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200+ diamonds near James Bay: junior.


Metalex Ventures is reporting the recovery of 243 natural diamonds from processing a 190-kilogram drill core taken from the kimberlite kimberlite: see diamond.
kimberlite
 or blue ground

Dark, heavy, often fragmented igneous rock that may contain diamonds in the rock matrix.
 pipe at their T1 project near James Bay James Bay, shallow southern arm of Hudson Bay, c.300 mi (480 km) long and 140 mi (230 km) wide, E central Canada, in Nunavut Territory between Ont. and Que. Numerous rivers flow into the bay; many of these have been developed for hydroelectric power in Quebec (see .

The company says in an April 7 release that the result equates to 127 diamonds per 100 kilograms and is much higher than the average of 19.4 diamonds per 100 kilograms reported in February.

Also recovered were ten peridotitic garnets Garnets may have the following meanings
  • Plural for "Garnet".
  • Garnets, an obsolete unit of dry volume in Imperial Russia.
 normally associated with kimberlite that contains high diamond grades.

The T1 project is 80 kilometres west of the future De Beers Canada Victor diamond mine.

T1 is a joint venture between Metalex (91.5 per cent project operator) and Arctic Arctic

area of constant cold. [Geography: WB, A:600]

See : Coldness



(language, music) Arctic - A real-time functional language, used for music synthesis.

["Arctic: A Functional Language for Real-Time Control", R.B.
 Star Diamond Corp (8.5 per cent).
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Date:May 1, 2006
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