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Gold/Mining/Energy : Winspear Resources - Eric Charters Only!
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To: Eashoa' M'sheekha who wrote (17)10/6/1998 2:35:00 AM
From: E. Charters  Read Replies (2) of 99
 
I have seen one in Aber's core shown to me by Eira Thomas which was between 3 and five Carats and was not resorbed at all. It had stair step fine crystal faces and no scoring or etching. The glass was clear, white and no inclusions visual. I would say VVSI and worth hundreds a carat. I have seen plenty of low quality one carat diamonds from Ontario and the odd small one in panning in Alberta.

The largest tale is the 1000 carat diamond that was supposed to have been found near Kirkland Lake, Ontario. It is from a turn of the century newspaper in Ontario.

I used to take geology form R. Mitchell who was one of the first persons to find significant diamonds in situ in Canada in Somerset Island with Cominco. About 20 years ago Cominco had a large scale diamond exploration program all over North America. They found good kimberlites with some diamonds in Colorado and Wyoming. Later one of those pipes would produce with a company called Redauram in the 1990's.

DeBeers started exploring in Canada in 1962. They had crews poking around outside my home in Northern Ontario. I heard from some senior geologists from Hud bay, a company owned by DeBeers, about 30 years later that they had found 3 economic pipes in Ontario, that if they had been in South Africa would have been in production. DeBeers or any subsidiary was not allowed to profit from enterprise in Canada (CDN law) at the time so nothing could go into production. They had never except in Tanzania ever produced outside South Africa anyway no matter what they found, so the story rings true. I know in two areas that they looked there are kimberlite pipes and this info is not widely known at all. It is not in print anywhere.

There are plenty of other stories. There are diamonds found in the US from Missouri to Michigan. Over 20,000 diamonds were found in Michigan at the turn of the century in sluice boxes. More diamonds in alluvium than in any other place in the world. Some ran to 80 carats and their colour was frequently a pale green. Their source was assumed to be very far away in Canada. This is probably not true.

A little coloured girl found a diamond in Missouri that was yellow and 20 carats. She always told her friends that it was a diamond and of course they and her parents laughed. 20 years later she took it to a jeweller and he did not laugh. It was the real thing. No glaciers went as far as Missouri. No one has looked for diamonds in that state.

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