Talon Metals Corp (TSE:TLO) (OTCMKTS:TLOFF) (FRA:TAO) has revealed new drill results showing massive sulphide mineralization from a previously undrilled area on its Tamarack nickel project in Minnesota.
The new target, known as CGO West, is around 100 metres north-northeast of Tamarack’s already-defined resource area and extends for another 400 metres.
Results from the first three holes included 5.3 metres of massive sulphide mineralization, 35 metres of nickel-copper mineralization, including 2.5 metres of massive sulphide mineralization, and 9.1 metres of nickel-copper mineralization, including 2.2 metres of massive sulphide mineralization.
Assays are pending on the intersections, Talon told shareholders.
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The results show massive sulphide mineralization at shallow depths similar to the CGO East target area, according to the company. Talon is following up these drill holes with BHEM surveys to determine the strategy for upcoming targets in order to connect this area into a potential resource, it added.
The British Virgin Islands-based, Toronto-listed company said that the CGO West area is a “vast exploration target” that has the potential to add early mine-life volume to Tamarack’s current mine plan.
“We are excited that the first three drill holes in this new target area have all successfully intersected massive sulphide nickel mineralization at shallow depths,” Talon’s vice president of geology Etienne Dinel said in a statement.
“Based upon very limited data, we now interpret the CGO West area to potentially host similar shallow, sheet-like mineralization as has been found within the CGO East area. This is indeed an exciting new development at the Tamarack nickel project."
Tamarack is part of a joint venture with Rio Tinto PLC (LON:RIO) and comprises the Tamarack North project and the Tamarack South project, which spans an 18-kilometre land position with numerous high-grade intercepts outside the current resource area.
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