Kennady Diamonds Announces Kelvin Bulk Sample Diamond Recovery Results
26 August 2015
- Sample grade 2.02 carats per tonne
- Largest diamonds recovered: 4.42 carats, 3.95 carats, 2.79 carats
Toronto, Ontario, August 26, 2015 – Kennady Diamonds Inc. (“Kennady Diamonds”, the “Company”) (TSX-V: KDI) is pleased to announce the diamond recovery results from the Kelvin 2015 bulk sample. The 443 tonne bulk sample was recovered by large diameter reverse circulation drilling at the southeast lobe of the Kelvin kimberlite and was processed by dense media separation at the Geoanalytical Laboratories Diamond Services of the Saskatchewan Research Council (“SRC”), which is accredited to the ISO/IEC 17025 standard by the Standards Council of Canada as a testing laboratory for diamond analysis.
Kennady Diamonds CEO Patrick Evans commented: “We are very pleased with the excellent results of the Kelvin bulk sample, which are the culmination of three years of drilling and sampling at Kelvin. The results confirm that the Kelvin kimberlite has the potential to host a high-grade diamond resource.”
Table 1 below summarizes the diamond recovery results from the 2015 Kelvin bulk sample.
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