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MINING have lower diamond grades ( 10-20 cpht ), they are very large kimberlites and much large than those in the Northwest Territories . People also fail to understand the importance of the coarse size frequency distributions of their diamond populations . There is a significant opportunity for the recovery of plus
100 carat stones from the future production of these mines . During evaluation , 49 and 45 carat stones were recovered from Star and Orion South , respectively ,” said Read .
So far , the company ’ s underground bulk sampling has recovered 10,966 carats of plus 1.0 millimetre commercial goods from
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