MegaStructures - 2004 Diamond Diggers Ekati Diamond Mine 2-8 was released on: USA: 27 July 2005
The Ekati is Canada's first diamond mine, located a little south of the Arctic Circle in the Northwest Territories. It is 80% owned by BHP Billiton, a 'global leader in the resources industry', according to their Web site, below.
The official gem of the Northwest Territories in Canada is the diamond. The diamond is representative of the mining industry in the region and the significant role it plays in the territory's economy. The first diamond mine in the Northwest Territories, the Ekati Diamond Mine, opened in 1998.
The Diamond Mine was created in 2005.
According to its Wikipedia page:"The first volcanic pipe found in the Lac de Gras region was the Point Lake kimberlite, discovered by Chuck Fipke and Stewart Blusson who had been prospecting in the region for almost ten years, having found kimberlite indicator minerals as early as 1985."
Diamonds from any source are transported in secret, under high security and are highly unlikely to be detectable among a group of commercial transport paradigms. You can read more about the mine, below.
Diamond Mine - Blue Rodeo album - was created on 1989-03-20.
Diamonds were discovered in Canada in the early 1990s when indicator minerals containing diamond were detected in the soil. This led to the discovery of diamond-rich kimberlite pipes in the Northwest Territories, where the first diamond mine, Ekati, opened in 1998. Since then, several other diamond mines have been developed in Canada.
Diamond mines are discovered, not invented.From the Wikipedia page for the mine:The first volcanic pipe found in the Lac de Gras region was the Point Lake kimberlite, discovered by Chuck Fipke and Stewart Blusson who had been prospecting in the region for almost ten years, having found kimberlite indicator minerals as early as 1985."
Canada trades with many countries, but its biggest trading partner is the U.S.. Others include: China United Kingdom Japan Mexico Germany Netherlands South Korea Vietnam France Algeria Norway
You can mine diamonds in the Arkansas Diamond Mine, in Murfreesboro, Arkansas, as below.
The largest diamond mine in the world is the Jwaneng diamond mine in Botswana. Jwaneng mine is jointly owned by the Debswana Diamond Company and the Botswana government. It produces some of the highest quality diamonds in the world.