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Gold/Mining/Energy : ASHTON MINING OF CANADA (ACA) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Keith Utz who wrote (4820)	4/15/1998 4:21:00 PM
From: Jesse	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7966

Right, unless, logically, the sharp micros are fragments of the larger rounded macros that are being recovered. [Independent micros of the same time & source would naturally have been fully resorbed first]. - How would they fragment at this level? Only by drill or testing action, it would seem, but Ashton has addressed this in their NR's by stating such characteristics of the micros and macros. For example, this Oct.02/98 NR from Ashton: Microdiamonds Macrodiamonds Less than Greater than Sample 0.5mm 0.5mm Weight Crys- Frag- Crys- Frag- (kg) tals ments tals ments ------ ----- ------ ----- ------ Kimberlite and hole No. K14C-1, Sample 1* 43.4 58 270 3 90 Kimberlite and hole No. K14C-2, Sample 2 45.6 94 0 1 0 Total 89.0 152 270 4 90 --------------------------------------- The question(s) remains... - - - - Could anything else have caused their fracturing? -Are the mic/mac stones of the same quality? -j :>