Evidence for a 200 km thick diamond-bearing root beneath the Central Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories, Canada? Diamond indicator mineral geochemistry from the Horn Plateau and Trout Lake regions.

• Published in: Mineralogy and Petrology
• Main Authors: Poitras, Stéphane P., Pearson, D. Graham, Hardman, Matthew F., Stachel, Thomas, Nowell, Geoff M., Cairns, Scott
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer 2018
• Subjects: Northwest Territories; Canada; Mackenzie Valley; Horn Plateau
• Online Access: http://dro.dur.ac.uk/27690/; http://dro.dur.ac.uk/27690/2/27690.pdf; http://dro.dur.ac.uk/27690/1/27690S.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00710-018-0641-4

The Central Mackenzie Valley (CMV) area of Northwest Territories is underlain by Precambrian basement belonging to the North American Craton. The potential of this area to host kimberlitic diamond deposits is relatively high judging from the seismologically-defined lithospheric thickness, age of bas...