diamonds were the sole focus of the Diavik Diamond Mine. Situated 186 miles northeast of Yellowknife on Lac de Gras Island, it became an iconic symbol of Canada’s northern mining industry. Today, ...

The underground workings of Giant Mine, blasted out of the rock during more than half a century of gold mining, have been sealed shut. In the waning days of 2024, the federal team overseeing the $ ...

A scale model of Giant Mine compares the mine's chambers, which store arsenic trioxide, to a building in Yellowknife. The pink chamber is already frozen, the white one is not, and the Precambrian ...

blasted out of the rock during more than half a century of gold mining, have been sealed shut. In the waning days of 2024, the federal team overseeing the $4.38 billion federal remediation of the ...

Simon Letendre, director of media relations for Rio Tinto, which owns Diavik diamond mine, said in an email ... to the site 300 kilometres northeast of Yellowknife on March 15, said Makohoniuk ...

Yellowknife, the capital of the Northwest Territories, is an isolated mining town built on gold and now sustained by diamonds—an outpost of civilization surrounded by a vast, austere landscape ...

The pegmatites are located to the east and the northeast of the city of Yellowknife ... located 15 km southwest of Rio Tinto's Diavik diamond mine. To date, 10 spodumene pegmatite occurrences ...

Diamond producer De Beers said in a statement that its Gahcho Kue mine, some 280km (170 miles) northeast of Yellowknife, continued to operate, although some employees from surrounding communities ...