ANOM-kerry told me after you last spoke to her that they were building up to full production-they wernt quite there yet but were anticipating it in next few months-this was in mid december i think so if we believe her all these assumptions about decreased production rates are rubbish-anyway there must be a technical answer as well as adding in drier kimberlite that will solve this forthwith-we are not in the dark ages here and it must have been encountered before in diamond mining !once this gets sorted if it is a problem we should see blue sky-this whole placing thing could have been a lot lot worse and even if 30,000 carats go to market thats a tidy little sum in the bank-roll on end jan