The development of resource-stage diamond projects is materially constrained by the time and cost involved in bulk sampling (or trial mining) campaigns that serve to demonstrate the (macro)diamond grade of the deposit. Comparatively inexpensive assay data for (microRead more... about Benchmarked Macrodiamond grade estimates from microdiamond data
Jarek Jakubec, R. Woodward, B. Boggis, L. Clark, P. Lewis
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Mining
Primary diamond deposits have been mined on an industrial scale only within the past 150 years, mainly as open pit operations. Underground mining of these deposits was implemented only within the second half of the 20th century in South Africa and over the last 50 years, a relatively large Read more... about Underground Mining at Ekati and Diavik Diamond Mines