Photo: Peregrine Diamonds announces high grades at Chidliak

These two octahederal, or eight-sided, diamonds are among those recovered at the Saskatchewan Research Council from a 222.1 dry tonne bulk sample extracted this past summer from Peregrine Diamonds’ Chidliak site about 120 kilometres northeast of Iqaluit, at a kimberlite pipe known as CH-6. In an announcement Dec. 3, Peregrine said they recovered 48 diamonds greater than one carat in size, and 137 diamonds greater than half a carat, and that the recovery process revealed a grade of 2.70 carats per tonne. Peregrine said this confirms that CH-6 may be one of the highest grade kimberlite pipes in the world. The diamond on the right in this photo, the largest of those recovered, weighs in at 3.54 carats. Read more later on Nunatsiaqonline.ca. (PHOTO COURTESY OF PEREGRINE DIAMONDS)