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Gold/Mining/Energy : A CANADIAN DIAMOND HUNT -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ray Hughes who wrote (354)	6/24/1998 3:25:00 PM
From: bill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 930

I'd like to confirm what you've said about diamonds breaking during processing. The problems that come from breaking are the result of internal flaws. The idea of diamonds breaking may have come about from two sources. One, an early diamond pipe that had a high carat count had such poor quality diamonds that it wasn't economic. Two, again in the early days, the crushing of some ore was done improperly and resulted in reports of broken diamonds. The third possibility, of course, is that blaming the process may be covering up the fact that a large percentage of diamonds in a pipe a flawed. If dynamiting the ore doesn't shatter unflawed diamonds then itis unlikely that the crushing of kimberlite would do it.