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New diamond-bearing area discovered in Rondônia, Brazil
The Company is pleased to announce that its regional kimberlitic indicator minerals survey on its claims in Rondônia has recently recovered a 0.35-carat, white dodecahedral diamond and a 0.02-carat, white octahedral diamond in surficial sediments. The samples were from a newly surveyed area some considerable distance from the previously announced diamond discoveries. Garnets with keliphitic alteration rims, fresh Cr diopsides and fresh ilmenites accompanied the diamonds. The presence of keliphitic rims around the garnets is clear indication of minimal transport after erosion and suggests the proximity of a buried kimberlite body.
The region from which this diamond was obtained has been designated as the fourth high-priority target area in Sola’s search for additional diamond-bearing kimberlite bodies beyond the diamond-bearing Carolina pipe. A follow-up investigation program of all these new diamond-bearing anomalies has now commenced using ground-geophysical survey equipment. This will enable the quantification of the area of any kimberlite bodies.
The Company is recording continued success with its regional program of residual soil and stream sediment sampling on its current 2985.7 square kilometer claim block. The property is located in the eastern region of Rondônia State, Brazil. These new discoveries support the exploration model suggesting there are numerous, as yet undiscovered, kimberlites in the region.
Jan. 26, 2007
Sola’s Carolina diamondiferous kimberlite in Rondônia
Sola’s Carolina diamondiferous kimberlite in Rondônia shows increased tonnage potential and appears to have an associated kimberlite cluster.
Sola Resource Corporation (“the Company”) has now received preliminary interpretations of ground-based magnetometer surveys over the Carolina kimberlite pipe and its immediate environs.
Data from the magnetic survey of the Carolina pipe reveal that the pipe has a probable area of 2.1 hectares (5.2 acres), almost twice the area previously estimated by surface prospecting. This expansion of the pipe’s potential tonnage is in part validated by a limited shallow drill program, performed in 2006, which located kimberlite outside the pipe’s boundary estimated during the original geological survey of the area.
The magnetometer survey data have also revealed at least three (3) other anomalies in the immediate vicinity of the Carolina pipe with the same magnetic signature as the pipe. These anomalies have thus been interpreted as other potential kimberlite bodies which form part of a local cluster of volcanic centres.
Work is continuing on the magnetometer survey with a view towards the identification of any further pipes in this cluster. Concurrent with the geophysical investigation, Sola’s operator is immediately pushing ahead with more detailed mineralogical/geochemical investigation of the magnetic anomalies and with a shallow drill program to sample the bedrocks at these localities.
Thomas Kovacs, CEO of the Company, stated that . . .”The news of these discoveries clearly demonstrates the acumen of our exploration teams. The encouraging news of the increased tonnage potential of the diamond-bearing pipe and of an associated kimberlite cluster augurs well for the continuing success of Sola’s Rondônia project during 2007.”