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Using Microdiamonds in Kimberlite Diamond Grade Prediction: A Case Study of the Variability in Diamond Population Characteristics Across the Size Range 0.2 to 3.4 mm in Misery Kimberlite, Ekati Mine, NWT, Canada

M. Y. Krebs, D. G. Pearson, T. Stachel, R. A. Stern, T. Nowicki, S. Cairns
Journal: Economic Geology
Published: 01 March 2016
Economic Geology (2016) 111 (2): 503–525.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2113/econgeo.111.2.503
... similarity of diamonds from different size fractions at Misery reinforces the use of size-frequency analysis to predict diamond grade in kimberlite diamond deposits. † Corresponding author: e-mail, [email protected] 10 2 2015 08 10 2015 © 2016 Society of Economic Geologists. 2016...
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Stone size distribution for <span class="search-highlight">Misery</span> <span class="search-highlight">kimberlite</span> microdiamond samples. The str...

Stone size distribution for Misery kimberlite microdiamond samples. The str...

Published: 01 March 2016
Fig. 3 Stone size distribution for Misery kimberlite microdiamond samples. The straight lines are best-fit lines determined using the Excel power trendline function. R 2 values range from ~0.87 to 0.97.
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(a) Diamonds from the Panda <span class="search-highlight">kimberlite</span>, Ekati deposit, Northwest Territorie...

(a) Diamonds from the Panda kimberlite, Ekati deposit, Northwest Territorie...

Published: 01 May 2010
). Sharp-edged, flat-faced unresorbed octahedra are a strong feature of Panda diamonds as shown in Figure 5 . (b) Diamonds from the Misery kimberlite, Ekati, Northwest Territories, Canada. This selection illustrates the relatively high degree of resorption shown by most diamonds at the Misery location
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(A) Calculation of maximum diamond oxidation rates occurring during groundm...

(A) Calculation of maximum diamond oxidation rates occurring during groundm...

Published: 01 June 2009
Fig. 8. (A) Calculation of maximum diamond oxidation rates occurring during groundmass crystallization in the Panda, Grizzly and Misery kimberlites at 1000, 800 and 600 °C. The ΔNNO values for the three kimberlites are from Canil & Bellis (2007) : (B) Model calculations of the effect
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Octahedral diamond with serrate laminae caused by dissolution (<span class="search-highlight">Misery</span> kimbe...

Octahedral diamond with serrate laminae caused by dissolution (Misery kimbe...

Published: 01 July 2022
Figure 30. Octahedral diamond with serrate laminae caused by dissolution (Misery kimberlite, Ekati Mine). ( a ) Microphotograph showing serrate laminae. ( b ) Cathodoluminescence image showing thin growth zones, ideal for serrate laminae formation through dissolution. [Images by Zhihai Zhang
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Total nitrogen contents vs . degree of aggregation of the studied diamonds...

Total nitrogen contents vs . degree of aggregation of the studied diamonds...

Published: 01 August 2012
Fig. 5 Total nitrogen contents vs . degree of aggregation of the studied diamonds from the Ekati mine. Only FTIR data through the rim are plotted. a: diamond stones from Grizzly kimberlite; b. stones from Misery kimberlite; c. crystals from Leslie kimberlite; d. crystals from Koala kimberlite. I
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Cr 2 O 3 versus MgO discrimination diagram with the unit cell parameter d...

Cr 2 O 3 versus MgO discrimination diagram with the unit cell parameter d...

Published: 18 January 2024
by the box (upper); the ‘kimberlite phenocryst’ trend (dark orange to red to brown) (below the box); the mixed ‘xenocryst and non-kimberlite’ trend [small unit cells (a o < 8.322 Å) – yellow to green to blue] as exhibited by kimberlites Koala/Sheiba/Misery kimberlitic and Gabon non-kimberlitic samples
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Negative trigons. ( a,b ) Flat-bottomed (f/b) trigons on diamonds from Gahc...

Negative trigons. ( a,b ) Flat-bottomed (f/b) trigons on diamonds from Gahc...

Published: 01 July 2022
Figure 31. Negative trigons. ( a,b ) Flat-bottomed (f/b) trigons on diamonds from Gahcho Kué and Snap Lake. ( c,d ) Point-bottomed (p/b) trigons on a Misery kimberlitic diamond and Sierra Leone alluvial diamond. ( e,f ) Truncated trigons combining walls of positive and negative orientation (Orapa
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DIAMOND RESORPTION: LINK TO METASOMATIC EVENTS IN THE MANTLE OR RECORD OF MAGMATIC FLUID IN KIMBERLITIC MAGMA?

Yana Fedortchouk, Zhihai Zhang
Published: 01 June 2011
The Canadian Mineralogist (2011) 49 (3): 707–719.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3749/canmin.49.3.707
... happening in the mantle sources of diamond and in the rising kimberlitic magma. We used parcels of microcrystals of diamond (total of 330 stones) from Misery and Grizzly kimberlites, Ekati mine property, Northwest Territories, Canada. The results of morphological studies of resorption features combined...
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Trends in the Unit Cell Parameter for Kimberlitic Versus Non-Kimberlitic and Diamond-Indicating Chromite

Roberta L. Flemming, Song Gao, Candace N. Freckelton, Phil J.A. McCausland
Published: 18 January 2024
The Canadian Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology (2024) 62 (1): 61–76.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3749/2200036
... by the box (upper); the ‘kimberlite phenocryst’ trend (dark orange to red to brown) (below the box); the mixed ‘xenocryst and non-kimberlite’ trend [small unit cells (a o < 8.322 Å) – yellow to green to blue] as exhibited by kimberlites Koala/Sheiba/Misery kimberlitic and Gabon non-kimberlitic samples...
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Diamond oxidation at atmospheric pressure: development of surface features and the effect of oxygen fugacity

Yana Fedortchouk, Dante Canil
Published: 01 June 2009
European Journal of Mineralogy (2009) 21 (3): 623–635.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1127/0935-1221/2009/0021-1929
...Fig. 8. (A) Calculation of maximum diamond oxidation rates occurring during groundmass crystallization in the Panda, Grizzly and Misery kimberlites at 1000, 800 and 600 °C. The ΔNNO values for the three kimberlites are from Canil & Bellis (2007) : (B) Model calculations of the effect...
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Records of mantle metasomatism in the morphology of diamonds from the Slave craton

Zhihai Zhang, Yana Fedortchouk
Published: 01 August 2012
European Journal of Mineralogy (2012) 24 (4): 619–632.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1127/0935-1221/2012/0024-2214
...Fig. 5 Total nitrogen contents vs . degree of aggregation of the studied diamonds from the Ekati mine. Only FTIR data through the rim are plotted. a: diamond stones from Grizzly kimberlite; b. stones from Misery kimberlite; c. crystals from Leslie kimberlite; d. crystals from Koala kimberlite. I...
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Proportion of diamond crystals with resorption features indicative of mantl...

Proportion of diamond crystals with resorption features indicative of mantl...

Published: 01 June 2011
F ig . 4. Proportion of diamond crystals with resorption features indicative of mantle-derived or kimberlite-induced resorption in the Misery and Grizzly parcels. “Combination” refers to a combination of mantle-derived and kimberlite-induced resorption.
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A–C. Diamond crystals of different degree of resorption from the <span class="search-highlight">Misery</span> par...

A–C. Diamond crystals of different degree of resorption from the Misery par...

Published: 01 June 2011
F ig . 1. A–C. Diamond crystals of different degree of resorption from the Misery parcel, with kimberlite-induced resorption features. D–F. Diamond crystals from the Grizzly parcel, with sharp features developed during resorption in fluid-poor kimberlitic magma.
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Total nitrogen contents vs . degree of aggregation of the analyzed diamond...

Total nitrogen contents vs . degree of aggregation of the analyzed diamond...

Published: 01 August 2012
4 surrounded by rims with pattern 2 or 3. Table 1 . Morphology, nitrogen data and zoning patterns on CL images of diamond from Grizzly, Misery, Leslie, and Koala kimberlites.
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Barren Lands: An Epic Search for Diamonds in the North American Arctic

Kevin Krajick, Paul M. Santi
Published: 01 March 2002
Environmental & Engineering Geoscience (2002) 8 (3): 243.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2113/8.3.243
...-4026-5, 442 p., cloth $26.00. The reader who opens Barren Lands should be prepared to enter a world of cold, ice, gravel, and misery populated by fanatically devoted workaholic geologists with disagreeable personalities. You will be captivated. You will probably also be driven to finish...
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The Canadian Diamond Business: 25 Years and Going Strong

Brooke Clements
Journal: SEG Discovery
Published: 01 January 2017
SEG Discovery (2017) (108): 1–18.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5382/SEGnews.2017-108.fea
... study of the variability in diamond population characteristics across the size range 0.2 to 3.4 mm in Misery kimberlite , Ekati mine, NWT, Canada : Economic Geology , v. 111 , p. 503 – 525 . LeCheminant , A.N. , Richardson , D.G. , DiLabio , R.N.W. , and Richardson , K.A. , eds...
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Morphology of Monocrystalline Diamond and its Inclusions

Jeff W. Harris, Karen V. Smit, Yana Fedortchouk, Moreton Moore
Published: 01 July 2022
Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry (2022) 88 (1): 119–166.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2138/rmg.2022.88.02
...Figure 30. Octahedral diamond with serrate laminae caused by dissolution (Misery kimberlite, Ekati Mine). ( a ) Microphotograph showing serrate laminae. ( b ) Cathodoluminescence image showing thin growth zones, ideal for serrate laminae formation through dissolution. [Images by Zhihai Zhang...
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Petrology and textural classification of the Jericho kimberlite, northern Slave Province, Nunavut, Canada

Maya G. Kopylova, Patrick Hayman
Published: 22 July 2008
Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences (2008) 45 (6): 701–723.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1139/E08-011
.../files/32%20McElroy.pdf [accessed 18 June 2008]. Mitchell, R.H. 1986. Kimberlites: mineralogy, geochemistry, and petrology. Plenum Press, New York. Mustafa, J., Nowicki, T., Oshust, P., Dyck, D., Crawford, B., and Harrison, S. 2006. The geology of the Misery kimberlite, Ekati diamond mine...
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Diamonds through Time

J. J. Gurney, H. H. Helmstaedt, S. H. Richardson, S. B. Shirey
Journal: Economic Geology
Published: 01 May 2010
Economic Geology (2010) 105 (3): 689–712.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2113/gsecongeo.105.3.689
...). Sharp-edged, flat-faced unresorbed octahedra are a strong feature of Panda diamonds as shown in Figure 5 . (b) Diamonds from the Misery kimberlite, Ekati, Northwest Territories, Canada. This selection illustrates the relatively high degree of resorption shown by most diamonds at the Misery location...
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