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To: whiskeyjack who wrote (13647)	1/30/1999 2:17:00 PM
From: Walt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26850

Good questions Whiskeyjack. For those of you who dont know a whiskeyjack is a canadian jay something like a blue jay only not as colourfull. They live in boreal forest and you cann't have a camp with a whiskey jack showing up. If you feed them they get quite bold and I've seen them try to steal bacon out of a hot frying pan. They supply alot of entertainment. Now to your questions. For number one carat grade and value, I really have no idea. I expect the dyke will have richer and leaner sections in it but have no real feeling yet for what will control them etc. For the original two pits and the sample they took they just picked the spots easiest to work on where the dyke came closest to surface. What are the chances of those spots being the richest or leanest of the dyke. 2. They have drilled enough holes to get a strike and dip on the dyke on the north shore so they will go to where they think it comes closest to surface, test the area with a few short holes I imagine and lay out the pit. So the holes you refered to did cut the dyke at depth but if they have the strike dip figuered out correstly it will come close to surface somewhere. The first pits had to go through around 12 feet of overburden I believe. 3. The first small pits they put in they just went through the overburden, drilled into the exposed dyke and took out the 500tons. This year they plan bigger bulk samples from three sites. I expect this will involve taking off the overburden and also removing some of the rook over the kimberlite. I expect they will use airtracks for drilling, cats for pushing the waste away to one side and a front end loader or small shovel for picking up the kimberlite and loading trucks. I expect they will start on the two existing pits and then move to the third at north shore. I also imagine trucks will start hauling as soon as possible So material will start arriving in town while they move from one pit to the other. I know the contract has been let to the same company to do both the extraction and the trucking and they are ready to get at it as soon as possible. Im quessing it will take 2-300 truck loads to get all the material to town. I expect they will do like last year and run each batch seperately so it depends weither they decide to release all the data at once or each batch seperately. It will be a busy camp with the extraction crew and their equipement, the trucks coming and going, the drill crew hard at work and the geologists keeping track of it all. Hopefully they will get it all done, if weather permits.Weather is the big variable. Its hard to work during a blizzard or severe cold snap but the crews are use to working in the north so should be able to deal with it. You didn't ask this one but if things look good, at some point I expect WSP to consider putting in a year round airstrip. Also i understand Monopros Mountain province is palaanning on taking a small bulk plant in to their sit so while BHP wont be hauling as much on the road this year WSP and Monpros will be hauling more so it should be a busy road. Hope this answers a few of your questions regards Walt