North Arrow Minerals Inc., a Canadian based exploration company focused on the identification and evaluation of diamond exploration opportunities in Canada,  has annnounced that the results of the ongoing processing of the Qilalugaq Diamond Project bulk sample are expected in April. The number of commercial sized (+0.85 mm) diamonds and the resulting diamond parcel will be used to provide an indication of the overall diamond value of the kimberlite pipes that are being assessed.

It may be recalled that an approximately 1,500 tonne sample was collected in July and August 2014 from the Q1-4 kimberlite located just nine kilometres from the Hamlet of Repulse Bay (Naujaat), Nunavut.

The dense media processing of this sample is being conducted by Microlithics Laboratories Inc. in Thunder Bay, ON.  Final processing of the DMS concentrate is being conducted at Stornoway Diamond Corporation’s x-ray sorting machine and diamond sorting facility in North Vancouver, BC. 

The results will also give an indication of the sample’s diamond content, size distribution and establish whether or not a population of yellow diamonds seen in earlier-stage sampling persists into the larger diamond sizes.