RE: Propertymad ...Bishop got the percentage wrong heavy.... we are looking at about 1/3 of the leadbetter diamonds being type II
folks, typically type II would account for 2-5% of all diamonds globally...... type IIa as heavy pointed out account for 1-2%.... the difference between 'a' and 'b' classsifications relates to conductivity and manifests via different colour characteristics
the point of all of this ....colour, nitrogen, crystal structure.... is that Canadian average value is the lower limit for us IMO.... our average carat value will start with a 2 or a 3 infront of it...... thats why JR wont risk an unrepresentative valuation by WWW or anyone else for that matter..... he wants 5000 carats so we can blend all the colours, sizes, types and lithological units and emerge with a bankable average carat value