

Assist the entire Merlin team in the planning, implementation, and tracking of existing and future projects.Assist Merlin development staff and partners gathering requirements for new Merlin activities.Assist with Merlin content generation processes worldwide.Help expand to a global community by working with the Merlin team to further partnerships with other Cornell programs, external academic institutions, nongovernmental organizations and governmental departments and agencies in the U.S.


The mining lease contains a number of pre-existing assets, including a 2.4km airstrip, peripheral other logistics and mine infrastructure, a Tomra XRT sorter and various other used items of equipment. Just under half of the resource (13.4Mt and 2.3m carats) is classified as indicated resource, based on recovered grades and achieved diamond value data from the 1999 – 2003. The mining lease contains an existing kimberlite diamond resource containing 27.8Mt at an average grade of ~16 carats per hundred tonnes (cpht) for 4.4m contained carats. Of the 11 known kimberlites, eight of the kimberlite pipes were mined by Ashton Diamonds and Rio Tinto between 19, producing over 500,000 carats from 2.2 million tonnes of kimberlite treated, including the largest diamond ever recovered in Australia, a 104 carat Type IIa white diamond as pictured below. All kimberlite discoveries to date on the tenements are diamondiferous. Two kimberlites have also been discovered on the exploration tenement. The mining lease contains 11 previously discovered kimberlite pipes in three general kimberlite clusters - Northern, Central and Southern. The Merlin Diamond Project includes two tenements - a 24km 2 tenement with a mining lease and a 283km 2 exploration tenement surrounding the mining lease located in the Northern Territory of Australia, approximately 720km south-east of Darwin.
