RE: MtxNew Quebec Diamond Discovery Contains Rare Purple Diamonds.
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Monday March 3, 11:30 am ET
KELOWNA, BC, March 3 /CNW/ - Metalex Ventures Limited (MTX : TSX Venture Exchange) in conjunction with its joint venture partners Dianor Resources Inc. (DOR: TSX- Venture Exchange) and Wemindji Exploration Inc. are pleased to announce a new diamond discovery in Quebec.
Diamonds have been recovered from surface rock samples on the Joint Venture's Ekomiak V property in the James Bay region of Quebec. Six hundred and forty nine (649) diamonds including nine rare purple diamonds were recovered from eighteen surface rock samples of conglomerates aged between 2.716 and 2.733 billion years. Natural fancy coloured diamonds are very rare and expensive. Purple is one of the rarest and most desirable colours. This makes the Quebec diamond discovery both unique and amongst the oldest diamond bearing occurrence in the world.
Results from twenty of the forty four outcrop samples from the Ekomiak V properties have been received and eighteen of the conglomerate samples contained diamonds. The Table below shows the composited results of eighteen samples from Ekomiak V. Three of the samples contained a total of nine purple micro diamonds with the largest sitting on a 212 micron screen with dimensions of 335 x 379 x 225 microns. Three of the purple diamond samples were collected on the Ekomiak V property. All the purple diamond samples are associated with samples having high diamond counts (39 to 224 diamonds per sample).