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To: jack hampton who wrote (16333)	3/21/1999 8:44:00 PM
From: Rocket Red	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 26850

Jack good assesment but one the rock is Granite very hard and durable. I would think the dyke kimberlite is also soft easy to mine. As for a start up of 500m I have my doubts its that high they could put a mine up for that kind of cash. PS Walt would be the best to answer this.

To: jack hampton who wrote (16333)	3/21/1999 8:58:00 PM
From: stanley new	Respond to of 26850

Jack, I have no idea if you are correct, as I know nothing of such mining, but I want to thank you for a most interesting post regarding methods and costs of mining. Your post was one of the most informative and enjoyable I have read today. Please continue. SN

To: jack hampton who wrote (16333)	3/21/1999 10:20:00 PM
From: teevee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26850

jack, If I recall correctly from an early tour at Lupin, perma-frost extends to depths of about 500 meters. This requires cemented (tailings) backfill in the stopes to prevent them from filling up with ice. The stopes were rather large, about 20 meters wide, I couldn't see the top of them and up to 70 or 80 meters long. The roof and floor on the "dyke" at Snap lake is paragneiss(hopefully one that will not exfoliate, cave or sluff, layer by layer). The kimberlite is not serpentinized, however the footwall and hangingwall contacts should be narrow, clay rich, serpentinized slips(maybe the kimberlite will break clean with little dilution?)... I'm not a miner, however, this may help you comment further on the mining method and likely cost. regards, teevee

To: jack hampton who wrote (16333)	3/22/1999 10:14:00 AM
From: Walt	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 26850

The kimberlite I have seen from WSP dyke is a grey (slight green tinge) fine grained homogeneous competent rock. It would appear to be harder and less suseptable to weathering then material from most pipes. As for logistics, if WSP and Kennedy Lake were to go ahead as Vaughn pointed out it might be easier to put a port on the east arm of great slave lake and run a road north to the sites. If you look at the map these sites are alot closer to the Mcleaod bay on Great Slave then they are to Yellowknife via the winter road. Years ago when tundra mines etc were in operation there was a small port there, so it might be an answer to some of the logistics. There is a rail like to Hay River and then barge to the port and truck north from there. regards Walt