There was a traffic jam in front of the Court House today. Senator Bernsten came back to town to appeal his conviction for double dipping out of his MLA account. Now the farmers are driving the tractors up and down the main street enraged because of the NHL bail out package.
It's a two hour jaunt to FALC from here, I'll post a report tomorrow. Off of highway 6, the IPSCO diamond claims are three miles and on the south side. This is where Imperial Oil first hit kimberlite in 1956. And now this first hand account by Dr. Strnad.
"What, however,let me to look into far away places? One afternoon in the first week of August 1988 I spent checking magnetic pattern on another map sheet. Suddenly, there was in dark pink on yellow background a set of beautifully curved isolines forming a cluster of eleven anomalies, nearly resembling what I knew from other kimberlite provinces beyond Canada. On August 11th with the map in my pocket, we were heading directly for the most accessible anomaly which in my register of many got serial number 16. Right here, in the center of the Fort a la Corne bush, after nearly two hours of surveying in the swamp, our party of four was at the station No. 2 exactly at 1:45 p.m. and Mike Lepin received the last reading of 59,919 gamma. Behind us at that time was the first ground location of the future kimberlite bodies in this mysterious forest. Once again, thanks to precision of Her Majesty's map in the right hands and after many years to their initial purpose, the crucial move in looking for another commodity has been decisively accomplished. A year later, after the drilling supervised by Klaus Kogler and Brian Schreiner, Bob Buchan phoned me on August 22nd that he's got two diamonds, the first ever received from this kimberlite field."
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