Tres-Or Announces Drilling is Underway at the Guigues Pipe and New Findings from the Diamond Indicator Mineral Chemistry
Tres-Or Announces Drilling is Underway at the Guigues Pipe and New Findings
from the Diamond Indicator Mineral Chemistry
Vancouver, B.C. – December 9, 2019 - Tres-Or Resources Ltd. (“Tres-Or” or the “Company”)
(TSXV: TRS, OTCPK: TRSFF ) is drilling the Guigues Kimberlite pipe in southwestern Quebec
as a high-priority diamond exploration target. The Guigues Kimberlite has substantial size (5 to
7 hectares), excellent local infrastructure, and most importantly highly encouraging diamond
indicator mineral chemistry. It has never yet been tested by modern microdiamond methods.
The highly encouraging indicator mineral chemistry at Guigues is closely similar to De Beers’
Victor Diamond Mine, and differs from the standard model for diamond exploration. The
Guigues Kimberlite diamond potential, like that of the Victor Diamond Mine, is based on high -
priority potential source of diamonds from mantle eclogite and lherzolite rocks, instead of the
standard harzburgite (G10) sources. The potential diamond source for Guigues is marked by
recovery of eclogite and lherzolite garnets that have distinctive compositions just like dia mond
inclusions recently described from Victor by Stachel et al. (2018). The dominance of lherzolite
garnets found as inclusions in Victor diamonds (along with a lesser proportion of eclogite garnet
inclusions) is unique among diamond mines around the wor ld, and as Thomas Stachel, the
University of Alberta researcher who made this discovery points out, may lead to a new model
for diamond targets. The Guigues Kimberlite yields numerous lherzolite and eclogite garnets of
comparable diamond inclusion composition, as recently confirmed by application of CF Mineral
Research Laboratory’s updated classification system by owner and originator Dr. Charles Fipke.
Guigues is thus a priority target for this new diamond potential model.
Guigues Project Exploration Program Underway
Tres-Or is drilling its 100% owned Guigues Pipe. The primary purpose of the drill program is to
collect core samples for modern microdiamond testing, which has never been done on the
property before.
Tres-Or strongly believes the Guigues Pipe merits direct testing for microdiamonds at a modern
independent Canadian microdiamond laboratory, given the recovery of numerous lherzolite and
eclogite garnets comparable to diamond inclusions from De Beers’ Victor Diamond Mine, and
the potential for high-quality diamonds as suggested by production from the Victor Mine within
the same geological trend.
Tres-Or plans to drill 5 drill holes, test all parts of the Guigues Kimberlite pipe, and recover core
samples suitable for modern microdiamond testin g at a Canadian experienced commercial
laboratory.
Guigues story
The Guigues Kimberlite was discovered by De Beers in 1983, and was the first kimberlite pipe
discovered in eastern Canada. De Beers drilled two holes (working at the time under the name
Monopros), and filed the work with the Quebec government sufficient to hold the claims only
until 1989, when the claims expired (ironically, the low cost of operating around Guigues may
have contributed to De Beers losing the claims too soon!). Guigues la cked G10 garnet
chemistry, and was not further pursued by De Beers. Notably, in 1987 De Beers discovered the
Victor Kimberlite, along with others in the Attawapiskat region of Ontario. Like Guigues, Victor
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lacks G10 garnets and was not prioritized by De Beers, which moved their Canadian focus to
the NWT after Dr. Charles Fipke’s famous discovery of diamonds there near Lac de Gras in
1992. However, De Beers had completed enough work to keep the Victor claims until the late
1990s, when they went back and r efocused on Victor. This refocus better recognized the
importance of eclogite as a potential mantle source for diamonds, and utilized more reliable
microdiamond testing method s to convince De Beers they had a significant diamond mine at
Victor. By this t ime, however, De Beers had long lost the Guigues claims so refocusing at
Guigues was not possible. In fact, Tres-Or Resources had taken control of the claims covering
Guigues, and continues to hold them now.
Tres-Or completed RC drill holes to the top of the kimberlite to recover indicator minerals, which
included numerous distinctive and high -priority eclogite garnets comparable to inclusions in
diamonds from around the world. In addition, Tres -Or identified a single chromite and several
chrome diopsides with compositions pointing to the kimberlite being derived from the diamond
stability field. The eclogite garnets with diamond inclusion compositions were especially
encouraging because eclogite with abundant diamonds is known from mines around the world.
Because of the distinctive eclogite garnets from Guigues with diamond inclusion compositions,
Tres-Or made plans to complete five drill holes for core, testing all parts of the Guigues
kimberlite for microdiamonds.
Happily, recent resear ch with Victor diamonds has further enhanced the potential for Guigues.
Specifically, after the research team at U of A led by Thomas Stachel demonstrated that both
eclogite and lherzolite garnets occur as inclusions in Victor diamonds (and no G10s!), Dr.
Charles Fipke reclassified Tres -Or’s Guigues indicator mineral chemistry using his updated
system, identifying numerous lherzolite garnets with diamond inclusion compositions just like
Victor’s diamond inclusions, in addition to the already prioritized di amond inclusion eclogite
garnets. The abundance of eclogite and lherzolite indicators associated with diamond make s
Guigues a high-priority unconventional diamond target, just like Victor.
About Tres-Or Resources Ltd.
Tres-Or Resources Ltd. is a Canadian resource company focused on exploring for diamond
resources in the Témiscamingue region of Québec. The Company also has exposure to certain
gold projects in the Abitibi region of Québec that have been optioned to Kiboko Exp loration Inc.
Additional information related to the Company is available on SEDAR and on the Company’s
website (www.tres-or.com).
On behalf of the Board of Directors
“Laura Lee Duffett”
Laura Lee Duffett, P.Geo.
President and CEO
For further information:
Laura Lee Duffett, President & CEO: +1 (604) 541-8376 – [email protected]
Dean Claridge, Business Development: +1 (604) 688-8700
Website: www.tres-or.com
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