Talon Metals Corp. (TSX:TLO) announced that it has successfully intercepted new high-grade nickel-copper mineralization at its Tamarack project in Minnesota, nearly 3.2 kilometres outside of the current nickel-copper resource area.
The base metals company said the high-grade nickel mineralization will be called the ‘Raptor Zone’, with its exploration team intersecting high-grade nickel in first six out of nine holes, and Talon believes it has confirmed a brand new ‘system’ of high-grade nickel-copper mineralization within the Tamarack Intrusive Complex.
“New drilling shows us that the Tamarack Intrusive Complex can be a district-scale nickel-copper resource right here in the United States,” Talon Metals chief exploration and operations officer Brian Goldner said in a statement.
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“While still early in the process, these preliminary results provide definitive evidence that the Tamarack Intrusive Complex has district-scale potential, and as a consequence of these exciting initial results, we intend to make further exploration along the Tamarack Intrusive Complex a priority in 2023,” Goldner added.
Talon noted the name ‘Raptor’ was chosen due to the zone’s resemblance to the iconic predator's profile that shows up in the magnetic survey.
It added that the nickel mineralization found in the Raptor Zone appears to be dominantly massive sulphide rip ups, suggesting that the massive sulphide was originally formed elsewhere and has been eroded and transported to where it currently resides.
Talon also stated that the Raptor Zone is following a similar trend (plunge and dip) and is parallel to the intrusive units in the company's nickel-coper resource area but lies at a different elevation below the resource and the down-dip projection of that structure lines up with the top of the Magnetotelluric (MT) anomaly, now named ‘Raptor's Nest’.
Talon Metals is a TSX-listed base metals company developing the high-grade Tamarack nickel-copper-cobalt project located in central Minnesota.
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