Diamonds

Diamonds from Dominion Diamond's Ekati mine. Credit: Dominion Diamond

Dominion Diamond hits its stride

Boding well for its upcoming quarterly financial results, Dominion Diamond’s (TSX: DDC; NYSE: DDC) third-quarter production and sales figures beat market expectations, sending its share price up $1.35, or more than 8%, to $17.73.


Helicopter pilot Tim Franke (standing) and geologist Bruce Kienlen sample till at Canterra Minerals' diamond project in the Southern Slave region of the Northwest Territories.  Credit: Canterra Minerals

Canterra carves out more ground in diamond country

Randy Turner — the man who guided Winspear Diamonds from the discovery of the Snap Lake diamond deposit in northern Canada to its sale to De Beers for $305 million in 2000 — is back at diamond exploration in the same part of…





Editorial: Reading the tea leaves

Lukas Lundin, the chairman of Lucara Diamond may be bullish on diamonds (see Page 5), but he doesn’t see things improving for diamond juniors in…




Pikoo diamond project in Saskatchewan

Canada’s mini-staking rush

After going into hibernation in the wake of the Great Recession, diamond juniors are slowly rousing and getting back into the field. Inspired by Kennady…



Stellar Diamonds' 100-tonne-per-hour dense media separation processing plant at the Baoul diamond project in southeastern Guinea. Credit: Stellar Diamonds

Stellar Diamonds starts trial mining in Guinea

For a junior diamond-development company with operations in Guinea and Sierra Leone — two of the three countries in West Africa hit by the Ebola virus — it’s remarkable that Stellar Diamonds (US-OTC: SDIZF; LSE:…



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