Petrology and geochemistry of Canadian diamonds: An up-to-date review

Canada is one of the most important diamonds producers in the world despite the first diamond mine opening relatively recently in 1998 in the Slave craton. Given the increasing economic and scientific interest towards Canadian diamonds, an investigation of their geochemical and petrological properties was needed to better understand their genesis. A detailed review is given of all available petrological and geochemical data from >3000 Canadian diamonds and their silicate, oxide and sulfide inclusions from published literature and unpublished datasets, compared with data from worldwide datasets.