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News from Green Lake

By Aaron Chavel

Progress Staff

Meadow Lake Progress — Allan Moen, the vice-president of Pan Pacific Gem Industries Co. and general manager of the project, feels that the Green Lake area of Saskatchewan has great potential for discovering diamonds but “nobody has spent the time or money to look.”

The Edmonton-based group is now in a consultation phase obtaining permission to drill for samples in a number of areas around Green Lake, Silver Lake and Lowther Lake.

Brad Weiss, Green Lake’s administrator said that the village is “cautiously optimistic about the potential of diamonds located in our area” but that “we don’t want to get people’s hopes up without some concrete clues.”

At a public meeting held March 13 at Green Lake village office, Mark Hutchison, a U.S.-based geologist and president of Trigon GeoServices, told attendees the geological conditions around the lake may be right for finding diamonds but that a number of core samples are needed to know for sure.

“We’ve collected all the clues that we can and now we need to do some drilling.” said Hutchison who is acting as consultant for a private company.

Hutchison said that each drilling site would have a footprint of about eight to 10 square meters and would “try if possible to use existing roads” and that the “impact of diamond exploration is really very minimal compared to other minerals.”

Hutchison said that diamond exploration was a purely mechanical process and used only water and electricity.

Howard Sinclair, a Green Lake resident, said of the meeting. “He (Hutchison) explained himself well at least he’s going to ask people first about what he is doing.”

Sinclair was also pleased to hear that plans to drill through the ice of the lake had been abandoned.

“He’s not going to be destroying the fish,” he said. Originally there were plans to drill through the lake ice in winter but now drilling will take place on land and go under the lake.

Green Lake is one of the deepest lakes in the province and a popular fishing and hunting destination.