Kennady Diamonds Reports 4.65 carats per tonne Sample Grade at Faraday 1

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TORONTO, Feb. 18, 2016 /CNW/ - Kennady Diamonds Inc. ("Kennady Diamonds", the "Company") (TSX-V: KDI) is pleased to announce the 2015 diamond recovery results from the Faraday 1 kimberlite at the Company's 100 percent-controlled Kennady North project. During the winter of 2015 a sample of 0.518 tonnes of kimberlite was recovered by core drilling at Faraday 1 and processed by caustic fusion at the Geoanalytical Laboratories Diamond Services of the Saskatchewan Research Council ("SRC") returning a total 'commercial' sample grade of 4.65 carats per tonne.

Kennady Diamonds President and CEO Patrick Evans noted: "Good progress was made in 2015 delineating and sampling the Faraday 1 kimberlite. We are very pleased with the excellent results. Delineation drilling to date has defined the strike of the Faraday 1 kimberlite over approx. 160 meters and the pipe remains open on strike to the northwest where core drilling is currently underway."

Table 1 below summarizes the 2015 caustic fusion diamond recovery results from the Faraday 1 kimberlite.

Table 1 – 2015 Faraday 1 Diamond Recovery Results

*Sample grade of diamonds greater than 0.85mm: 4.65 carats per tonne

The three largest diamonds recovered from the Faraday 1 sample are described as:

• 1.43 carat off-white, transparent octahedron with no inclusions;
• 0.13 carat off-white, transparent tetra hexahedron with minor inclusions; and
• 0.12 carat off-white, transparent tetra hexahedron with minor inclusions.

Mr. Evans added: "The ice-based drilling currently underway at Faraday 1 is designed to continue defining the pipe-like body on strike to the northwest to the point where land-based drilling in the spring/summer will be possible. Following completion of the current series of holes being drilled 40 meters beyond the last major intersects, the core rig will be moved to the southwest of the Faraday 1 kimberlite to test two areas where unexplained volcanoclastic kimberlite was intersected in 2015."

About Kennady Diamonds
Kennady Diamonds Inc. controls 100 percent of the Kennady North diamond project located in Canada's Northwest Territories immediately adjacent to the Gahcho Kué diamond mine currently under development by De Beers and Mountain Province Diamonds (T:MPV, NASDAQ:MDM).

Kennady Diamonds aims to identify a resource along the Kelvin – Faraday kimberlite corridor of between a 13 and 16 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.

Qualified Persons
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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SOURCE Kennady Diamonds Inc.