Stornoway Discovers Adamantin Project Kimberlite

(IDEX Online News) – Stornoway Diamond Corporation has announced the discovery of a kimberlite at its 100-percent owned Adamantin Project in Quebec, Canada.

The company said that to date, 11 distinct kimberlite bodies have been identified, with intersections of up to 13.7 meters of undiluted kimberlite. The geological findings show that this latest kimberlite is located close to, but is distinct from, the Renard kimberlite cluster.

Drilling at the site commenced in March, following till sampling at Adamantin during 2015, which had confirmed the presence of indicator mineral anomalies. Stornoway said that kimberlite had been intersected in 18 of 78 drill holes testing 72 geophysical targets. The intersections are thought to represent at least 11 discrete kimberlite bodies.

The company said to its knowledge this was the first new kimberlite field to be discovered in Quebec for more than 10 years. It also suggested that if melting ice had not curtailed its drilling targets that more kimberlites may also be uncovered, although they have collected enough sample material to arrive at a preliminary sense of diamond content.

“We are encouraged by the early drilling at Adamantin, which has discovered a spatially extensive field of kimberlite emplacement in an area that we knew to have promising indicator mineral chemistry and where we had already found a diamond in till,” said Stornoway president and CEO Matt Manson.