Newly-partnered Tres-Or Resources (TRS-V) and Arctic Star Diamond (ADD-V) cut kimberlite on the first hole they drilled on their Temagami North joint venture near New Liskeard, Ont.
The hole intersected weathered and serpentinized kimberlitic breccia at 93 metres down hole (80 vertical metres) and ended in kimberlite at 251 metres (about 200 vertical metres).
The magnetic signature of the pipe is double-lobed and has a 20-hectare surface area.
The kimberlitic breccia is greenish-grey and calcite-rich. It has a macrocrystic texture with rare chrome-pyrope garnets, chrome diopsides, forsteritic olivine, black oxides and limestone xenoliths up to 2 cm in diameter.
A second hole tested the southern edge of the western lobe. Kimberlite-breccia was intersected from 63-97 metres down hole (51-79 metres vertical depth) before entering granite.
The western lobe of the kimberlite has a width of at least 250 metres along this north-south section and it is still open to the north.
A third and fourth hole will test the eastern lobe and the northern boundary of the western lobe.
One-half of the split core will be sent for diamond content analysis. In addition some core will be studied to glean petrological information. Indicator minerals in the core will be microprobed to check if they have similar compositions to those found in the down-ice till samples.
The property hosts more than ten high priority targets.
Arctic Star has an option to earn a half-interest in the Temagami North Expansion property.
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