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Coloured diamonds, including a blue coloured stone continue to predominate in final three drill holes from Mori joint venture property in Ontario
TSX Venture Exchange Symbol: MTX KELOWNA, BC, Sept. 18 /CNW/ - Metalex Ventures Limited (MTX: TSX...
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\nTSX Venture Exchange\n\n\nSymbol: MTX\n\n\nKELOWNA, BC, Sept. 18 /CNW/ - Metalex Ventures Limited (MTX: TSX Venture\nExchange) in conjunction with its joint venture partners Dianor Resources Inc.\n(DOR: TSX Venture Exchange) and Mori Diamonds Inc. are pleased to inform our\nshareholders that we have received complete results for the remaining 3 holes\nof the 16 NQ drill holes drilled on the Mori joint venture properties, located\n3 kilometres north east and north west of the Leadbetter Diamond Property in\nthe Wawa area of Ontario. Theses are the final results of the 2007 drilling\ncampaign conducted on the Mori East and Mori West blocks which returned a\npreponderance of coloured diamonds (press releases of January 14 and June 25,\n2008). The NQ drill cores were processed by autogenous (attrition) milling at\nthe CF Minerals Research Limited laboratory in Kelowna, British Columbia to\nrecover indicator minerals followed by caustic fusion to recover diamonds.\n\n\nThe colour characteristics of the diamonds recovered from the 3 drill\nholes, MN 07-11, MN 07-12 and MN 07-13, are very similar to those recovered\nfrom the first 10 holes, with coloured diamonds making up 56% of the stones,\nwhile white and colourless diamonds represented 44% of stone population. Of\nthe coloured diamonds 26.5% were brown; 11.6% were grey; 11.0% were yellow\n(double that of the previous holes); 5.8% were green. Other colours consisted\nof one purple and one blue diamond. The blue diamond was described as an\nincluded, high intensity blue (scale of 4 out of 4), with dimensions of 296 x\n132 x 129 microns (1000 microns (equal sign) 1 millimetre). The colour characteristics of\nall the diamonds recovered from the 13 holes drilled on the Mori East block\nconsist of 47.5% white stones and 52.5% coloured diamonds with the following\norder of abundance brown (26.75%), grey (13.88%), yellow (5.72%), green\n(5.09%) and other colours orange, purple, amber, black, pink, blue (1.09%).\nIndicator minerals recovered from the diamondiferous drill cores by autogenous\n(attrition) milling included, G-9 and G-10 garnets, group I eclogitic garnets,\npicroilmenites, chromites, chrome diopsides and olivines.\n\n\nHoles MN 07-11, MN 07-12 and MN 07-13 were drilled 2 kilometres to the\nwest of the other 10 holes in the Mori East Block. The main host rocks are\nArche...