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To: George J. Tromp who wrote (5580)	4/3/1998 12:25:00 PM
From: bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26850

George, Did you mean macros aren't crushed giving errant counts? I remember early on there were som problems with crushing being done improperly an macros being broken. That problem seems to hve been solved. Caustic fusion gives accurate results because it doesn't risk damaging the diamonds but it is slow. The rock has to be dissolved. It would be a bit like heap leaching gold, I guess, to do a large amount of kimberlite and, I would think, impractical in terms of time and cost. I don't udnerstand, tough, how they don't risk breaking large diamonds in the milling process.

To: George J. Tromp who wrote (5580)	4/3/1998 5:58:00 PM
From: Chas.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 26850

Hi George........ Question for you... I held a hand full of greenish kimberlite once ,1994, it was from the Crystal Falls area of Michigans UP, it even had a real tiny pinkish to purple garnet in it, anyways, this stuff was real crumbly, my geologist buddy had a good sized box of it and all of it was like that, big chunks but crumbly. Is this typical?? In the post' regards the dyke materials it seems like they're always talking about big hard rocks..rock like structure,I know and appreciate that at -30 even sand will be hard as rock but I wonder if the kimberlite of Snap Lake dykes is crumbly or rock like?? About a week ago someone who had talked to Sophi(purething or surething I think) mentioned that it was going to be about 6 weeks to results from dyke material...approx...15 May or so.....I'm a little discouraged that they haven't found any thing drilling yet(at least not that their talking about)well we still have a month of drilling to go so there is still a lot of drilling to be done yet, hoping for the best...chuck