Shore Gold recovers 266cts at Orion

Shore Gold Inc. announce the second set of diamond results from underground bulk sampling of the Orion South Kimberlite, within the Fort a La Corne Joint Venture (FALC-JV) where Shore is the operator with a 60 percent interest and Newmont Mining Corporation of Canada Limited (Newmont) has 40 percent.

The diamond recoveries total 266.02 carats from 1,540.07 dry tonnes of kimberlite processed. Included in this release are results for 4 kimberlite batches. A total of 1,722 commercial sized diamonds (greater than 1.18 millimetre square mesh screen), collectively weighing 265.83 carats, has been recovered from these 4 batches. Twenty diamonds greater than one carat have been recovered and the four largest stones are: 15.88, 8.29, 4.46 and 2.76 carats, respectively. In addition, ten diamonds totaling 0.19 carats were recovered down to 0.85 millimetre square mesh. The colour of 50 percent of the diamonds has been classified as white, with a further 10 percent classified as off-white.

The well constrained geological model on Orion South enabled the sinking of the shaft in a central location to ensure ease of future underground access to the north and south of the shaft to sample the Early Joli Fou 1 and 2 (EJF1 and EJF2) and Pense Kimberlite lithologies. The pilot PQ (75 millimetres) core hole (141-07-081C) that preceded the shaft was drilled to a depth of 241 metres below surface and the geologic sequence logged from this hole is: 0-102 metres glacial overburden, 102-105 metres Late Joli Fou Kimberlite, 105-147 metres Early Joli Fou Kimberlite and 147-241 metres Pense Kimberlite.

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