Shear Reports Diamond Content Range Up From Recovery Reject Tailings Audit at Jericho

Shear Diamonds Ltd. (TSXV:SRM) announced the confirmation of a sample grade of 11.3 carats per tonne (“cpt”) from an internal audit of 308.8 kg of kimberlite concentrate from the recovery reject tailings at the Jericho Diamond Mine.

The press release states that:

For the purposes of the 2010-2011 audit, the sample, processed at the Saskatchewan Research Council’s Geoanalytical Laboratories Diamond Services (“SRC”), was fed into an High Pressure Grinding Roll (“HPGR”) and crushed with a 4mm gap setting. The crushed concentrate was then run through a diamond recovery circuit consisting of an X-Ray Flowsort and Grease Table audit using a bottom cutoff size of 0.85mm.

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