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Maybe a Diamond play also, SKE is looking.
SDM still own's 1/4 of ICE PROPERTY. + stock in SKE.
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August 20, 1999
Trading Symbol SKE:VSE
Micro-diamond results from Ice claim Project, B.C.
Skeena Resources Limited is pleased to announce micro-diamond analytical results from its Ice Claim Project
located at Elkford in southeastern British Columbia. The samples were collected prior to Skeena's involvement in the
project and have recently been processed by Lakefield Research Limited using a caustic dissolution technique.
A total of six white, transparent, well-preserved micro-diamond fragments were obtained from 177kg of weathered,
highly carbonate-contaminated, surface material from the "Bonus" kimberlite pipe. The Bonus pipe had not
previously been bulk-sampled except geochemically for diamond indicator minerals.
One white, transparent, well-preserved micro-diamond was obtained from 89 kg of weathered, highly
carbonate-contaminated, surface material from the "Ram 5" kimberlite. In 1996, a bulk sample from this pipe yielded
three good quality, clear, tetrahexahedron macro-diamonds weighing 0.255 carats from 35 tons of material of which
at least 95% was non-kimberlitic. The extraneous material comprised either slough from the hanging-wall of the pipe,
collapse breccia from an over-lying crater facies, or included wall-rock brought up by the pipe's intrusion through
several thousand feet of carbonate-sequence rocks.
No micro-diamonds were recovered from 89 kg of material from the "Ram 6" pipe. In 1996, a 20 ton bulk sample,
similarly contaminated and comprising 90 or 95% non-kimberlite material, yield 3 poor quality macro-diamonds, the
two largest stones weighing a combined 0.23 carats.
Kimberlite indicator minerals were abundant in concentrate recovered from the trench material of all three exposed
pipes in the 1996-97 sampling program. To date, a substantial number of G9 and G10 garnets, chromites having
diamond inclusion field compositions, and attractive picro-ilmenites have been identified. The compositions suggest
the possibility of diamonds from both garnet-harzburgite and chromite-harzburgite sources may be present.
Appreciable numbers of small xenoliths of mantle peridotite and eclogite were also recovered, especially from the
Ram 5 locality.
The exposure of these three kimberlitic intrusives on a steep side-slope appears to preclude obtaining a quality
bulk-sample by surface trenching. In order to better understand the extraneous material included in these pipes, and
to better examine their contacts, a core drilling program will now be proposed.
A field program of additional stream sediment sampling to delineate previously obtained positive indicator minerals
anomalies will commence next week.
Skeena can earn up to a 75% interest in the Ice Claim option and the remaining 25% is available to the Company for
purchase upon completion of a feasibility study. |
