THis one could be interesting and may find more in there Diamond Pipes than Rxd?
Mano River Resources Inc - News Release
Mano discovers third kimberlite pipe in KPO Range
Mano River Resources Inc MNO
Shares issued 89,797,670 2001-03-15 close $0.1
Tuesday Mar 27 2001 News Release
Mr. Tom Elder reports
Mano River Resources has discovered a third previously unmapped kimberlite pipe in the company's Kpo Range licence in western Liberia.
Mano prioritized its Kpo Range licence in its continuing diamond exploration program as there were no known kimberlites to explain the reported extensive alluvial diamond occurrences. Numerous anomalies having been identified in its detailed stream sediment program, the first kimberlite pipe to be discovered, K001 (announced in December last year), was found in outcrop in a riverbed upstream of a strongly anomalous sample, while loam sampling on a 100-metre by 100-metre grid over an adjacent area of three square kilometres resulted in the discovery of the second kimberlite pipe, designated K002, approximately 1,800 metres north of K001.
The new kimberlite, K003, is located approximately 300 metres to the northeast of K001. It occupies a swampy area that has been subjected to artisanal diamond mining for some time, where the miners are recovering diamonds from the surface weathering zone of the kimberlite. Delineation pitting has so far exposed the K003 kimberlite for a strike distance of 120 metres by a width of 100 metres, and it remains open-ended to the east and west, suggesting the presence of a pipe with an approximate surface area of one to two hectares. Delineation pitting will continue until the surface area has been mapped to an accuracy of minus 25 metres. Examination of K003 shows that that both diatreme and hypabyssal facies are present in the body (consistent with it being a kimberlite pipe), and a heavy mineral concentrate sample taken downstream has yielded G10 garnets and diamond inclusion chromites.
Representative samples from K003 are being collected and shipped to Lakefield Laboratories in Canada for microdiamond analysis. Meanwhile, the results from microdiamond determinations on samples from K001 and K002 are expected from Lakefield Laboratories by the end of the month.
Mano continues to be very encouraged by the progress of its diamond program, believing that further kimberlite pipes will be discovered in this new cluster. Furthermore, based on the mineral chemistry data so far generated and the close proximity to active alluvial diamond workings, Mano believes there is a reasonable basis to expect that some of these kimberlites could prove to be diamondiferous.
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