To: Taz who wrote (27 ) 10/25/1998 12:16:00 PM From: E. Charters Respond to
Some of the Ontario Diapros, Monopros, and Debeers( specifically) pipe info drilled was only released circa 1991 - 1992 when the gov't requested it. The stuff was drilled on ELO's that had no requirement of publication. Some were drilled on held claims but mysteriously were never filed in assessment. Yet the ground continued to be held. Around 1981-3 the Federal gov't commissioned C Fipke to do a report on diamonds in Canada. He produced a 1000 page report on diamonds in conjunction with his work in the south Kootenays. (Mike Mark and Jack pipes) I was doing some work in diamonds for Selco (DeBeers associate) in the same area at the same time. The work done in Southern Ontario and other undisclosed but perhaps known places from 1968 to 1982 remains largely undocumented. This work was in part done by cominco and Lac minerals and other companies perhaps Falconbridge for undisclosed fees and under contract and the work was never reported to the gov't for assessment. Any claim work that was done was reported on unrelated matters. Allegedly from informed sources close to deBeers several (3) near/or economic pipes were found. We know of one in a certain mine that contained diamonds reported by a former Metal Company director. It would constitute a new area of interest and a logical alkaline centre in Canada. The work in Thunder Bay by large crews, several drilling companies and a busy office who contracted continuous aerial surveys and geophysical work for the past 20 years under the DeBeers banner has not been reported in the assessment files by ehaustive searches that I have done. I talked to a worker in geophysics whose main occupation in the past 12 years has been contracts for DeBeers in examining diaterme targets within 150 miles of Thunder Bay. He described a regime where about once every 2 weeks for that time the aerial program would locate a target and drop a crew into cut lines do ground geophysics and then air drop a drill and tractor to the site and drill that target, all completed within a ten day span. In the summer I sighted crews operating in the bush with 12 and 15 man camps with several all terrain vehicles colecting drift heavy mineral samples and field procesing with Kenyan diamond jigs in this area for a several year period. This work has continued unabated and unchanged, drilling perhaps as many as 600 to 1000 targets in this area since 1975. No information is available on any of it by any search in government files.
