Kennady Diamonds Intersects Kimberlite at Faraday
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TORONTO, March 18, 2015 /CNW/ - Kennady Diamonds Inc. ("Kennady Diamonds", the "Company") (TSX-V: KDI) is pleased to announce that kimberlite has been intersected over approx. 32 meters in the first of fourteen drill holes planned for the Faraday Spring delineation drill program.
Kennady Diamonds CEO Patrick Evans commented: "We are very pleased with this first kimberlite intersect at Faraday 2 where drilling in the winter of 2014 resulted in the discovery of a shallow kimberlite "blow" or small pipe-like body. Recently completed ground geophysics at Faraday has identified anomalies comparable in size to the main Kelvin kimberlite. This leads us to believe that the potential exists for substantial tonnage at the high grade Faraday kimberlite where we are planning to establish continuity over the approx. 1 kilometer strike.
Table 1 below provides details of drill hole KDI-15-002a.
Table 1
Faraday 2015 Spring Drill Program
Drill Hole | Target | Azimuth | Inclination | Kimberlite Intercepts (m) Approximate | End of Hole (m) | ||
From | To | Intercept | |||||
KDI-15-002a | Faraday 2 | 055 | -45 | 32.55 | 68.80 | 32.25* | 109 |
*Not true widths |
Up to the end of 2014 Kennady Diamonds had recovered approx. 1 tonne of kimberlite from Faraday by drilling. Processing of the Faraday core samples by caustic fusion at the Geoanalytical Laboratories Diamond Services of the Saskatchewan Research Council yielded 4.76 carats greater than 0.85mm with a resultant "commercial" sample grade of 4.54 carats per tonne.
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About Kennady Diamonds
Kennady Diamonds Inc. controls 100 percent of the Kennady North project which comprises thirteen leases and claims located immediately to the north and west of the four leases controlled by the Gahcho Kué Joint Venture between De Beers Canada (51%) and Mountain Province (49%) located in Canada's Northwest Territories.
Kennady Diamonds aims to identify a resource along the Kelvin – Faraday kimberlite corridor of between a 10 and 13 million tonnes at a grade of between 2 and 2.5 carats per tonne and also to identify new kimberlites outside of the corridor. The Kelvin – Faraday corridor is a target for further exploration. The tonnage estimate is based on the drilling completed to date. The potential quantity is conceptual in nature as there has been insufficient drilling to define a mineral resource and it is uncertain if further exploration will result in the target being delineated as a mineral resource.
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Qualified Person
This news release has been prepared under the supervision of Carl G. Verley, P.Geo., who serves as the qualified person under National Instrument 43-101.
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Contact
please contact: Kennady Diamonds Inc., Patrick Evans, President and CEO, (416) 640-1111, investor@kennadydiamonds.com