Kimberley Diamond - Pit 5 Sampling - 2nd Pass Complete.VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 17, 1996--KIMBERLEY DIAMOND CO.(AUSTRALIAN STOCK EXCHANGE Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) Australia's major securities market, formed when the six state stock exchanges (Adelaide, Brisbane, Hobart, Melbourne, Perth, and Sydney stock exchanges) were merged in 1987. : KDC KDC Key Distribution Center KDC Katholiek Documentatie Centrum KDC Kerrier District Council (UK) KDC Kodak Digital Camera format (file extension) KDC Kurt Donald Cobain KDC.O VSE See DOS/VSE. VSE - Virtual Storage Extended : KDC KDC.WT ) has completed rechecking of Sortex concentrates from the Pit 5 sample in the Blina area. Two additional diamonds weighing a total of 0.95 carats were recovered during the recheck. Fourteen diamonds have now been recovered from Pit 5 weighing a total of 6.3 carats. A total of 250 tonnes of gravel were processed from Pit 5 and the diamonds recovered from the 0.8 to 10 millimetre size fraction. The largest of the latest diamonds recovered from Pit 5 weighed 0.81 carats. It is white in colour and is a cleavage cleavage, tendency of many minerals to split along definite smooth planar surfaces determined by their crystal structure. The directions of these surfaces are related to weaknesses in the atomic structure of the mineral and are always parallel to a possible crystal fragment broken from a larger stone. The smaller stone weighs 0.14 carats, has a deep pinkish orange colour and is dodecahedral in shape. Recent mapping in the vicinity of Pit 5 indicates that the gravel in this area is related to an ancient river terrace. This terrace has been identified in scattered Scattered Used for listed equity securities. Unconcentrated buy or sell interest. surface exposures over a distance of about 6 kilometres. KDC will be taking two additional bulk samples from gravels within the terrace that includes Pit 5 over the next two weeks. Processing of samples from the 8 other Pits excavated during the current program in continuing. Results will be released as they come to hand. CONTACT: Kimberley Diamond Company NL Miles Kennedy, 1-9/21-5887 (Australia) 61-9-321-5884 (Fax) or Martyn Element & Associates Robert Matthews Robert Matthews may refer to:
604/687-6328 (Fax) |
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