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The first clue to the presence of possible diamond-bearing source rocks in northern Alberta was the discovery of a perfect octahedral diamond, estimated at about 0.83 carats in weight, by farm worker Einar Opdahl during 1958 in the Evansburg area of west-central Alberta. Since the Opdahl diamond, no new diamond finds were reported in northern Alberta until the 1990s, when several occurrences of alluvial diamond and diamondiferous kimberlite were discovered.

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Name	Format	Description	Link
Alberta Diamond Occurrences Dataset - (HTML)	HTML		https://geodiscover.alberta.ca/geoportal/rest/metadata/item/eebbfed7f3af4d15a4eaa6a68bc92a68/html
Alberta Diamond Occurrences Dataset - (XML)	XML		https://geodiscover.alberta.ca/geoportal/rest/metadata/item/eebbfed7f3af4d15a4eaa6a68bc92a68/xml
Original metadata (https://open.alberta.ca/opendata)	HTML		https://open.alberta.ca/opendata/7eead762-aa48-4bb3-a0b7-b191980edafe
Alberta Diamond Occurrences Dataset - (ASCII GRID)	Unknown		https://static.ags.aer.ca/files/document/DIG/DIG_2007_0009.zip

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