Dianor investigates anomalies (September 10, 2001)

Dianor Resources (DOR-M) has begun a program of field work over 14 airborne magnetic anomalies in the James Bay region of Quebec.

The targets were identified from existing geophysical data and are indicative of kimberlite. They are associated with lakes or bogs and appear to be aligned in a general northerly orientation in the Wemindji-Caniapiscau structural corridor, which is prospective for kimberlite.

Five of the targets have been investigated. No obvious surface explanation for the magnetic features has been found. One of the anomalies, about 150 metres in diameter, is coincident with a vegetation anomaly.

The anomalies are clustered in a 100-sq.-km area. They are located in granitic terrain near several large diabase and ultramafic dykes.

Once the field examination is completed, till and soil sampling will begin.

Dianor has applied for 62 claims over an area measuring 31.6 sq. km.

The company has also staked 23 claims over three xenolithic lamprophyre diamond targets near its MEP 1404 property, 45 km southeast of Radisson, Que.

Rock, stream sediment, till and soil sampling are under way at MEP 1404 and surrounding areas.

Earlier this summer, Dianor reported the discovery of a microdiamond measuring 0.1 mm by 0.1 mm by 0.08 mm in bedrock on its nearby Yasinski North property. The stone was recovered from a 13.6-kg sample of lamprophyre dyke and is described as a yellow, clear octahedral-cube.