Folks, news out of MountHope Res. today is in reference to property right beside MMU's, with the reported geochem samples taken from land that drains Marum's.
I asked Marum president Rick Boulay about this, and he offered the following comments (posted here with his knowledge):
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"Jesse: In response to your question about today's Mount Hope news release, yes, the samples were taken within one or two km of the Mount Hope-Marum property boundary from streams draining the area towards the Mount Hope-Marum boundary. The described anomaly cluster lies on Mount Hope land along the boundary. The individual anomalies represent part, approximately half, of a cluster of anomalies. The other half lies on the Marum side, with one or two anomalies being bisected by the property line. It just happens that this is one of the clusters that Marum will be investigating in the New Year. The geochemistry is really outstanding and is confirmed by our own work. The entire area is now covered by 200 metre spaced Spectra airmagnetics.
"Mount Hope's work has been first class throughout and George Read, their consultant (formerly of Debeer's) is a first rate diamond geologist. They have some very, very good targets. The discovery of the sub-calcic G-10 is profoundly important in the context of the stream drainage direction and the localized nature of the drainage sampling area. It also corroborates some nearby geochemical results from one of our earlier surveys where we collected some kimberlite indicators, including a super-chrome G-12 indicator. The area holds a lot of promise and we will concentrate on the adjacent Marum ground in the New Year.
"You can pass on these comments providing you attribute them to me.
Regards, Rick Boulay, Marum Resources Inc." /
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Here's the MH news release:
MOUNT HOPE RESOURCES CORP.
- Microprobe Results From Buffalo Hills Reveals Additional Kimberlitic Indicators -
Scott Angus, President of Mount Hope Resources Corporation is pleased to announce that the Company has received electron microprobe data of indicators recovered from the Haro River region on the Company's northwestern Alberta property. The results confirm the presence of kimberlitic indicators in the region where Mount Hope has identified 8 magnetic anomalies and several, previously announced, kimberlitic indicators (news release 10/22/98). Five samples were taken by Apex Geoscience Limited from a creek in the Haro River region. The creek, from which the samples were taken, drains a limited area which contains 7 magnetic anomalies and is the same creek from which the Company has already recovered 5 kimberlitic indicators. The purpose of the additional sampling was to confirm the results of the original sampling program in this region.
The five samples collected by Apex were processed by Overburden Drilling Management of Nepean, Ontario and the microprobe work was carried out by the Ontario Geological Survey Geoscience Laboratory in Sudbury, Ontario. The microprobe analysis has confirmed that these samples have produced an additional 12 kimberlitic indicators (8 garnets and 4 chromic). These results bring the total number of kimberlitic indicators recovered in the region to 17, taken from 8 samples collected over a distance of approximately 2 kilometres. The indicators include, 11 kimberlitic garnets, including a subcalic G10 garnet considered to be the best indicator of diamondiferous kimberlites, 4 kimberlitic chromites and 2 kimberlitic clinopyroxenes. It is important to note that the indicators were recovered in a very concentrated area, containing the 7 geophysical anomalies. Management is extremely encouraged by these results and believe that the geophysical anomalies in the Haro River region warrant a high resolution geophysical survey to prioritize drill targets.
TEL: (604) 331-1601 Scott Angus, President FAX: (604) 623-4701 Mount Hope Resources Corporation
[NewsRelease found here: ase.ca ]
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Best Wishes to All,
-j
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