VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 06/22/11 -- Peregrine Diamonds Ltd. ('Peregrine' or 'the Company') (TSX: PGD) is pleased to report the discovery by drilling of three new kimberlites, CH-56, CH-57 and CH-58, on the Chidliak project ('Chidliak' or 'the Project'). Chidliak is located on southern Baffin Island approximately 100
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 06/02/11 -- Peregrine Diamonds Ltd. (TSX: PGD) ('Peregrine' or 'the Company') is pleased to report the discovery by drilling of four new kimberlites, CH-52 to CH-55, on the Chidliak project ('Chidliak'). Chidliak is located on southern Baffin Island approximately 100 kilometres northeast of Iqaluit
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 04/20/11 -- Peregrine Diamonds Ltd. ('Peregrine' or 'the Company') (TSX: PGD) is pleased to report the discovery of the CH-51 kimberlite by core drilling on the Chidliak project ('Chidliak') on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. CH-51 is the first target drilled in 2011 and the fifty-first kimberlite
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 03/28/11 -- Peregrine Diamonds Ltd. (TSX: PGD) ('Peregrine' or 'the Company') is pleased to announce that the Chidliak Joint Venture (Peregrine 49% and BHP Billiton 51%) has approved a $17.7 million 2011 exploration program on the 8,580 square kilometre Chidliak project ('Chidliak' or 'the Project
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 03/03/11 -- Peregrine Diamonds Ltd. ('Peregrine' or 'the Company') (TSX: PGD) is pleased to report new microdiamond results confirming a coarse diamond size distribution in previously untested portions of the CH-1 kimberlite located on the 8,580 square kilometre Chidliak project ('Chidliak' or 'the
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 03/04/11 -- Peregrine Diamonds Ltd. ('Peregrine') (TSX: PGD) is pleased to announce the completion of a non-brokered private placement of 3,000,000 common shares at a price of $2.80 per share for proceeds of $8.4 million (the 'Private Placement'). The common shares issued under the Private Placement
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/24/11 -- Peregrine Diamonds Ltd. (TSX: PGD) ('Peregrine' or 'the Company') is pleased to report a coarse diamond size distribution in a 74.4 kilogram sample collected by core drilling from the CH-20 kimberlite located on the 8,580 square kilometre Chidliak project ('Chidliak' or 'the Project
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/22/11 -- Peregrine Diamonds Ltd. (TSX: PGD) ('Peregrine' or 'the Company') is pleased to report microdiamond results showing a coarse diamond size distribution from drill core and reverse circulation ('RC') drill cuttings acquired from the north and south lobes of the CH-7 kimberlite on the 8,580
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/15/11 -- Peregrine Diamonds Ltd. ('Peregrine' or 'the Company') (TSX: PGD) is pleased to announce 2011 plans for its 100%-owned Qilaq and Cumberland projects ('Qilaq' and 'Cumberland' respectively) located on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. At Qilaq, the Company discovered two diamondiferous
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 01/13/11 -- Peregrine Diamonds Ltd. (TSX: PGD) ('Peregrine' or 'the Company') is pleased to report a coarse diamond size distribution for a 173.6 kilogram sample of reverse circulation ('RC') drill cuttings collected from the CH-45 kimberlite on the 9,800 square kilometre Chidliak project ('Chidliak
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 12/16/10 -- Peregrine Diamonds Ltd. ('Peregrine' or 'the Company') (TSX: PGD) is pleased to report that Mr. Brooke Clements, President of Peregrine, has been awarded the Association of Mineral Exploration, BC's ('AMEBC') Hugo Dummett Award for his role in the discovery of the Renard cluster of
Exceptional White/Colorless Diamond Population With High Clarity and Superior Shapes
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 12/06/10 -- Peregrine Diamonds Ltd. ('Peregrine' or 'the Company') (TSX: PGD) is pleased to report that a 14.11 tonne mini-bulk sample of drill core collected from the CH-6 kimberlite returned 40.04 carats of commercial-sized diamonds larger than the 0.85 mm sieve size. The mini-bulk sample was divided into four sub-samples, based on geology. The sub-samples, which were processed separately and ranged in size from 1.03 to 7.56 tonnes, returned diamond grades of 6.81, 3.49, 2.82, and 2.03 carats per tonne ('cpt'). The sub-sample with the highest grade was collected from the upper portion of the pipe. Overall, the 14.11 tonne sample yielded 523 commercial-size diamonds, nine of which weighed 0.50 carat or more, including two diamonds larger than one carat. The largest three diamonds were a 1.29 carat off-white, transparent macle, a 1.02 carat off-white, transparent octahedron, and a 0.99 carat white/colorless, transparent, tetrahexahedron.