Lac de Gras a wide and long stream called the Narrows. The median flood peak discharge in the Narrows is making it an important corridor for fish movements. Lac de Gras Lac de Gras is a lake approximately north east of Yellowknife, in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Lac de Gras was the centre of the diamond rush of the 1990s. There are two working, and one closed, diamond mines in the area, Diavik Diamond Mine, Ekati Diamond Mine, and the care and maintenance Snap Lake Diamond Mine. It was called Ekati by aboriginal peoples. The lake is ultraoligotrophic but supports a slow-growing
The Diamond Mine (short story) artist's relationship with her family. The Diamond Mine (short story) "The Diamond Mine" is a short story by Willa Cather. It was first published in "McClure's" in October 1916. Aboard a ship, Cressida Garnet, a soprano, meets a cousin of her late first husband's. She tells him of her love affair with Blasius Bouchalka, a Bohemian violinist who was her second husband. After he had an affair with their maid, Ruzenka, she filed for divorce and never saw him again. She is now set to marry Jerome Brown, a financier. Later, we learn that Cressida died on the RMS Titanic.