Ashton cuts kimberlite in Quebec

Vancouver — The initial results from an ongoing drill program by Ashton Mining of Canada (ACA-T) has the potential of heating up the diamond hunt in north-central Quebec.

Targeting the Otish Mountains joint-venture project, Ashton’s first geophysical target returned promising widths of kimberlite. The first hole, drilled vertically, cut kimberlite at 10 metres down-hole and terminated in the promising rock at 108 metres. The second hole was collared from the same site, angled at 70 degrees and cut 108 metres of kimberlite. This hole also bottomed in the kimberlite body. The drill rig has now moved onto the second anomaly.

Ashton is drill testing anomalies discovered during a geophysical survey over the Otish Mountains region in late 2000. Several of these targets were reported to be near highly anomalous indicator mineral sample sites. Certain samples contained favourable high-chromium, low-calcium G10 pyrope garnets and picroilmenites. This summer, more than 350 heavy mineral samples were collected. Samples taken near eight of the geophysical anomalies were analyzed, and several of the down-ice samples returned what Ashton says are “significant concentrations of indicator minerals.”

In partnership with Quebec government-owned Soquem, the pair holds some 1,760-sq.-km of promising ground in the region.

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