There seems to be a bit of confusion about the results of the sampling. The extract below is from the announcement and clearly states that anything over 10mm has been rejected because of a limitation with the plant - it cant handle anything larger than 10mm.
That reject pile may - which equates to approx 8 tonnes of material - (I wish) contain 100s of diamonds larger than 10mm.
The relevant part of the ann is below.
The DMS plant consists of a feed hopper
fitted with a 50 mm grizzly to remove the
oversize material prior to delivery to a
scrubbing trommel fitted with a minimum
of 0.5 mm and a maximum of 10 mm
screens. In the scrubbing unit the sample
is disaggregated and de-slimed, with the
fine clay and sand fractions being removed
and piped to the tailings pond and the plus
10 mm material rejected to the oversize
stockpile. Essentially the plant from this
point forward does not have the capacity to
treat any material larger than 10 mm.
From the scrubbing trommel the plus 0.5
mm and minus 10 mm fraction is pumped
to a dewatering screen after which it is
introduced to the dense media slurry that
via a cyclone enables the separation of
the material into heavy and light mineral
fractions. Whereas the light fraction is
discarded by the cyclone the heavy fraction,
consisting of a range of minerals including
any diamonds that may be present, is
recovered as a Heavy Mineral Concentrate
(HMC) that is henceforth treated by Xray,
heavy liquid and final hand sorting
processes to recover the diamonds. These
final stages of the processing, and in
particular the hand sorting process, were
undertaken by specialist laboratories and
personnel in Perth.
Of the 100.05 tonnes of kimberlite
processed approximately 8% was rejected
at the grizzly as being too large for
processing. Of the remaining material 5%
was rejected at the scrubber and 10%
by the cyclone (light mineral fraction).
The balance of the material consisted of
material finer than 0.5 mm (sent to the
tailings pond) and 101 kilograms (0.11%) of
heavy mineral concentrate.
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