Snap Lake Diamond Mine

Snap Lake Diamond Mine

Die Snap-Lake-Diamantenmine liegt 220 km nordöstlich von Yellowknife in den kanadischen Northwest Territories. Sie wird von De Beers, dem größten Diamantenproduzent und -händler der Welt betrieben. Laut De Beers wird sie bei Fertigstellung ihr erster reiner Diamanten-Untertagebau ausserhalb von Afrika und der erste in Kanadas sein.[1]

Die Errichtung der Mine begann mit der Öffnung der Eisstraße Tibbitt to Contwoyto Winter Road im Winter 2005 und kostete bislang C $805 Millionen. Bei der Fertigstellung im Jahr 2007 sollen laut De Beers 500 Leute beschäftigt werden.[1] Die Zeit des Bestehens der Mine wird auf 20 Jahre vorausgesagt. In dieser Zeit erwartet De Beers jährlich 1,1 Millionen Tonnen mit 1,2 Karat pro Tonne zu fördern.[1]

Die Snap-Lake-Mine war bestandteil der Doku-Serie Ice Road Truckers und Gegenstand der Discovery-Channel-Reportage „Daily Planet Goes North - More Ice for the Arctic“'.[2]

Einzelnachweise

  1. a b c Snap Lake: Project Factsheet der Firma De Beers, abgerufen am 19. Dezember 2008
  2. Daily Planet Goes North - More Ice for the Arctic. Discovery Channel. Abgerufen am 19. Dezember 2008.


63.575-110.866666666677Koordinaten: 63° 34′ 30″ N, 110° 52′ 0″ W


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