Underwater Remote Mining trials set for 2023 in Arctic Canadian Diamond’s Lynx pit at Ekati
On November 24 at the Yellowknife Geosciences Forum, which is the largest mining and petroleum conference in the Northwest Territories, Arctic Canadian Diamond Company Ltd President and CEO Rory Moore outlined how the company is going to trial Underwater Remote Mining as a way of taking the Ekati operations forward into the future, as current conventional mining winds down. Arctic Canadian Diamond Company owns a controlling interest in Ekati and is the operator – it acquired the operation from Dominion Diamond Mines in February 2021. The mine first opened in 1998, and was 80% owned and operated by BHP who then sold its interest in 2012.
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