Dominion Diamond Corporation Provides Correction to Ekati LOM Plan and Update on Ekati Technical Report

8 July 2016

YELLOWKNIFE, NT (July 8, 2016) - Dominion Diamond Corporation (TSX: DDC, NYSE: DDC) (the "Company" or "Dominion") provides a correction to the life of mine cost forecast that was released on July 6, 2016, which contained a transcription error. This correction does not affect other economic assessments in that release. The corrected costs can be found in the table below.