Tres-Or Resources Ltd. Guigues Kimberlite - Quebec Diamond target • First Kimberlite pipe discovered in Quebec (1983) o Before reliable microdiamond testing available! • Substantial size: +5 hectares based on drilling and mag 200 m • Good indicator mineral chemistry comparable to the Victor Mine o Eclogite garnets with diamond inclusion (DI) compositions 1.50 Eclogite garnets 1.40 1.30 1.20 1.10 1.00 o Cr-pyropes with DI compositions 0.90 0.80 0.70 0.60 0.50 0.40 o Olivines with DI and DI overlap compositions 0.30 0.20 0.10 0.00 0.00 0.02 0.04 0.06 0.08 0.10 0.12 0.14 0.16 0.18 0.2 o Chromite with DI composition o Chrome diopsides from diamond stability field • Very good access – paved highways and farm roads, power lines, etc. o Notre Dame du Nord region of Quebec, south of Rouyn Noranda • Tres-Or has long-term working relations with the Timiskaming First Nations • The Guigues Kimberlite merits first high-resolution microdiamond testing!
De Beers (working under the name Monopros) discovered the Guigues kimberlite pipe in southern Quebec in 1983. Guigues was the first kimberlite pipe discovered by De Beers in Canada, and the first pipe discovered by anyone east of the Rockies. Guigues did not fit De Beers model for indicator mineral chemistry at that time, nor did it yield enough microdiamonds to their (relatively primitive) tests and they lost the claims by 1990. An analogous story applies to the Victor kimberlite, which De Beers discovered in northern Ontario in 1988. After a minimal amount of testing, Victor also did not fit De beers indicator mineral model, nor yield abundant microdiamonds and De Beers abandoned Victor for the diamond rush in the NW Territories by the early 1990s. In Victor’s case, however, De Beers kept the claims (due to the amount of assessment work credit they had accrued in Ontario) and returned to re-examine Victor in the late 1990s. Due to advances in microdiamond testing and understanding of the importance of eclogite garnet indicator compositions, De Beers soon realized that they had a world-class diamond mine at Victor, now famous for some of the highest quality diamonds of any kimberlite pipe in the world. By this time Tres-Or held the rights to Guigues! Tres-Or has completed ground and airborne geophysics to define Guigues, as well as RC sampling for indicator minerals from the top of the Guigues pipe in 4 places. The geophysics indicates the Guigues pipe is of substantial size covering 5 to 7 hectares. These indicator mineral samples show that Guigues has diamond inclusion eclogite garnets (like Victor!), Cr- pyropes, olivines chromite and diamond stability field chrome diopsides, based on Tres- Or’s and CFM’s data analyses. The Guigues indicator chemistry is similarly encouraging like the Victor Diamond Mine. Now, Tres-Or proposes to drill 5 holes covering the Guigues pipe for modern, high- sensitivity microdiamond tests.
Tres- Or’s Guigues Kimberlite is accessible by paved highways, and located near all required infrastructure and the town of Notre Dame du Nord. GUIGUES KIMBERLITE
Tres-Or completed high-resolution helicopter-borne magnetics and a 3D inversion model in 2015 to better define the pipe. 200 m 6.9 hectare outline
Tres-Or also completed 6 shallow RC drill holes to the top of the kimberlite to collect indicator minerals and further define the pipe.
GUIGUES ECLOGITE GARNET GUIGUES KIMBERLITE INDICATOR MINERAL CHEMISTRY Most important result: GUIGUES Mg-ILMENITE DIAMOND INCLUSIONS Multiple eclogite garnets with diamond inclusion compositions CFM Laboratory classification* (Chuck Fipke’s lab) Diamond Associated compositions! EG: 7 DI+12 prob. DI + 18 possible DI PY G-11: 5 DI OLV: 23 of 74 DI or DI overlap CHR: 1 DI *DI = DIAMOND INCLUSIONS Guigues Chrome Diopside P(K bar) and T(°C) (method after Nimis and Taylor, 2000) 1600 GUIGUES CHROMITE GUIGUES CHROMITE 1400 Temperature (C) 1200 DIAMOND INCLUSIONS 1000 800 DIAMOND STABILITY 600 FIELD 400 200 0 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100110120130140 Pressure (K bar)
Tres- Or’s Guigues Kimberlite pipe: Mineral chemistry comparable to De Beers’ world class Victor Diamond Mine Never been tested by modern microdiamond methods Substantial size (5 to 7 hectares) Very good access and infrastructure Tres-Or has a long-term working relations with the Timiskaming First Nations Tres-Or is preparing to complete 5 drill holes for the first microdiamond tests covering all phases of the Guigues Kimberlite pipe Stock symbol TSXV: TRS Contact: Laura Lee Duffett, Director and CEO 604 541-8376 laura@tres-or.com
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