Arctic Star Exploration Corp. is pleased to announce it has received the first diamond results from its Spring drilling program where 5 new kimberlites were discovered. The first results are from the Sequoia kimberlite complex and are described below in table 1. Table 1. Caustic Fusion Results, Sequoia Kimberlite ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Drill [...]
Arctic Star Exploration Corp. is pleased to report the more detailed geological logs for the Sequoia kimberlite. The core has been logged in Yellowknife by Dan Gainer, P. Geo. A geologist who is knowledgeable in kimberlite geology. The Sequoia kimberlite is thought to be a number of kimberlite intrusive and volcanic events that have coalesced into an approximately 1 km long and 200 m wide kimberlite complex. Arctic [...]
Arctic Star Exploration Corp. announces that it has retained Stockhouse Publishing Ltd. to provide investor awareness and digital media communication services to the Company. Stockhouse will assist Arctic Star in communicating with its shareholder base, prospective investors and the investment community as a whole. The agreement with Stockhouse is for a term of 6 months commencing from May 21, 2021 and the Company will [...]
Arctic Star Exploration Corp. is pleased to announce it has staked and filed 27 new claims on the Diagras project where it is the operator. The Diagras project is a Joint Venture between Arctic Star and Margaret Lake Diamonds Inc. Arctic Star took over management of the Diagras project this year and proposed a $2.1 million "spring 2021" budget to drill geophysical targets on the property. At the end of this budget period [...]
Arctic Star Exploration Corp. is pleased to announce that it has received more detailed geological logs for the Birch kimberlite. The core has been logged in Yellowknife by Dan Gainer, P. Geo. A geologist who is familiar with kimberlites. Dan has recognized two kimberlite types in the two drill holes drilled at Birch. Kimberlite 1 is described as a black olivine poor resedimented volcanoclastic kimberlite and Kimberlite 2 [...]
Arctic Star Exploration Corp. Arctic Star is pleased to announce that drill hole DG2021-08 completed at 145m, intersecting kimberlite from 31.0m to 113.6m in the Cedar kimberlite discovery. This completes our successful spring program discovering 5 kimberlites named Birch, Sequoia, Alder, and Cedar. A 0.5m kimberlite dyke has been confirmed by detailed logging DG2021-03 a hole drilled 125m east of the Birch kimberlite [...]
Arctic Star Exploration Corp. is pleased to announce that a fourth kimberlite has been discovered during our Spring 2021 exploration program on the Diagras project, Lac de Gras district, NWT. The discovery has been named Cedar. The Cedar kimberlite was found by drilling a distinct EM anomaly 150m south of the known Penelope kimberlite. Drilling at a dip of 70° it encountered kimberlite below the overburden at 31m in [...]
Arctic Star Exploration Corp. is pleased to announce that a third kimberlite has been discovered during our Spring 2021 exploration program on the Diagras project, Lac de Gras district. The discovery has been named Alder. The Alder kimberlite was found by drilling a distinct EM anomaly in the vicinity of the known HL02 kimberlite. Drilling at a dip of 60° it encountered kimberlite at 19 meters in depth. As of writing this [...]
Arctic Star Exploration Corp. is pleased to announce that our latest drilling confirms the discovery and recognition of the Sequoia Kimberlite Complex. It was discovered by drilling two holes into a combined EM, magnetic and gravity anomaly that extends for 1km north to south, up to 200m wide. At the south end of the anomaly is the known Jack Pine kimberlite discovered in the 1990s by drill testing a distinct magnetic [...]
Arctic Star Exploration Corp. is pleased to announce that it has made a new kimberlite discovery, on the Diagras project in the Lac de Gras kimberlite field NWT 380km north of Yellowknife. The discovery has been named the Sequoia Kimberlite. It was discovered by drilling a vertical hole into a portion of an EM and gravity anomaly that in combination extends for 1km north to south and 200m wide. The Jack Pine kimberlite [...]
Arctic Star Exploration Corp. is pleased to announce that it has made a new discovery on the Diagras project in the Lac de Gras kimberlite field, Northwest Territory. 380km north of Yellowknife. The discovery has been named the Birch Kimberlite. It was discovered by drilling a vertical hole into a EM and gravity anomaly. The anomaly also occupies a distinct gap in an otherwise continuous Mackenzie diabase dyke in the [...]
Arctic Star Exploration Corp. is pleased to announce drilling has commenced on the Diagras diamond project located in the diamond corridor of the prolific Lac de Gras kimberlite field, 22km NNE of the Diavik diamond mine & 36km east of the Ekati diamond mine in NWT Canada. Arctic Star's Diagras project contains 23 kimberlites previously discovered by DeBeers. Highlights - $2 Million Financing Completed for Drilling [...]