To: Diamond Daze who wrote (3636 ) 12/16/1999 4:19:00 PM From: russet Respond to
Kennecott has recently advised the Joint Venture partners that planning for the upcoming winter exploration program has been completed. A ground geophysical program focused on high priority targets within the Whitefish Lake and Kap South claims will commence in January, with drilling scheduled to follow by month's end. In addition, a high resolution helicopter-borne magnetic/EM survey will be flown over a high priority target area in early January. Results for this survey will be available prior to the commencement of drilling. Additional drill targets are expected to be forthcoming from this survey. All contracts to support the winter program, including the airborne geophysics, ground geophysics, drilling, helicopter and line cutting, have been let. Good progress has been made on the EIS and the report is expected to be completed by the end of January 2000. The first field program which collected base line data representing the dry season was completed in mid-November. Work included water sampling and analysis, river flow rate studies, fauna and flora baseline studies, socioeconomic consultations with the local communities as well as industrial and commercial interest groups, and consultations with the federal and state environmental authorities. A second field program to collect representative data for the wet season was initiated at the beginning of December and should be completed before Christmas. canabrava.ca .
