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Situated 140 km north of Yellowknife . . . .

. . . . the Star property has been actively explored since 1995. Till samples collected on the property have yielded high numbers of indicator minerals, including a significant population of “G10” garnets. Two samples collected in 2000 near the down-ice end of a linear depression each contained more than 10,000 indicator minerals, some with fresh abrasion characteristics. Measuring approximately 60 metres in width and 350 metres in length, the depression runs parallel to the glacial ice transport direction in the area (east-northeast) and terminates in a lake at its up-ice end.

Prospecting and hand trenching in the vicinity of the sampling site has uncovered a subsurface layer of till containing abundant kimberlite boulders, the largest of which is approximately 50 cm in diameter. The kimberlite can be described as macrocrystic, olivine-rich, hematitic hypabyssal kimberlite. Previous drilling suggests that till depth is approximately ten metres.

The nature and exact location of the source of the kimberlite float are not yet known. A detailed grid of till sampling and a limited ground geophysical survey have been completed in an effort to locate the source. Approximately 100 kg of the kimberlite boulders will be analyzed for microdiamonds by caustic dissolution at Ashton’s North Vancouver laboratory and results are expected in mid-August.

Source: Ashton