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To: Andrew who wrote (11064)	1/3/1999 2:39:00 PM
From: teevee	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 26850

Hi Andrew, No one to my knowledge has seen the apex/feeder of a cone sheet. The possibilities are: 1. a blind pipe is present (rather than erupting to surface, a cone sheet was injected). If the grades are like the cone sheet, and it is large in diameter, it could easily be mined by block caving methods. this has been done, and at even greater depths. 2. the feeder zone/vent area pinched off or closed up again after the type II kimberlite magma was injected. I think that we could expect a deep hole or two to look for the blind pipe, if it is there. When I try to imagine the power required to lift a bowl shaped block of rock about 4 to 5 kilometers in diameter and about 700 meters deep at the apex, an average of 2.6 meters to inject over 100 million tonnes of highly diamondiferous kimberlite magma, it must be one hell of a feeder zone!!!If a blind pipe is there, it could be the "monster from the NWT". regards, teevee

To: Andrew who wrote (11064)	1/3/1999 2:46:00 PM
From: .Trev	Respond to of 26850

Hi Andrew, sorry to be late on the scene this a.m. Note I didn't say that it was SAFE to assume the N.Shore subcrop extension just fair. Whether it is subcrop or pinch out the fact remains that we don;t yet know the extent or the location and it really doesn't pay to guess these things. Same thing applies to your question about economically mining at depth. Some of the SAf gold mines are at 5000 m depth but you can't guess at it you have to know where it is and what it is and then figure it out. Lots and lots of drilling and analysis to do before we get to that stage. We are all rushing to get ahead of ourselves and the exploration and if you get too far ahead you just fall flat on your a**. Andrew the Management reports in the quarterlies are very informative and available on Sedar.com. The last one was filed Nov 30 for Sept 30 and another one is due for Dec 31 together with the anual repoct of the same date. Also there's the Cordilleran convention at the end of this month so there's going to be lots of coverage of WSP. And lots to read, learn and inwardly digest. Cheers PS Quarterlies are filed as form 61 BTW