Peregrine Diamonds Ltd. has discovered kimberlite indicator mineral (“KIM”) and precious metal anomalies at its Qilaq Project (“Qilaq”) on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. Seven of the samples collected in 2009 at Qilaq returned probe-confirmed KIMs, including one sample that returned 405 KIMs, all of which were angular, which is an indication of a proximal kimberlite [...]
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Tahera Diamond Corporation Announces Commencement of Jericho Diamond Mine Sale Process
Tahera Diamond Corporation and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Benachee Resources Inc. have received the necessary approvals to pursue a sale of their Jericho Diamond Mine and all related milling, mining and exploration assets.
Opened in 2006 in Nunavut, the Jericho Diamond Mine produced a total of 786,000 carats of gem quality diamonds, including over 1,100 stones greater [...]
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Diamond Miner Shear Commences Drilling at the Liege Diamond Project in Alberta, Canada
Diamond News – diamond mining news: Diamond miner Shear Minerals Ltd. (SRM: TSXV) has commenced winter exploration drilling on the Liege Diamond Project located in Northern Alberta.
In December 2009, Shear mobilized field crews to Northern Alberta to initiate access routes into the drill targets on the Liege East Property. Three initial priority targets have been [...]
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Peregrine Announces Appointment of Mike Westerlund As Vice President, Investor Relations And Corporate Communications
Peregrine Diamonds Ltd. announces the appointment of Mike Westerlund to the position of Vice President, Investor Relations and Corporate Communications. Mr. Westerlund will be responsible for Peregrine’s investor relations and corporate communications initiatives.
Mr. Westerlund brings a wealth of communications and public markets experience in the mining and diamond exploration business to the Company. Prior to [...]
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Peregrine Commencing 50 Tonne CH-1 Mini-Bulk Sample Processing for Diamonds
Peregrine Diamonds Ltd. has announced that the microdiamond results for the last four kimberlites, CH-13 through CH-16, discovered in 2009 on the 980,000 hectare Chidliak Project on Baffin Island, Nunavut, have now been received and three of the four kimberlites were found to be diamondiferous. In addition, processing to recover commercial-sized diamonds from the 50 [...]
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Diamonds North Recovers Larger Diamonds from Beluga-3 at Amaruk in Nunavut, Canada
Diamonds North Resources Ltd. has recovered larger stones from the Beluga-3 kimberlite on its 100% owned Amaruk Property located in Nunavut, Canada. A 6.7 tonne sample collected by reverse circulation drilling and processed by dense media separation yielded a total of 126 diamonds above the 0.5 mm mesh including 9 stones on the 1.18 mm [...]
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Peregrine Diamonds Says Nanuq North Arbitration Scheduled for May, 2010
Peregrine Diamonds Ltd.says that the arbitration proceedings commenced by the Company against Indicator Minerals Inc. and Hunter Exploration Group reported on July 9, 2009 are now scheduled to commence in May, 2010. The arbitration was initiated by Peregrine over a dispute that arose over the joint venture which covers a portion of the 33,100 hectare [...]
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Peregrine Diamonds Recovers 0.64 Carat Diamond From Chidliak Sample
Peregrine Diamonds Ltd. has discovered a 0.64 carat diamond and a coarse diamond size distribution in a surface sample collected from the CH-7 kimberlite on the 9,800 square kilometre Chidliak project in Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. A 220.9 kilogram sample collected from CH-7 yielded 664 diamonds larger than the 0.075 mm sieve size, including 11 [...]
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Nathalie Hansen Joins Big Red Diamond Board
Big Red Diamond Corporation has appointed Nathalie Hansen to its board of directors effective immediately, subject to regulatory approval. The board of directors has granted 500,000 stock options to Ms. Hansen exercisable for a period of five years at a price of $0.10 per share.
Ms. Hansen graduated from Carleton University with a Bachelors of [...]
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Peregrine Discovers Seven Additional Kimberlite Discoveries at Chidliak, Baffin Island, Nunavut
Peregrine Diamonds Ltd. has discovered seven additional kimberlites on the 9,800 square kilometre Chidliak project, located approximately 120 kilometres northeast of Iqaluit on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. Five of the seven kimberlites were discovered by drilling geophysical anomalies, while two were discovered at surface while prospecting geophysical anomalies.
The field portion of the 2009 Chidliak exploration [...]
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Stornoway and Shear Option Chesterfield Inlet Claims in Nunavut
Stornoway Diamond Corporation and Shear Minerals Ltd. Have signed an indicative proposal with Kennecott Canada Exploration Inc. to jointly explore the northern portions of the Churchill Diamond Project, now referred to as the Chesterfield Inlet Diamond Project.
“This new partnership will enable the exploration of the northern regions that have not seen significant exploration compared to [...]
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Peregrine Discovers Four Additional Kimberlites at Chidliak, Baffin Island, Nunavut
Peregrine Diamonds Ltd. has discovered four additional kimberlites on the 9,800 square kilometre Chidliak property, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. The CH-6 kimberlite was discovered by drilling whereas the other three kimberlites, CH-7, CH-8 and CH-9, were discovered at surface while prospecting geophysical anomalies. Since commencement of the Chidliak summer exploration programme on July 3, six [...]
