The Hammer project is located approximately 500 km north of Yellowknife and 85 km south of the Coronation Gulf in Nunavut.
Size:
A total of 2,533 acres, consisting of 2 claims.
Ownership:
75% Stornoway Diamonds, 25% North Arrow
Highlights:
Previous till sampling has identified a mineral indicator train with mineral chemistry indicative of a potentially diamond bearing kimberlitic intrusive.
New claim staked in the fall of 2008 to cover a prominent topographical low overburden covered area of approximately 0.7 hectares immediately south of the anomalous till samples.
Prospecting in 2009 located kimberlitic outcrop at the head of the mineral indicator train coincident with a large (1 hectare) topographic low.
Additional work including ground geophysics is planned for 2010.
Summary:
Large land packages in the Coronation Gulf (North Slave) area were acquired by a number of companies following Ashton's discovery of the Artemisia pipe in 2001. To date some 17 kimberlites are known to exist in the area. This includes the large (10.2 hectare) multiphase Knife pipe with reported grades of 11 to 31 cpht. One of the area projects was known as the Bear Project and it was operated as a joint venture between Stornoway and Navigator Exploration Corporation (now Strongbow Exploration Inc.). In 2007 Strongbow spun off their diamond assets into North Arrow Minerals. Work on the Bear Project in 2002 produced anomalous till sample results that were confirmed by follow up work in 2003. These results are indicative of a potentially diamond bearing kimberlitic intrusive.
Given the dominant ice direction for the area, the source of the anomalous mineral grains was interpreted to be off property. Only one of the original claims (TSC2) from the historical Bear Project was maintained in good standing and in the fall of 2008 one new claim was added (TR1). This claim adjoins the remaining Bear Project claim and was staked to cover the interpreted source area for the anomalous samples. Prospecting in 2009 located kimberlitic outcrop at the head of the mineral indicator train coincident with a large (1 hectare) topographic low. Additional work including ground geophysics is planned for 2010.
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