George H. Read, Sr. VP Exploration & Development of Star Diamond Corporation (TSX: DIAM) has announced that Rio Tinto Exploration Canada (RTEC) has commenced an HQ core drilling program, consisting of 11 holes and some 3,300 metres of drilling on five kimberlites.
This program is the first phase of drilling of the Brownfields exploration program to investigate and prioritise the Fort à la Corne kimberlites outside of the Star and Orion South kimberlites. RTEC geologists are responsible for the supervision of the drilling program and Star Diamond and RTEC geologists will conduct subsequent detailed core logging.
The airborne data acquisition of the recently announced geophysical survey to collect gravity gradiometer, magnetics and LiDAR measurements over the Fort à la Corne diamond district has been successfully completed.