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Victor Mine

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 Location:
100 km W from Attawapiskat, Ontario, Canada

  Regional Office:
300 - 5120 49th Street
Yellowknife
Northwest Territories, Canada
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Overview

StatusClosing / Closed
Mine TypeOpen Pit
Commodities
  • Diamond
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
Processing
  • Gravity separation
  • X-Ray sorting
Mine Life1 years (as of Jan 1, 2018)
Victor Mine production has ceased as planned in 2019 and mine closure processes are underway. Diamond Reserve and Diamond Resource estimates are no longer reported. The Tango Extension Diamond Resource adjacent to Victor Mine, has been reallocated to Mineralisation following the closure of Victor Mine.


Owners

 
CompanyInterestOwnership
Government of the Republic of Botswana (GRB) 15 % Indirect
Anglo American plc. 85 % Indirect
De Beers Canada Inc. 100 % Direct
Anglo American owns 85% of De Beers, the world’s leading diamond company. The remaining 15% of De Beers is owned by the Government of the Republic of Botswana (GRB).

Deposit Type

  • Kimberlite


Summary:

The Victor kimberlite comprises two adjacent but separate pipes, Victor South and Victor North. The pipes are infilled with two contrasting textural types of kimberlite: pyroclastic and hypabyssal- like kimberlite. Victor South and much of Victor North are composed of pyroclastic spinel carbonate kimberlites, the main features of which are similar: clast-supported, discrete macrocrystal and phenocrystal olivine grains, pyroclastic juvenile lapilli, mantle-derived xenocrysts and minor country rock xenoliths are set in serpentine and carbonate matrices. These partly bedded, juvenile lapilli-bearing olivine tuffs appear to have been formed by subaerial fire-fountaining airfall processes.

The Victor South pipe has a simple bowl-like shape that flares from just below the basal sandstone of the sediments that overlie the basement. The sandstone is a known aquifer, suggesting that the crater excavation process was possibly phreatomagmatic. In contrast, the pipe shape and internal geology of Victor North are more complex. The northwestern part of the pipe is dominated by dark competent rocks, which resemble fresh hypabyssal kimberlite, but have unusual textures and are closely associated with pyroclastic juvenile lapilli tuffs and country rock breccias F volcaniclastic kimberlite. Current evidence suggests that the hypabyssal-like kimberlite is, in fact, not intrusive and that the northwestern part of Victor North represents an early-formed crater infilled with contrasting extrusive kimberlites and associated breccias. The remaining, main part of Victor North consists of two macroscopically similar, but petrographically distinct, pyroclastic kimberlites that have contrasting macrodiamond sample grades. The juvenile lapilli of each pyroclastic kimberlite can be distinguished only microscopically. The nature and relative modal proportion of primary olivine phenocrysts in the juvenile lapilli are different, indicating that they derive from different magma pulses, or phases of kimberlite, and thus represent separate eruptions. The initial excavation of a crater cross-cutting the earlier northwestern crater was followed by emplacement of phase (i), a low-grade olivine phenocrystrich pyroclastic kimberlite, and the subsequent eruption of phase (ii), a high-grade olivine phenocryst-poor pyroclastic kimberlite, as two separate vents nested within the original phase (i) crater. The second eruption was accompanied by the formation of an intermediate mixed zone with moderate grade. Thus, the final pyroclastic pipe infill of the main part of the Victor North pipe appears to consist of at least three geological/macrodiamond grade zones. In conclusion, the Victor kimberlite was formed by several eruptive events resulting in adjacent and cross-cutting craters that were infilled with either pyroclastic kimberlite or hypabyssal-like kimberlite, which is now interpreted to be of probable extrusive origin. Within the pyroclastic kimberlites of Victor North, there are two nested vents, a feature seldom documented in kimberlites elsewhere. This study highlights the meaningful role of kimberlite petrography in the evaluation of diamond deposits and provides further insight into kimberlite emplacement and volcanism.


Mining Methods

  • Truck & Shovel / Loader


Summary:

Victor Mine is an open pit diamond mining operation.


Crushing and Grinding


Processing

  • Gravity separation
  • X-Ray sorting

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Summary:

Kimberlite ore, after blasting to break the rock, is excavated and loaded into trucks and transported to a processing plant where the diamonds are extracted by crushing the ore and utilizing a number of gravity separation techniques. Final separation of the diamonds from other minerals is carried out in an x-ray machine.


Production:

CommodityUnits201920182017201620152014
Diamond k carats  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required724596644647
All production numbers are expressed as mineral.
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Reserves at December 31, 2018:
Victor Mine production has ceased as planned in 2019 and mine closure processes are underway. Diamond Reserve and Diamond Resource estimates are no longer reported.

CategoryTonnage CommodityGradeContained carats
Measured & Indicated 0.5 Mt Diamond 0.241 carats/t 0.1 M carats
Inferred 0.4 Mt Diamond 0.287 carats/t 0.1 M carats


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Corporate Filings & Presentations:

DocumentYear
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Annual Report 2017
Year-end Mineral Reserves 2017
Annual Report 2016
Year-end Mineral Reserves 2016
Annual Report 2015
Other 2013
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