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To: George J. Tromp who wrote (1652)	11/14/1998 11:56:00 PM
From: George J. Tromp	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2251

Walt Humphries has asked me to pass this along to Winspear shareholders., just received it this evening., with a note explaining he is having some computer glitches to deal with.,. Walter you can e-mail me at miner450@aol.com., in the future., it was routed thru my old e-mail address., SI Unable to get on SI with my computer, can monitor but not post. Hopeful someone will post this for me. Teevees cone theory. It has some merit but to visualize this get a plastic kitchen funnel. The type with a narrow spout on the bottom, which suddenly flares out to the circular cone shaped funnel part. That's your basic shape now heat it up in the oven so you can flatten the top part out to a 12 degree slope. And fill the bottom spout part with plastic. Now you have a pipe coming up, the spout spiget part, which suddenly turns into a circular cone shaped dyke with the correct dip. The thickness of the plastic would represent the thickness of the dyke and voila you have a model of the thing. Now imagine the funnel encased in country rock including inside the funnel, up to almost the rim and snap lake would be inside the funnel rim. Cover this with overburden. Now if the model were true you should be able to start removing overburden and follow that rim all the way around until you get back where you started. (If you want to visualize a series of cone shaped dykes do what I have suggested only start with two or three funnels and stick them into each other so there is one central pipe or feeder and the various dykes seperated by a bit of country rock. This would of course be a perfect model for a probable more complex structure. The thickness of the dyke its angles etc will vary. So play around with you plastic kitchen funnels of metal round gas funnels and you will be able to visualize the thing. Now to the sampling. They are running the cores and the portion of the bulk sample they have left to get a total micro diamond counts. Theoretically the micro diamond counts will correspond somewhat with the macro diamonds. The trouble with cores and small samples of this structure is that it is unlikely you will come up with big diamonds in a small sample. Going back to the old raisen bread analogy, you could take a lot of chunks of the bread without hitting a raisen. So it is possible to drill a hole, drill a lot of holes and hit the dyke but never hit one of the raisens or big diamonds, I recon they hope the micro diamond counts will thus help determine the grade by extrapolation. Even the small portion of the bulk sample they are running might not contain any big daimonds. That is entirely possible when you think about it. Imagine a bag full of ten thousand white marbles with five black marbles in it. If you examine all the marbles in the bag the ratio is ten thousand white to three black, that would sort of represent the bulk sample. Now just reach into the bag and pull out ten, twenty or thirty marbles. That is what they are analysing now and what are your chances of getiing a black marble. Not great. I expect most are going to be confused about the mini sample and the cores because big diamonds just aren't liable to appear. Even the micro diamond counts are going to a little difficult to interpret because in a sample what is the true relationship of micros to macros. Does it necessarily follow that the more micros you have the more maacros you have. I don't know. So WSP could be in for a bit of a rocky ride until they start the winter work to do more drilling to extend the dyke. Maybe it is a cone sheet, only a lot more drilling will tell. Plus the next big bulk sample will certainly help establish grade. How uniform is the grade is another important consideration. Prts of the dyke could give lower values and parts could give higher values. Time will tell. Regards all Walt Thanks Walt., Sincerely George J. Tromp