Rough carats/tonneI have done some rough figuring of the carats/tonne for the different pipes reported in the news releases. I modeled each diamond as a sphere with a diameter=sieve size and a diamond density of 3.5 grams/cu.cm.
These assumptions may be way off but they do give a way of rating the relative qualities of the different pipes.
Date | kg | Diamonds | c/t | D/t | Pipe |
27-May-08 | 412.15 | 2850 | 0.538 | 6,277 | Tuklu-1 |
6-Jun-08 | 551.95 | 2911 | 0.488 | 4,788 | Tuklu-2 |
8-Jan-08 | 81.75 | 550 | 0.409 | 6,108 | Tuklu-1 |
13-Mar-08 | 37.87 | 219 | 0.393 | 5,250 | Tuklu-3 |
| 107 | 607 | 0.389 | 5,150 | Tuklu-2 |
11-Mar-08 | 103.4 | 130 | 0.062 | 1,141 | Qavvik-5 |
11-Mar-08 | 107.7 | 118 | 0.051 | 995 | Qavvik-6 |
13-Mar-08 | 99.45 | 52 | 0.029 | 475 | Tuklu-6 |
12-Mar-08 | 135.35 | 65 | 0.017 | 436 | Char |
13-Mar-08 | 85.9 | 33 | 0.015 | 349 | Tuklu-7 |
13-Mar-08 | 111.65 | 21 | 0.012 | 171 | Tuklu-5 |
13-Mar-08 | 66.4 | 5 | 0.005 | 68 | Tuklu-4 |
13-Mar-08 | 97 | 11 | 0.002 | 103 | Tuklu-9 |
13-Mar-08 | 109.6 | 9 | 0.002 | 75 | Tuklu-8 |
Tuklu-1-3 are very promising, Qavvik 5-6 less so and the rest would probably only be feasible if a processing facility was close by.