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Non-Tech : Northern Empire Minerals (NEM.V)
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To: TheSlowLane who started this subject7/2/2003 4:28:46 PM
From: jrhana  Read Replies (2) of 92
 
Churchill has more Kimberlites

To me this looks promising (in a nut shell):

<To date, the kimberlite pipes have been described by the field personnel as multi-phased including: (a) olivine ilmenite macrocrystic magmatic phase with occasional juvenile lapilli; (b) heterolithic tuffsitic kimberlite breccia with crustal xenoliths and kimberlite autoliths and/or juvenile lapilli; and (c) olivine macrocrystic hypabyssal kimberlite. This is suggestive that preserved crater, diatreme and hypabyssal facies kimberlite pipes exist at the Churchill Property. Full petrographic and mineral chemistry studies are underway and will be conducted on each of the kimberlite pipes.>

biz.yahoo.com

Now that we have cleared that up in layman's terms we can rely on the Rocket our old friend

stockhouse.com

And as this guy pointed out they have cleared up some ambiguity and short fodder by clearly calling them pipes:

stockhouse.com;

The NR clearly calls all seven kimberlites identified to date pipes:
<This brings the total number of kimberlite pipes discovered on the property to seven. After this drill hole, the drill will move on to test clusters of magnetic anomalies 20km away from the kimberlite pipes drilled to date.>

No more dyke trash talk

<Kimberlite samples will be submitted for petrographic, indicator mineral and diamond analysis.>

Keep your fingers crossed and do not forget (as Elizabeth Andrews said here on this thread):

<The bad part of the discovery process in the diamond exploration business is that it is painfully slow. There's a long lag time between sampling, by drill hole or otherwise, and results. Also, the distribution of diamonds in a deposit is the classic "nugget" effect so large bulk samples are required to establish a meaningful grade and size distribution.>

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