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J U N E / J U L Y 2 0 1 6 www.resourceworld.com 37 PANTHER CARRIERS Suited for your industry. Innovative chassis design provides easy implement installation Improved ROPS certification allows optimal payload State-of-the-art cab design provides comfort and visibility CLEAN MOTION: the first Stage IV/Tier 4 Final carrier line-up in the industry Under carriage unit also available The PANTHER crawler carrier from PRINOTH treads softly while carrying big payloads. Engineered for increased efficiency, the PANTHER provides fast, uninterrupted travel, optimal track performance, operator safety and reduced maintenance. All this and the ability to customize your vehicle according to your job's needs. PRINOTH Ltd - North America www.prinoth.com Tel. +1 450 776 3683 Meet the PRINOTH team and learn more about the PANTHER carrier at MINExpo, Las Vegas, USA from September 26 to 28, 2016/Stand #27301, South Hall. norTh arroW active on several diamond projects by Ellsworth Dickson NORTh ARROW MINERALS INC. [NAR-TSXV; NHAWF-OTC] recently completed its winter-spring drilling program on its 85%-owned Pikoo diamond project located 140 km east of La Ronge, Saskatchewan. Stornoway Diamond Corp. [SWY-TSX; SWYDF- OTC] has a 15% interest. A total of 2,124 metres of drilling was completed with kimberlite, the host rock of dia- monds, encountered in 14 of 19 holes in the North Pikoo, South Pikoo and East Pikoo areas. The recent drilling discovered two to four new kimberlite bodies, the most signifi- cant in size being PK 346 located in North Pikoo, approximately 25 metres north of 2015's PK 314. Processing of microdiamond samples from kimberlite discoveries made during drilling in March 2016 is well under way and results will be released when received. At North Arrow's 100%-owned Mel diamond project located 140 km south of Hall Beach, Nunavut, less than 10 km from tide water on the Melville Peninsula, a total of 228 till samples were collected in August 2015 that was part of the program to bet- ter define two unsourced kimberlite indicator mineral (KIM) trains. Diamond explorers hope to trace the source of KIM trains which contain minerals associated with diamond deposits. Trains are formed when glaciers scour off the top of kimberlite pipes at surface and spread them across the land. Visual picking results from 175 of the 227 till samples included numerous highly anomalous samples. North Arrow views these results as highly encouraging as the 2015 program was successful in drawing closer to multiple, potential kimberlite bedrock sources. Results from the remaining samples are expected over the next few weeks and will be used to identify targets for further exploration that would include more till sam- pling, prospecting, ground geophysics and drilling. This property is almost drill-ready. At the 80%-optioned (from Stornoway) Qilalugaq diamond project located on Rae Isthmus near the Hamlet of Repulse Bay, Nunavut, North Arrow is conducting evalua- tion studies on diamonds recovered in the 2015 exploration program in order to make further plans for the project. Ken Armstrong, PGeo, President and CEO, told Resource World that he is encouraged by the presence of fancy yellow diamonds in the Q1-4 kimberlite. A total of 11,083 diamonds greater than +1 DTC (~1 mm) weighing 384.28 carats were recovered from 1,353.37 dry tonnes of kimberlite collected from the Q1-4 kimberlite. "Our feeling is that those diamonds with those colours, which are a fairly signifi- cant part of the population, could be considered as true fancy coloured diamonds," said Armstrong. "If that is the case, they could attract a premium price. We are looking for more information on the stones through the polishing process." Armstrong said the diamonds are currently being colour certified at Canadian Gem Labs (CGL) in Vancouver. He noted that the stones of interest from Q 1-4 have been certified as fancy orangey-yellow diamonds by CGL. Orange diamonds are very rare so a diamond with the "orange" descriptor is considered more valuable. "The current exercise will help us determine what size of diamond sample parcel we require for an accurate valuation since the 384-carat parcel is not large enough," said Armstrong. "We are thinking that we would need some 3,000 carats recovered from about 10,000 tonnes. There are two diamond populations – white and yellow that may have to be valued separately which would increase the size of the required sample. We will decide on bulk sampling in the next couple of months, although we may do some more drilling first to define the five different phases in the kimberite." n miNiNg

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