a small plane crashed in a remote area of the Northwest Territories and they were stranded overnight. David Lavallee, a spokesman with 1 Canadian Air Division and Canadian Norad Region Headquarters, said everyone was picked up from the crash site and taken to the nearby Diavik diamond mine. Some were injured. The Joint Rescue Coordination.
Heading back onto the ice from delivering at the Diavik Diamond mine. Yellowknife NWT
Diavik diamond mine owner Rio Tinto will spend $40 million to begin mining below the A21 open pit, likely extending the NWT mine's life to at least early 2026. Thursday's announcement adds about a year to the operating life of Diavik, which was the second diamond mine to come on-stream in the Northwest Territories when production began in 2003.
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Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center - Earthshots. The world's longest ice road connects Yellowknife to three diamond mines: Ekati, Diavik, and Snap Lake. Of the 475 kilometers (300 miles) of ice road, 86 percent of it is across frozen lakes. The ice road is the only overland supply route for the mines.
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The mine is owned by a joint venture between the Rio Tinto Group (60%) and Dominion Diamond Corporation (40%), and is operated by Yellowknife-based Diavik Diamond Mines Inc., a subsidiary of Rio Tinto Group. Commercial production commenced in 2003, and the lifespan of the mine is expected to be 16 to 22 years. It has become an important part of.
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The Air Tindi Twin Otter carrying two pilots and eight passengers crashed near the Diavik Mine, about 300 kilometres northeast of Yellowknife, on Wednesday with everyone on board surviving.
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YELLOWKNIFE, Canada - Rio Tinto has approved a $40-million investment in the first phase of underground mining below the existing A21 open pit at its Diavik Diamond Mine in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Based on the updated mine plan and production schedule including the A154N and A154S pipes, and subject to approval of the second.
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Diavik Diamond Mine Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. A Kiewit-led joint venture completed three contracts from January 2000 to March 2003 to construct portions of the Diavik Diamond Mine located 300 kilometres northeast of Yellowknife. The project site, which is 222 kilometres south of the Arctic Circle, experiences wind chills in January.
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The Diavik Diamond Mine is located in one of the most remote and forbidding places in the world - 220 kilometres south of the Arctic Circle and on the bed of a vast northern lake, Lac de Gras. A single road, built out of ice and crossing frozen lakes, connects the mine with other operations and Yellowknife, capital of the Canada's Northwest.
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The mine, on an island in Lac de Gras roughly 300 km northeast of Yellowknife, is one of the largest employers in the territory. According to Rio Tinto, Diavik provides jobs for about 1,100 people, of whom 486 are northerners. The mine contributes nearly 10 percent of the NWT's GDP, spending a reported $9.3 billion in the North since 2000.
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Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center - Earthshots. Production in the Diavik Mine began in January 2003. By 2013, Diavik had produced 84 million carats. In this time series, you will notice something different about the mine pits of Diavik. The diamond ore is under the lake, so the pits were built in the lake.
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YELLOWKNIFE, Canada — In an effort to support those who have been impacted by the recent wildfires in Canada's Northwest Territories, Diavik Diamond Mine today announced a donation of CAN$250,000 to the United Way Northwest Territories (UWNWT) to support with wildfire response efforts.
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The Diavik Diamond Mine (Diavik) is an unincorporated joint venture between Diavik Diamond Mines (2012) Inc. (a Rio Tinto company) and Dominion Diamond Diavik Limited Partnership, both headquartered in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. The mine is 300 kilometres (km) northeast of Yellowknife and consists of three kimberlite pipes. The mine is.
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YELLOWKNIFE, Canada-- (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Rio Tinto's Diavik Diamond Mine will build the largest solar power plant across Canada's territories, featuring over 6,600 solar panels that will generate approximately 4,200 megawatt-hours of carbon-free electricity annually for the mine. The solar power plant will provide up to 25% of Diavik's.
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Figure 1. The Diavik diamond mine, shown here in February 2015, is located on a small island in Lac de Gras, approximately 300 km northeast of Yellowknife and 220 km south of the Arctic Circle, in a remote region of Canada's Northwest Territories. Photo courtesy of Diavik Diamond Mine. ABSTRACT
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Rio Tinto has operated Diavik since production commenced in 2003. Located approximately 300 km north-east of Yellowknife, the mine employs over 1,100 employees, of which 17 per cent are Northern Indigenous people. In 2020, it produced 6.2 million carats of rough diamonds.