Ekati Diamond Mine, Northwest Territories, Canada
Key Data:
Producer of
Diamonds
Location
300km northwest of Yellowknife, NWT, Canada
Ownership
BHP Billiton Diamonds (80%), private investors (20%)
Geology type
Kimberlite pipes
Mineral type
Mainly industrial diamonds
Reserve base
59.0Mt at 1.0ct/t
Annual production
2.56Mct (2005/06)
Mining method
Open pit and underground
Processing method
Crushing, screening, dense medium separation and X-ray fluorescence recovery
Employment
800
Key Equipment:
Mining
4 x Driltech D90KS blasthole drills
2 x Demag H655SO hydraulic shovels
10 x Caterpillar D10R dozers
1 x Caterpillar 994 loader
1 x Caterpillar 5120 hydraulic excavator
4 x Caterpillar 992 loaders
2 x Komatsu PL 1800 hydraulic excavators
13 x 240st Caterpillar haul trucks
3 x 170st Caterpillar haul trucks
11 x 100st Caterpillar 777D haul trucks
Recovery plant
Fuller and Nordberg crushers
KHD Humboldt Wedag grinding rolls
Linatex screens and dense medium separators
Eriez magnetic separators
Bateman pneumatic conveying system
Fynsort Technologies x-ray sorter
Prime construction contractor
Simons Mining Group
Process plant design
Signet Engineering
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