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GDAWG77 on Feb 29, 2008 3:34pm
IIE NEWS! 758 diamond indicators!
Iciena's Batovi shows 758 diamond indicators
2008-02-29 15:22 ET - News Release
Mr. Harry Lappa reports
ABUNDANT DIAMOND INDICATORS FOUND ON BATOVI DIAMOND PROJECT
Iciena Ventures Inc.'s diamond indicator results are complete for heavy mineral samples. Sample results are now available for the Batovi diamond project, a part of which the company has just secured an option to acquire an 80-per-cent interest in claims covering approximately 215,000 hectares.
Two hundred sixty-two heavy mineral samples were collected from streams draining the licence area. Processing of 240 of these samples is now complete, and 103 contained indicator minerals with compositions equivalent to those found in economic kimberlite pipes. Four of the samples were exceptionally anomalous: they contained between 40 and 64 diamond indicators. Results for the remaining 22 samples are awaited.
A total of 758 diamond indicators were recovered. Recovered diamond indicators included eclogitic garnets, peridotitic (G10) garnets, chrome diopsides and chromites. The source of the diamond indicators appears to be dominantly eclogitic in nature with 528 group I eclogitic garnets recovered. This eclogitic character is similar to that seen at DeBeers's Victor mine in Northern Ontario, which will be in production in the near future