Environmental Impact Report 2025, Draft, Ekati Diamond Mine (Arctic Canadian Diamond Company, November 2025)
Burgundy Diamond Mines Ltd. submits the draft 2025 Environmental Impact Report covering mine activities from 2022–2024 at the Ekati Diamond Mine in the Northwest Territories, fulfilling requirements of the 1997 Environmental Agreement. The report documents environmental monitoring across air, land, water, and wildlife valued ecosystem components, operational status of multiple pits and underground mines, and adaptive management practices for closure and reclamation.
- Date
- Document type
- Report
- Parties
- Burgundy Diamond Mines Ltd., Environment and Climate Change (Government of the Northwest Territories), Independent Environmental Monitoring Agency, Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs (Canada), BHP Diamonds Inc., Arctic Canadian Diamond Company Ltd., Dominion Diamond Ekati Corporation
- Locations
- Ekati Diamond Mine, Northwest Territories, Lac de Gras, Point Lake, Yellowknife, Arctic Circle, Coppermine River, Koala Watershed, King-Cujo Watershed, Pigeon Watershed, Horseshoe Watershed, Misery Pit, Sable Pit, Lynx Pit, Panda Pit, Koala Pit, Fox Pit, Beartooth Pit, Leslie Lake, Slipper Lake, Kodiak Lake, Cujo Lake, Christine Lake, Lac du Sauvage, Horseshoe Lake, Connor Lake, Long Lake Containment Facility, Misery Underground, Tibbitt to Contwoyto Winter Road
- Parameters
- water quality, air quality, caribou, fish abundance, permafrost, greenhouse gas emissions, particulate matter (PM2.5, TSP), ammonia, nitrate, sulphate, mercury, aquatic life, benthic invertebrates, phytoplankton, zooplankton, vegetation, habitat loss, groundwater, surface hydrology, waste rock storage, processed kimberlite, minewater management, dust deposition, snow chemistry, lichen tissue, closure costs, reclamation, seepage, wildlife monitoring, archaeology
- Pages
- 379
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