Great post Fickster. Looks like you are using your head. I still think there is more to the results than what we think. Time will tell. Not much time left until we get the news.
Ukraine news should confirm the diamond count or maybe a few more diamonds. The official news on Ukraine will be welcome as well as a schedule for the next sampling over there.
Lets face it.....Walter is about to shed a bunch of light on this company.
Retail diamonds! Can't forget that. Also the other 3 drill sites in Canada. They are suppose to reveal those results in the next PR. This will put Shadera to the test as she said they were dusters. Wonder if she meant GOLD DUSTERS??
"The point of her post was since all of these important trace minerals are not mentioned than the results are not good."
My point was the results should have been attached to the news release.
"We do not know the composistion of the samples yet.
You're right the shareholders don't know the compositions of the samples because NSDM decided to keep them in the dark.
"The petrograph test will determine the minerological make-up of the samples. Not a guess from our resident gal in the field."
An assay tells you what the rock contains and a petrographic report tells you what the host rock is.
Here is an example from A2Gems fav REE company... It won't paste here correctly so click on the link to see how even a junior mining company can properly report results for the world to see and ask yourself why NSDM is keeping itself and everybody else in the dark.
News Release
Great Western Gold Corp.
April 17, 2001
Hoidas Lake Jak Zone Initial Assay Results
Gary Billingsley, President, is very pleased to report the initial assay results from this winter’s drill program on the JAK zone on the Company’s Hoidas Lake rare earth project in northern Saskatchewan.
Results to date confirm a significant zone of high-grade mineralization along with impressive values over wide intervals in the surrounding rock.
The drill program was conducted to test trenching on the JAK zone, completed in 1999, that indicated the presence of significant rare earth mineralization. Sixteen NQ-size drill holes were collared over a 475-metre strike length, recovering approximately 1,100 metres of core. One hole was abandoned.
The core was logged and split with the samples sent to the Saskatchewan Research Council in Saskatoon for assay. Samples were prepared using fusion and ICP with a lower detection limit of 0.002% (20 ppm). For calculation purposes all results below 0.002% were assigned a zero value. The initial sampling focus was on the fault structure, known to contain high rare earth values in skarn mineralization, but a significant portion of the footwall and hanging wall granitic gneisses and mylonite were also sampled.
The following chart summarizes weighted average results for each hole based on selected fault-related mineralization (skarn) in each hole as well as the weighted average grades over the entire sampled unit. Holes are arranged on-section from south to north. Assays are expressed as percent total rare earth oxides (TREO) and include Ce, Dy, Er, Eu, Gd, Hf, Ho, La, Lu, Nd, Pr, Sm, Tb, Th, Tm and Y.
Hole. No. Section m Angle Skarn Width m TREO % Sampled Width m TREO %
The table includes only one of multiple zones and does not include a hanging wall zone that produced the highest single assays of 14.11% over 0.5 m in HL01-08 and 9.70% over 0.5 m in HL01-09. All holes started and ended in mineralization with the deepest intersection in hole HL01-14 at approximately 65 metres depth.
Core angles suggest the skarn widths are approximately true widths, but the true widths of the footwall and hanging wall rocks cannot as yet be determined.
Concurrent with the drilling, ground geophysics was carried out to see if the mineralized zone could be detected. Results were excellent and anomalies were interpreted to conclude that there was a broad band of mineralization containing multiple parallel and sub-parallel zones representing the high-grade skarn. The drilling proved this out, but none of the holes completely crossed the anomaly.
The JAK zone has been traced for over 700 metres along strike using geophysics and is only one of at least 15 similar rare earth showings located over the six-mile strike length of the fault.
Further drilling, to be commenced after breakup, will include infill drilling on the JAK zone along with deeper holes with the goal of starting a reserve base for a third party reserve calculation. The remainder of the core will be split and metallurgical testing will commence to determine the most effective and economical method to extract the rare earth elements. An aggressive prospecting and geophysical program will be carried out over the other known showings on the property and environmental baseline work will be started.
Rare earths are a high-value commodity used in high-technology applications. In the last month, the Company has been contacted by both Japanese and US concerns seeking a secure North American supplier of rare earths. In preparation for rapid advancement of the project, the Company through its Technical Advisor, Neil Yingling, has initiated a business and economic development program with business, industry and government in North America. The Company is determined to take early, definitive action to prepare it's market. The U.S. office has activated a program to ensure all assay data and property information is communicated to processors, rare earth buyers and manufacturers requiring rare earth elements in their products, once that information is in the public domain. This includes those involved in rare earth use for hybrid automobiles, computers, rechargeable battery manufacturers, and applications in aerospace reflective coatings, EMI/RFI shielding, semiconductors, circuit boards, MRI's, fuel cells and more.
The Company is earning a 70% interest in the Hoidas Lake project from Daren Industries Ltd. (CDNX:DIL) of Vancouver.
Great Western Gold Corp. is a Saskatchewan-based corporation engaged in the acquisition, exploration and development of unique and strategic mineral properties including diamonds and rare earth elements. Shares of the Company trade on the Canadian Venture Exchange under the symbol GWG.
For further information, please call Gary Billingsley at 1 306 664 0028, or in the USA, Neil Yingling at 1 702 896 6724
"Show me in the below news release where they mention one laboratory result such as GWG gave to their shareholders?"
North Star announces the geochemical laboratory results on the Shire target of our phase one drill program
Tuesday February 3, 7:18 pm ET
BELLINGHAM, WA, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - North Star Diamonds, Inc. (NQB Pink Sheets: NSDM - News) North Star Diamonds is pleased to report the geochemical laboratory results on the Shire target on the Superior Craton in Manitoba. Dr. Joseph Montgomery, Ph.D., P.Eng studied the laboratory results and has summarized them as follows.
"I have studied the analysis of your 13 samples which were subjected to total digestion and ICP analysis. I noted that samples 41138, 41140, 41141, 41142, 41143 and 41141R are all anomalous in the elements chromium (Cr), the latter five samples are also anomalous in the element nickel (Ni), and all of the above samples plus 41137 are anomalous in magnesium oxide (MgO)."
"This combination of anomalous elements indicates a mafic to ultramafic source such as gabbro, peridotite, or kimberlite."
Petrographic studies are under way and are expected to be completed by February 9th, 2004. The results of the petrographic studies will be released after market on Tuesday February 10th, 2004.
North Star Diamonds, Inc. has accumulated more claims in the area near the Shire Target.
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