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Gold/Mining/Energy : IPSCO Inc. Diamond in Saskatchewan -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jack marshall who wrote (3)	11/26/1998 5:44:00 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12

Before the public announcement was made that kimberlite rock had been found at Sturgeon Lake Saskatchewan it had been suggested that kimberlite pipes might be present in the Fort a'la Corne Forest. A geologist working for Uranerz re- examined airborne magnetic maps produced jointly by the Geological Survey of Canada and the Saskatchewan Department of Mineral Resources under a Federal Provincial agreement between 1952 and 1970. On August 6, 1988 an interpretation was made that revealed a set of isolines forming a fascinating cluster of eleven anomalies resembling patterns similar to kimberlite provinces from outside the country. Five days later, a crew headed east from Prince Albert through rich wheat fields to an accessible anomaly in the bush. After nearly two hours of survey much of it in muskeg and over ground with fallen trees, a party of four took the first gamma reading of the magnetic field intensity on this single anomaly. Behind us was the time when the first of many kimberlite bodies in the Fort a'la Corne Forest, had been located exactly in the place where it was shown on the old maps derived from airborne surveys then flown to help locate ore bodies, such as the iron ore of Choiceland-Nipawin. The next day August 12, 1988, immediately after the initial verification in the bush, this and all other magnetic anomalies (not inside crown reserves) in two clusters were staked for diamonds by Uranerz Exploration and Mining Ltd. over and out - aj