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Thursday, April 4, 2013

Dominion Diamond eyes Diavik mine deal if price is right, (TSE: HW.TO)

Dominion Diamond Corp has the means to purchase Rio Tinto's majority stake in the Diavik diamond mine in northern Canada if the price is right, Dominion's chief executive said on Thursday.Global miner Rio has said it may pull out of the diamond business, and Dominion, formerly Harry Winston Diamond Corp, already owns 40 percent of Diavik, in Canada's Northwest Territories."I think we have certainly got the head room to undertake a transaction with Rio on Diavik, should that be available at the right price," Dominion CEO Robert Gannicott said on a conference call with analysts and investors. He was responding to a question about whether Dominion's balance sheet could support such a deal.Toronto-based Dominion said late Wednesday that its sales rose in its fiscal fourth quarter, helped by an 11 percent increase in the price of rough diamonds. Operating profit from continuing operations fell, hurt by transaction costs.

Shares of HW remained unchanged at $16.76. In the past year, the shares have traded as low as $11.12 and as high as $17.43. On average, 193350 shares of HW.TO exchange hands on a given day and today's volume is recorded at 106578.



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