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Canadian Diamonds
Baffin Island, Canada Diamonds
November 22, 2008 | MarketWatch

Over the past few years Canada has moved to a prominent place in the production of gem quality diamonds. Now Peregrine Diamonds Ltd. may have found another nice deposit. They recovered 3.25 carats from a 2.28 tonne sample collected from a kimberlite on Baffin Island and have spotted over 170 kimberlite-type anomalies on adjacent lands.


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