Jeweller - October 2018

NEWS
Adina Watches Polocrosse timekeeper
Visitors at the International Jewellery Fair
were treated to some horsing around when
Adina Watches invited two special guests
to the Sydney ICC.
The Queensland-based watch company
invited retailers to pose with two
polocrosse horses to announce its
partnership with the Polocrosse World
Cup 2019.
Dubbing its role as the official timekeeper
of the event, Adina Watches general
manager Grant Menzies said the horses’
presence created quite a spectacle.
“The announcement was a few weeks ago
to the national media, but we kept it under
wraps in the trade as much as we could
with the view to make an impact at this
year’s International Jewellery Fair. The hope
was to create a bit of novel excitement and
some theatre at the Fair. I feel we certainly
achieved that,” he said.
The company had originally been
in negotiations focused around the
Polocrosse organisation purchasing
custom-made watches for the event. But
Menzies said as the deal unfolded it was “a
perfect fit” and “to secure the naming rights
THE ADINA WATCHES TEAM AT IJF 2018
of a World Championships is a real coup
for Adina.”
“Watch manufacturers have always been
heavily involved in sport, as is so often the
case the difference between winning and
losing can come down to a hundredth of a
second. It is having the ability to time these
events where the real prestige lies,” he said.
“For us the prestige is not only having
the ability to time an event, but to find a
sport that is solid fit for our brand and one
which adds real value to who we are. The
Polocrosse World Cup does exactly this on
a number of levels.”
‘Unprecedented’ diamond yield in WA
A single drill hole has yielded more
than 1,100 diamonds just 50km north of
Ellendale Mine in Western Australia.
Lucapa Diamond Company unearthed
the diamonds in a 187kg sample of drill
core during its operation at Brooking
Mine, 1,800km north of Perth. Chairman
Miles Kennedy told ABC News the
“unprecedented” find was the company’s
second significant discovery since it began
drilling for lamproite at Little Spring
Creek last year.
“It is three times as good as the
first sensational find, so these two
results together basically confirm that
we certainly have one diamondiferous
lamproite,” he said.
“It’s early days, but it looks as if we have
found Australia’s next diamond field and if
that is the case, this is the beginning of a
very long and happy developing story.”
Kennedy established Ellendale Mine almost
25 years ago and said advancements in
technology have assisted in the mining
company’s operations. Since Kimberley
Diamond Company was placed under
administration at Ellendale mine in
2015, Kennedy and the team at Lucapa
have closed in on surrounding areas by
conducting geophysical mapping surveys.
“We were able to find and mine diamonds
at Ellendale, we also explored the Brooking
Little Spring area [but] we didn’t have
the great geological tools like we have
today,” he said.
“As it turned out, we missed these targets
by a kilometre [and] the new tools seem
to be indicating that this is in fact a whole
new discovery.”
The company used helicopter driven
technology to survey the Brooking Mine
project that assisted in identifying 11
additional drilling targets within a 10km
radius of Little Spring Creek.
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