Hi,
I've had the following enquiry - can anyone help please?
Mike Gill
Dear Mr. Gill,
I have been going through old notes and have found an item by Roger Bade, dated February 2000, on "Diamonds in the Highlands". I have tried to locate the company - Cambrian Mineral Resources, based in Bristol. However, a Google.com search and call to Bristol for a list of business' has not shown the current existence of this company.
Are there any quick answers as to what happened to this company, please?
Apart from the Geological Survey, are there any other organizations in the UK where one might find news information about diamond exploration?
It seems that the absence of further information indicates that results from 2000 were not favourable. It is interesting that the samples were sent to Chuck Fipke's lab in Kelowna, British Columbia - perhaps implying there are no suitable capabilities in the UK. As a polarized-light-microscopist myself, I note that a lot of diamond tracer-mineral work is done by elemental analysis using such as microprobes, seeking a characteristic geochemistry, rather than the simpler optical properties associated with the variations of that geochemistry. One can always enhance results by using a full box of analytical tools, but I sometimes wonder if the concept of simpler methods available to amateurs might initially produce a broader range of location data, rather than limiting ones work to a narrower geographical target due to the cost of more advanced techniques, or because these advanced techniques are not available to the amateur. ( That is lousy English! Maybe if I tried harder I could make that sentence even longer!).
Sincerely, Garth Ziemba
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