Spring 2024
Salt and Pepper Diamonds from Gahcho Kué
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Winter 2024
Champagne Diamonds from Ekati
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Fall 2023
Salt and Pepper Diamonds from Gahcho Kué
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Rough diamonds from the Ekati mine. Photo from https://burgundydiamonds.com/media-gallery.
Buying diamonds can be confusing, and so customers often seek documentation, traceability or provenance when purchasing. At Misfit Diamonds, we ensure that all our diamonds are compliant with standards in place to ensure we are providing fair and traceable diamonds. Despite the fact that all our diamonds are KPC-compliant, they don't always come with complete paperwork. We've broken these varying degrees of provenance and documentation into Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 to allow you to chose the diamonds that are best for your customers. Read more about our chain of provenance here.
Gahcho Kué
The Gahcho Kué diamond mine is a joint venture between Mountain Province Diamonds, which owns 49% of the project, and De Beers Canada, which holds a 51% interest and is the mine’s operator.
The joint venture property is located in the Northwest Territories of Canada, 300 kilometers east-northeast of Yellowknife, on the traditional territories of Tłįchǫ, Dene, and Métis people. The mine site lies on the edge of the continuous permafrost zone in an area known as the barren lands due to its lack of forests.
Average annual production: ~4.5M carats.
Aerial view of the Gahcho Kué diamond mine, 300 km east-northeast of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Photo from https://www.mountainprovince.com/Image-gallery.
Aerial view of the Ekati diamond mine, 300 km northeast of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Photo from https://burgundydiamonds.com/media-gallery.
Ekati
The Ekati diamond mine is owned and operated by Arctic Canadian Diamond Company, and is located 300 kilometers northeast of Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories of Canada, on the traditional territories of the Tłįchǫ people, a Dene First Nations people. "Ekati" in Tłįchǫ means Fat Lake.
Average annual production: ~5M carats.
Average annual production: ~5M carats.
Mountain Province Diamonds
Mountain Province Diamonds is a Canadian diamond company with an operating approach that is rooted in respect for the unique region they operate in. Their principles and practices have been shaped through their close relationship with the indigenous peoples of the area and are vital to the region’s safeguarding. The value derived from their joint efforts will be shared with the local communities over the duration of the mine's life and beyond. The people, their land, and the wildlife will benefit from Mountain Province Diamonds' efforts to minimize environmental impact.
Arctic Canadian Diamond Company
Through a commitment to innovation and communication, Arctic Canadian Diamond Company brings the highest standards of conduct to diamond mining, ensuring the health and safety of their employees and supporting the Indigenous and local communities, establishing strong relationships "by listening with the intent of understanding before [they] act." Through social responsibility, environmental stewardship and economic sustainability, Arctic Canadian is able to mitigate their environmental impact while delivering ethically produced natural diamonds.
Example of an actual KPC certificate fom one of our vendors used to document the purchase of a rough diamond parcel.
From Mine to Polished
Misfit Diamonds works with its vendors to secure parcels of Mine-to-Market diamonds from Gahcho Kué and Ekati mines, ensuring that the entire process is documented to establish a transparent, verifiable chain of custody for each stone from its rough state to its final polished form. The rough diamonds are purchased in closed lots, with weights and stone counts documented in invoices, and backed up with matching KPC documentation and original invoices from site holders all the way to Misfit Diamonds. Each diamond's individual rough weight is logged alongside images and videos of every diamond in its raw state through to the final polished forms. The goal is to use this process as the blueprint for what Misfit's sourcing practices are for all diamonds in our inventory.
From Mine to Polished
Misfit Diamonds worked with its vendors to secure several parcels of diamonds from Gahcho Kué mine, ensuring that the entire process was documented to establish a transparent, verifiable chain of custody for each stone from its rough state to its final polished form. The rough diamonds were purchased in closed lots and the weights and stone counts documented in invoices from Mountain Province, and backed up with matching KPC documentation and original invoices from site holder to brokers to our manufacturing partners to Misfit Diamonds. Each diamond's individual rough weight was logged alongside images and videos of every diamond in its raw state through to the final polished forms. The goal is to use this process as the blueprint for what Misfit's sourcing practices will be for all the diamonds in our inventory.
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