Pangolin Finds First Diamond at Jwaneng!
According to the Pangolin Diamonds they have recovered a white diamond from the Company’s wholly-owned Jwaneng South Kimberlite Project (Jwaneng South), in an area 100 km south of the Jwaneng diamond mine in the Southern District Botswana.
The diamond was recovered from an unscreened 60 litre sample collected within a 10 square metre area of a GPS controlled sample site. This material was dry screened in the field to recover the +0.425 – 4.0 millimetre size fraction. The sample was then transported to Francistown, Botswana and processed through Pangolin’s 1-tph DMS plant.
The white diamond measuring approximately 1 mm in its long axis is a fragment of the original diamond. The presence of a chrome spinel inclusion on the broken surface of the diamond is interpreted to be an indication that the diamond is close to source and transport distance is minimal.
