Talisman Mining discovers new copper anomalies at Springfield
Monday, 19 Oct 2009
Talisman Mining has announced the results from a reconnaissance lag and soil geochemical sampling program at its Springfield copper gold Project located 150 kilometers North East of Meekatharra.
The company, which has key interests in iron ore, precious and base metals, announced the sampling program had identified additional areas of copper anomalism that are interpreted to be coincident with the prospective Upper Narracoota Volcanic Formation.
The results complete the Phase I of geochemical sampling at the Springfield Project and complement the recently reported detailed geochemical results.
The Springfield copper gold project which covers about 300 square kilometers of ground immediately adjacent to Sandfire’s Doolgunna Project, hosts the recently discovered DeGrussa high grade copper gold volcanogenic massive sulphide deposit.
The program of reconnaissance multi element geochemical lag and soil sampling was completed over a 15 kilometers strike length of the prospective Upper Narracoota Volcanic Formation located on the southern limb of the Robinson syncline. The results from the geochemical sampling program have identified a new extensive zone of copper anomalism defined by lag sampling that extends over a strike length of at least 9 kilometers.
Continued research of open file exploration data has also successfully identified results from historical drilling by Western Mining Corporation which contain highly anomalous base metal results including 6m at 0.4% copper and 0.26% zinc.
Final design of an initial surface moving loop electromagnetic survey is well advanced and it is anticipated that the survey will start by the end of 2009.
