Partners Winspear Resources (WSP-V) and Aber Resources (ABZ-T) have intersected 107 metres of a complex kimberlite breccia in the Snap Lake area of the Camsell Lake diamond project in the Northwest Territories.
Owned 57.3% by Winspear and 42.7% by Aber, the project lies 225 km northeast of Yellowknife.
A hole drilled vertically into a land-based, low-Magnetic target cut kimberlite breccia between 103 and 210 metres before passing into relatively fresh, unaltered granite. The hole bottomed in granite at a depth of 247 metres.
Winspear President Randy Turner says the low-Magnetic anomaly is likely the result of the overlying altered granite rather than of underlying kimberlite.
Caustic fusion analysis on the diamonds revealed several pyropes and a single coarse chromite grain.
To date, Winspear has drilled 24 holes over 4,100 metres, testing geophysical and geochemical targets in areas where diamondiferous boulders and anomalous concentrations of pyrope garnets and chromites were discovered. Ten of those holes intersected kimberlite dykes, intervals of which range from several centimetres to 3.2 metres true width.
In total, three macrodiamonds, measuring more than 0.5 mm in at least one direction, were observed in the dyke intersections. Winspear believes the same dyke feature may have been hit by several holes.
About 1,000 metres of drilling remain in the spring program, and the final holes will test targets covered by water.
The partners have increased the spring drill budget by $100,000. The additional funds will be used to extend the property’s ground geophysical grids and drill follow-up holes in the vicinity of the recent kimberlite discovery.
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