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Could be Focus4, must be close to permit now , also ISA allowance finishing and restarting soon , folk will want these in their ISA when news comes , why wait for a scramble (100% will be )when you can by now @2.28, no brainer , is the sleeping giant about to wake up , it’s been a long time coming , Bol all
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All this is required before the obvious questions around Riihivaara, Seitapera, Liperi and Salla.
Over 9 months on from this (24th April 23)
"The exploration programme in Kuhmo will be carried out in tandem with initial work on the Company’s mining concession area at Lahtojoki, which will include environmental studies and an updated technical and financial assessment to be followed by further drilling and bulk sampling, particularly in relation to the percentage of pink diamonds present in the deposit"
We have had initial results from Kuhmo, but what about the rest?
To say we're due a few updates is probably an understatement.
Kuhmo - The hunt for the green diamond, 6 weeks on.
Following the 19th December update and AGM feedback stating that we're within a couple of KMs from the source, what is next on the programme? The RNS states "Further results will be issued as the programme progresses" . That's great, but are they continuing to sample Kuhmo 1 or are they waiting for an exploration permit for Kuhmo 2 as they believe this contains the source? Have any drill targets been identified to date?
NI - Nearly 4 months on from the sampling update 12th October
"The Company is planning a follow up programme focused on the highly anomalous river catchment area, together with some additional microprobe analysis, with a view to identifying one or more drilling targets. Further results will be issued by the Company as the exploration programme proceeds."
Along with AGM feedback stating that the sampling results we off the scale, according to ODM. Where are we with the follow up work programme including further sampling and proposed drill target/s?
Lahtojoki 2 - Testing
Lahtojoki 1 - Legal force, following resolution to a boundary dispute. 1 year on...
What's the hold up? It would be great to know what we are waiting for, not just, we're expecting something any day now...
Probably better off going over there ourselves with a few Black and Decker drills we could complete more drilling in a day than CON roy has done in 20 years ! Truly unbelievable and pathetic.
The diamond industry hit bumps in the road with introduction of lab grown diamonds 23 global slow down,
Add Synthetic Diamonds (I might add!!)
The emerging new diamond market will be a clear paths as 24 continues imho??
In watch term’s comparison Rolex compared to Timex
Prof said few years ago we are in pole position
Well let’s hope Kevin’s got the funds to locate A5 pipe or pipes in our confined area of 2sq klm
We have already proven its there with stepping out sampling
Swampy needs drilling in winter months 2024
Now in other words 💎
Cook said the world economy is “cyclical,” and should improve this year. De Beers expects engagements to rise in both the United States and China, but believes lab-grown prices will continue to fall.
“They have fallen by more than 90% over the last two years,” Cook said. “And customers clearly see now that natural diamonds and lab-grown diamonds are two entirely different things.”
He also hailed his company’s recent deal in Angola. “There’s only really been one diamond discovery in the entire of the 21st century,” Cook said. “We are past peak supplies of natural diamonds, and we believe Angola is the best place in the world to go exploring for diamonds.”
As far as the G7’s plans regarding Russian diamonds, De Beers wants to make sure that any sanctions don’t have “unintended negative consequences for ethical African producers,” said Cook.
Now imagine Finland compared to Angola
Finland ✔️ the ethical box add fancy’s and hallmark?
All KDR need is Ore bodies of kuhmo add already proven Lahtojoki
💯 ours
In KDRs Statement Of Compliance With The QCA Corporate Governance Code, No. 2 says the company will : Seek to understand and meet shareholder needs and expectations.
The company would do well to read that again and remind themselves of it.
-The Company gives high priority to shareholders needs and expectations by means of a comprehensive investor relations programme........really?
-The Chairman and Managing Director are active in meeting with private investors from time to time; and engages in regular dialogue with the Company’s broker with view to gauging shareholder sentiment and how successful the Company has been in communicating with shareholders.......Really? How is that going?
-We seek at all times to provide open and realistic communications with shareholders ......Really?
This is not a private company. Its a public company and the shareholders are stakeholders in this public company.
I sincerely hope the running of two public companies at the same time (CGNR and KDR) is not proving too much or impacting on the amount of time being allocated to KDR, but i fear it must be, given the snail pace of progress.
Something needs to happen urgently for shareholders here and Karelian Diamonds need to up their game. To shareholders it appears as though directors are too comfortable with the current shareholder sentiment. Do they have blinkers on?
You can be sure they will read this. I just hope it registers with them.
Protect what shareholder value? My shares are 90% down on what I invested...
7 trades 1 off book a bit exaggeration
All trades off book this company would be better off delisting for a couple of years to protect shareholder value and resist when they've actually got something of material interest to say even if it's they've got their buckets and spades out and found a few blue diamonds would be better than this atrocious never ending saga.
The biggest buy in ages and cheaper then the two buys before
Only Kdr !!
The semantic dispute about what to call diamonds seems to be nearing its end. The industry is hoping a solution has been found, after the French government’s recent ruling on the matter. In France at least, the terms ‘laboratory diamond’ and ‘cultivated diamond’ (diamant de culture) are no longer acceptable, and the only designation that the industry will be able to use for a man-made/lab-grown diamond will be ‘synthetic’ diamond
Karelian Diamond Resources plc (AIM: KDR) is pleased to announce that the Company has been informed by the National Land Survey of Finland that there were no appeals against the grant of rights of way for the Lahtojoki diamond deposit and the adjacent exploration acreage, and as such the grant has now gained legal force
oh and we don't have right of way or access anymore to the road that leads to lahtojoki it expired over a month ago
wrong again bonnie half **** research as per normal
🤦♀️
the land survey of finland has recently granted the company rights of way for the lahtojoki diamond deposit and adjacent exploration area (announced 17 august 2020).
Meanwhile we don't even have a legal permit expected at the end of the year according to CON roy end of which year did he mean 3023 ?
Oh and we don't have right of way or access anymore to the road that leads to Lahtojoki it expired over a month ago .There might aswell be billions of pounds worth of pink green blue diamonds up there but KDR won't be mining them won't even be able to get a rusty old tractor up there!!
Evidence of pervasive plastic deformation Hmmmm
Extreme hardness is one of the most well-known physical properties of diamond. It is difficult to imagine this same material bending or squishing like putty, but many natural diamonds have evidence of plastic deformation (figure 1). This process is even responsible for creating the value behind the most expensive diamonds sold at auction to date, by both per-carat price and total price. Specifically, the 11.15 ct Williamson Pink Star that sold for $57.7 million and the 59.6 ct Pink Star that sold for $71.2 million owe their Fancy Vivid pink colors to plastic deformation.
Plastic deformation does not always lead to pink color,
Samples were selected from four kimberlites: the 2-ha Lahtojoki (Pipe no. 7 with 26 cpht of +0.8 mm diamonds), the 2-ha Kylmälahti (no. 17, marginally diamondiferous), the 700×30 m Kärenpää (no. 5, diamond grade unknown) and the 300×50 m Niilonsuo (no. 2, microdiamond-rich). Xenocryst grains (0.25–2.0 mm) were liberated by lightly crushing the kimberlite material—except for the hard magmatic Niilonsuo kimberlite which was fragmented electrodynamically at Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe—followed by
Prof mentioned mistakes were made from previous studies and testing techniques ?
Suggested that the last owners could well have buried
The real valuable ground in Lahtojoki from the spoils of draining the lake
And even the spoils itself were containing diamonds
Local people were collecting small diamonds for jewellery from there?
Technically things have changed and modern techniques could unlock the key to Lahtojoki
Imagine recovery of fancy gems…
Diamond prices may well have slipped back but fancy diamonds are still being outstripped by demand and every auction is over subscribed ….
diamondiferous group a eclogites constitute a minor portion of the mantle-derived xenoliths in the eastern finland kimberlites. they have been derived from the depth interval 150–230 km where they are inferred to occur as thin layers or small pods within co****-grained garnet peridotites. the chemical and isotopic composition of minerals suggest that they represent (proterozoic?) mantle-derived melts or cumulates rather than subducted oceanic lithosphere. during magma ascent and emplacement of the kimberlites, the eclogite xenoliths were mechanically and chemically rounded judging from the types of surface markings. in addition, those octahedral crystal faces of diamonds that were partially exposed from the rounded eclogite xenolith became covered by trigons and overlain by microlamination due to their reaction with the kimberlite magma. the diamonds bear evidence of pervasive plastic deformation which is not, however, evident in the eclogite host. this suggests that annealing at ambient lithospheric temperatures has effectively recrystallised the silicates while the diamond has retained its lattice imperfections and thus still has the potential to yield information about ancient mantle deformation. one of our samples is estimated to contain approximately 90,000 ct/ton diamond implying that some diamonds occur within very high-grade pods or thin seams in the lithospheric mantle. to our knowledge, this is one of the most diamondiferous samples described.
Was the boulder of 90000 cpt =1% diamond from pipe 7 located??
Not the south side as first thought??
European Diamond. Aka Roy Spencer recorded pinks blues and yellow??
permit legal status soon for KDR …
Some bimineralic eclogitic mantle xenoliths have been recovered from Pipe no. 7 (Lahtojoki) in the Eastern Finland Kimberlite Province. They occur in subordinate amounts relative to garnet and garnet–spinel peridotite xenoliths, making up no more than approximately 1% of the mantle-derived xenolith suite. The petrology of the peridotite xenoliths has earlier been extensively described elsewhere Peltonen et al., 1999, Peltonen, 1999, Woodland and Peltonen, 1999, Kukkonen and Peltonen, 1999. Although small in number, these eclogitic xenoliths are of special interest because they can be highly diamondiferous and yield information on the mode of occurrence and formation of diamond in the mantle.
Eclogitic mantle xenoliths occur in most kimberlite provinces worldwide and various origins have been postulated for them. Two contrasting petrogeneses are in favour: either mantle eclogites represent (1) high-pressure magmatic cumulates which occur as magma chambers or dykes within the upper mantle (e.g. O'Hara and Yoder, 1967, Smyth et al., 1989) or (2) recycled and metamorphosed Archaean oceanic crust Helmstaedt and Doig, 1975, Jacob et al., 1994, Barth et al., 2001. Both types may occur in the same kimberlite (e.g. Taylor and Neal, 1989) and it seems evident that mantle eclogites may have multiple origins. Their petrology and origin being properly characterised, eclogite xenoliths may thus provide valuable information about asthenosphere–lithosphere interaction and Archaean or Proterozoic tectonics.
In this contribution, we describe in detail two diamondiferous eclogite xenoliths, L-80 and L-78, with special emphasis on the surface textures and morphology of the diamonds. These xenoliths were found by the first author from non-processed bulk mine samples following the test scale mining of Pipe no. 7. In addition, two small eclogite xenoliths (diameters ∼10 mm) were recovered from the crushed bulk kimberlite sample. These small samples, E1 and E2, do not contain visible diamonds but their mineral compositions are provided below for comparison. The origin of the studied samples is tentatively discussed in terms of mineral compositions, but the proper characterisation of their origins would require comprehensive isotopic analyses of oxygen in silicate minerals and carbon and nitrogen in diamonds.
Yes whatever they learned from Northern Ireland has informed them in their decision to lock down Jappila 1 ground in Finland. Must have been similar results to Northern Ireland but only now realising what they had before. We probably wont hear anything more on Jappila until appeal period ends. Hopefully the company dont hide it like Liperi and Salla.
Another copper asset in Finland now ?
Revisit Kev said at AGM
Very clever building two prong minerals ?
Timberrrrrrr !