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To: Chas. who wrote (5012)	2/2/1998 10:47:00 PM
From: Walt	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 26850

Slow down chuck or you may hurt yourself with all these questions all at once. You would have to ask WSP for all the details but I'll give you my quess. They will scrape off the overburden with a cat down to bed rock and I seem to recall there is about twelve feet of overburden. So the first step is to put in a big overburden trench to expose the top of the dyke. Then with an airtrack drill they will probably drill and blast into the kimberlite. At that point they will either load up trucks and cover them or for bulk samples alot of companies use big fiber plastic bags which they fill and put ontop of pallets then move them onto flatbeds. On an earlier post I think it was George said WSP has asked three different facilities for bids to process the material. Kennecots One in Yellowknife that did abers sample, one in BC and I forget the third. No doubt that will be announced in time. It will probably take a month or so to get the bulk sample out and to YK. I probably could have arranged to go along for the ride there and back, but at this time of year there is not alot to see untill they start the actual work. ie drilling trenching etc. Im sure by then only WSP people and contractors will be allowed on the job. Regards Walt