Kahuna Resource of 3189K carats of diamonds
Dunnedin Ventures announced drilling has recommenced at its 100% owned Kahuna diamond project, Nunavut. Drill crews and equipment have been mobilized and drilling of high–priority kimberlite targets is underway. The Company will be drilling approximately 30 targets in June and July 2018.
Chris Taylor, Dunnedin’s CEO said, “The northern project area hosts a dense concentration of kimberlite occurrences and has the most abundant high-quality diamond indicator mineral (DIM) chemistry recovered from our till sampling programs to date.
Over 30 historic drill-confirmed kimberlites are known in this area, including approximately 12 kimberlite pipes and a number of kimberlite dikes, the largest of which is the highly diamondiferous Kahuna dike. We have excellent DIM results in the northern project area that correlate to kimberlite pipe-style geophysical targets and will drill as many as possible between now and mid-July.”
In addition to a large number of pipe targets the northern project area hosts the Kahuna kimberlite dike which contains a significant diamond resource that remains open to expansion along strike and at depth.
It has been drilled to shallow depths of generally less than 80 metres across approximately 4 kilometres of strike, and contains an Inferred Resource of 3,189,000 carats of diamonds (+0.85 mm) from 3,066,000 tonnes of rock, with a bulk sample grade of 1.04 carats per tonne.
