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To: Letmebe Frank who wrote (394)	3/28/2002 12:29:14 PM
From: jpthoma1	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 613

Yes Frank, impossible to download the the .pdf file about the Freightrain pipe. Were you able do download them Artie? JP

To: Letmebe Frank who wrote (394)	3/28/2002 1:54:41 PM
From: Artie	Respond to of 613

If you e.mail the author (dzhao@sc.edu) and ask him for the PDF for Chapter 4, he will probably send it to you. Or you could fax him: Dr. Donggao Zhao at (803) 777 8908 - he's at the University of South Carolina. As part of a larger work - a PhD thesis, he sampled the Nikos kimberlite on Somerset and Zulu at Jackson Inlet. Here is his description of Zulu (Freightrain): "The Zulu kimberlite is the first discovery of kimberlites on Baffin Island and consists of two outcrops, which are separated by approximately 90 meters of limestone strata. The larger southerly outcrop has a surface area of approximately 30 x 40 meters. The smaller northerly outcrop is roughly circular with dimensions of approximately 30 x 35 meters." Much of the 38 page study of the xenoliths from Nikos and Zulu is beyond me. However, I found it interesting that there is no mention of any diamonds being encountered in his sampling, and the abstract of this chapter ends: "Therefore, diamond and graphite, if any, tend to be destroyed by the late metasomatic event represented by the MORID fluid or melt." This applies to some xenoliths on Somerset, but it's unclear whether it applies to Zulu xenoliths. This could explain the lack of enthusiasm for diamond exploration in this area. The results reported yesterday removed any doubt about the presence of diamonds in Freightrain. There is some doubt, though, about the configuration of the rock unit that was sampled and therefore some question about the significance of the samples. Instead of representing the number, size and quality of diamonds from a 228 ton bulk sample of a defined resource, the results indicate the diamond content of rock from 6 unconnected surface pits strung out across 250 meters of a magnetic anomaly. Impressive and interesting but statisticaly ambiguous if not meaningless. The rock may be from multiple eruptions OR there could be more than one kimberlite in the 500 meter magnetic anomaly depicted in Twin's annual report. IMHO to declare that there IS a mine and then work backwards to convince everybody, disregards basic exploration procedures, is costly in time & money and very frustrating for the shareholders.