Whiteouts, Ice Roads, and Wolverines: What Working at a Diamond Mine in the Far North Is Like

Whiteouts, Ice Roads, and Wolverines: What Working at a Diamond Mine in the Far North Is Like

D escending into Diavik is like landing on a distant moon, the world sealed in a hard sheet of ice and snow stretching in every direction. The plane circled a few times and then slid into a landing pattern which brought it into contact with a rough strip that shook the outdated Canadian North Boeing 737, one of the few larger planes that can touch down on gravel. The cold that ripped through the plane after the door was opened caused a wave of g…