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On Nov. 12, 1991, the Australian minerals giant BHP issued a spare, eight-sentence press release that dropped like a bomb on Canadian mining. At a tiny lake 300 kilometres northeast of Yellowknife, the company and its Canadian partners had discovered microdiamonds.
Canada would become a major diamond producer, but at the time the news stunned the mining community. Diamonds in the Arctic? A group of men and women who had spent their lives ransacking Canada for minerals gathered for a late-night meeting in Toronto as they tried to understand the news.
The mining veterans didn’t have the faintest idea what to make of the discovery. One of them suggested calling Chris Jennings. Christopher Mark Hubert Jennings, who died in Niagara-on-the-Lake on Dec. 11 at the age of 90, after a long battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, was a tall, athletic South African geologist.
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