[amor de cosmos]

I wonder if this will go anywhere:
Alberta's Grizzly "encouraged" by diamond results
December 8, 2008

EDMONTON — Grizzly Diamonds (TSX-V: GZD) says it has recovered 534 diamonds, including 10 macrodiamonds, from two recently discovered kimberlites at its Smokey the Bear property in northern Alberta.

A total of 316 stones came from 518.55 kilogram drill core samples at BE-02 kimberlite, and 218 diamonds from 365.35 kilogram samples from BE-03 at Buffalo Head Hills, north of Lesser Slave Lake.

“We are highly encouraged by these initial diamond results,” CEO Brian Testo said.

“The total number of diamonds recovered from Grizzly’s BE-02 and BE-03 kimberlites rank them amongst the top 10 initial microdiamond results for the Buffalo Head Hills kimberlite field.”

A macrodiamond has at least one dimension greater than 0.5 millimetre in length.
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/edmonton/Alberta+Grizzly+encouraged+diamond+results/1047935/story.html

[SHOFEAR]

Can't wait for CBC to refer to Alberta diamonds as Tar-Diamonds.

[itom 987]

Sparkling black gold!

[KrisYYC]

Can't wait for CBC to refer to Alberta diamonds as Tar-Diamonds.

Or Blood-Diamonds because Alberta is responsible for everything evil in the world.

[ScottFromCalgary]

At first I thought it said "Grizzly enraged by diamonds". That would be more logical.

[surgical wit da puck]

O good I was worried they'd missed a spot of land that could be dug up

j/k

This is good news for Alberta and Canada. In these times of economic uncertainty we'll take any form of revenue we can get.

[vid]

Northern Ontario has diamonds up on the north coast. There is a DeBeers mine near Attiwapiskat.

[JBinCalgary]

i wish debeers was dabears

[KrisYYC]

Da Bearsss!!!

[RTA]

Or Blood-Diamonds because Alberta is responsible for everything evil in the world.

Climate-change diamonds?

[DizzyEdge]

OMG diamonds are made of carbon! Won't someone think of the children??

[Aylmer]

OMG diamonds are made of carbon! Won't someone think of the children??

Yes! Let's sell the diamonds to make money to help reduce the effects of the oil sands!

Well, that is actualy a good idea...

kinda...

:)

[Bigtime]

Yes! Let's sell the diamonds to make money to help reduce the effects of the oil sands!

Well, that is actualy a good idea...

kinda...

:)

Wait we want to reduce the effects of getting fatter provincial and federal wallets? ;)

[graupner]

Good news, but kimberlite with micro-diamonds are discovered yearly in Canada. Northern Ontario and Northern Quebec have announced dozens of such discoveries in the past 5 years.

The problem is to get a profitable mine from the kimberlite towers.


Canadian diamonds are relatively cheap and common on the international markets. They are mostly small, have relatively high impurities and yellowish taint.

They are on the low-end of the market, mostly used for serial generic jewelry bought at Sears and such.

The most priced jems are Birman saphir and rubys, altough no significant gems have been found there in recent years.

African 'blood diamonds' are also highly priced for their size, purity and special colors.

Gem stocks on the TSX-V are highly speculative. most companies end up bankrupt.

[surgical wit da puck]

Good news, but kimberlite with micro-diamonds are discovered yearly in Canada. Northern Ontario and Northern Quebec have announced dozens of such discoveries in the past 5 years.

The problem is to get a profitable mine from the kimberlite towers.


Canadian diamonds are relatively cheap and common on the international markets. They are mostly small, have relatively high impurities and yellowish taint.

They are on the low-end of the market, mostly used for serial generic jewelry bought at Sears and such.

The most priced jems are Birman saphir and rubys, altough no significant gems have been found there in recent years.

African 'blood diamonds' are also highly priced for their size, purity and special colors.

Gem stocks on the TSX-V are highly speculative. most companies end up bankrupt.

Thats pretty interesting

I wasn't aware Canadian diamonds were on the low end of the scale

That kinda sucks for us

[1ajs]

they also are used on cutting tools...

[graupner]

Canada: Quantity, not Quality !!!

[Shodan]

Alberta: Your One-Stop Shop for All your Carbon Needs!!! :tup:

[DHLawrence]

Alberta: Turning fossil fuels into diamonds without Superman's help since 2008!