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Gold/Mining/Energy : Canadian Diamond Play Cafi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Diamond Daze who wrote (367)	12/9/2002 9:44:57 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 16207

Well like I always told you, not everybody with a degree or the license to raise money knows all the technology. Many only do electron probe. That alone will not tell you the tale Many use only Gurney's charts. Again they are not the sole arbiter. Many do not use proton probe, nickel, zinc, or chromite. How they could follow an eclogitic or lamproitic train is a mystery. DeBeers had the Argyle ground for several years and failed to determine anything promising about its chemistry. It has been wrongly reported that it requires several hundred tons of blind testing to determine wether or not you have a shot, that is is all big money. In fact cheap testing is all that is require in order to tell if you should hold ground... from a postive stance. It will not nor can any test ever determine, what you might miss from lack of data or looking at a new or unsuspected situation. I have been unwilling in the past to say too much as it just gives too much information to people who think that they can profit by it at your expense. Wildcat had the ground and it had the targets and it had them in the discovery area. Other lesser lights in Canabrava or in other companies with better backing, did not think much of our work. At any rate they did not have to work with us they thought nor did they need our expertise. I don't see them with any diamond mines and it has been 7 years since we held ground in there. I recognise anyone can miss, but we had far superior knowledge and we were not even given a chance. One of the names who wrote a report for us, was the first person in Ontario to drill diamonds in situ in Ontario, for Monopros. I will remain bitter about Wawa and the Canadian investor and also about the NWT for the rest of my life. I predicted the existence of a diamond field correctly 5 years before any company held a single claim and we were met with a massive wall of ignorance, intrigue and double dealing. Not that any of it is new, or unexpected, but it a damned shame. The people who missed out the most are the people who did not invest. The time is getting late for me. I will never give up. But I am changing my tune from now on. EC<:-}

To: Diamond Daze who wrote (367)	12/11/2002 3:29:47 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 16207

Well olivine is one of the main constituents of kimberlite but it is a phenocryst not a xenocryst, and I cannot see anyone chasing olivines themselves as they have many other sources besides kimberlite. It is pyrope, pyroxene, low titanium ilmenite and chromite that identify kimberlite and they are the indicators that you should use in float, in general not olivine. You can use olivine to determine fugacity of the kimberlite in the iron oxide ratios therein, but to use it as a indicator for float tracing is dangerous. Majors often let land go because they believe that the juniors have to come to them for second stage money anyway. The often as Kennecott did, do sampling for first rights of refusal which ties up the junior anyway and lets them outbid on any project. That is why I will not sign a first rights agreement. EC<:-}