Specifications - 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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