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Fipke had partnered with mining giant Broken Hill Proprietary Company (now BHP Billiton) to get the diamonds out; BHP opened the Ekati mine at Lac de Gras in 1998.
How a Rogue Geologist Discovered a Diamond Trove in the Canadian Arctic By Carl Hoffman 2008
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When he discovered diamonds in Lac de Gras , Northwest Territories, in 1991, he started the largest staking rush in North America since George Carmack found gold in the Klondike a century earlier.
How a Rogue Geologist Discovered a Diamond Trove in the Canadian Arctic By Carl Hoffman 2008
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After thousands of miles and hundreds of hours in the air, he found a promising site near Lac de Gras, a barren world of lakes and rock and muskeg a few hundred miles outside the Arctic Circle.
How a Rogue Geologist Discovered a Diamond Trove in the Canadian Arctic By Carl Hoffman 2008
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It will be the first large-scale wind farm in Canada's Northwest Territories, and special technology was created to allow the wind farm to operate in -40 C temperatures on the site on East Island at Lac de Gras.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed BRENDA BOUW 2011
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It will be the first large-scale wind farm in Canada's Northwest Territories, and special technology was created to allow the wind farm to operate in -40 C temperatures on the site on East Island at Lac de Gras.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed BRENDA BOUW 2011
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Overhead, water drips from Lac de Gras, the epicentre of Canada's diamond boom.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Nathan VanderKlippe 2010
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The Diavik Diamond Mine is located on a 20 square kilometre island in Lac de Gras, approximately 300 kilometres by air northeast of Yellowknife.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Nathan VanderKlippe 2010
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Overhead, water drips from Lac de Gras, the epicentre of Canada's diamond boom.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Nathan VanderKlippe 2010
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Mine operators monitor both local wildlife populations and the water quality of nearby Lac de Gras to prevent deterioration.
Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit Nick Aster 2010
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Eira Thomas remembers sitting on a rock overlooking Lac de Gras, gazing at the northern tundra and its autumn shades of red and gold, when her father, a fellow geologist, put their huge Diavik discovery into perspective.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Brenda Bouw 2010
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