Summary of Recent Results from Talmora Near Surface Drill Program
Hole TAL21-002 returned 1.65 grams per tonne (gpt) gold over 11.5 m (metres) around the past-producing Talmora gold mine.
Summary of Previously Released Result from Phase One Drill Programs to Date
Hole TB21-005E, a wedge hole drilled from mother hole TB21-005, returned 5.29 gpt gold over 8.0m from the targeted F-Zone. A second interval of 13.88 gpt gold over 2.0m was encountered somewhat deeper in a new mineralized structure deemed the F2-Zone.
Hole TB21-005B, another wedge hole drilled from hole TB21-005, returned 8.15 gpt gold over 4.1m from the F-Zone.
Hole TB21-005A, the first wedge hole drilled from TB21-005, returned 6.23 gpt gold over 13.3m confirming Hardrock's robust F-Zone extends onto Tombill's flagship property.
The Company is encouraged by the number of other multiple subsidiary zones that the drilling has intersected both above and below the main F-Zone target. These subsidiary zones are relatively narrow where they have been intersected due to their different plunge orientation when compared to the F-Zone. It is anticipated that these zones will be the focus of additional work after the F-Zone has been more fully delineated.
Results from the Talmora Near Surface Drilling Program
Tombill has completed an initial drilling program to investigate the extent of near surface gold mineralization around the historic Talmora mine on Tombill's
The Talmora drill program consisted of three diamond drill holes totalling 1,146 meters of core drilling and was targeted to test the area around the Talmora vein (also referred to as the Elmos vein in some historic records). The historic Talmora vein was explored, and test mined, from a shaft driven on an island in
The three holes in this program each intersected the Talmora vein within strongly foliated and sericite altered gabbro/diorite host rocks with up to 3% pyrite and 1.5% arsenopyrite mineralization. The best result from the program was in hole TAL21-002 which returned 1.65 gpt Au over 11.5 meters at a depth of 154.5 to 166.0 meters down the hole.
The gabbro/diorite intrusive rocks hosting the gold mineralization encountered in these initial three drill holes are relatively competent and impermeable and usually not the ideal host for the broad halos of low-grade mineralization in the
Tombill will maintain its exploration program drill testing to define the extent of the F-Zone where recent drilling has confirmed the westward extension from the adjoining Greenstone Mines property onto the
Historical Mining in the Geraldton Gold
The Geraldton Gold Camp was mined sporadically from the 1930's to 70's where it produced some 3 million Au oz with an average grade of 5.87 gpt from ten past-producing mines over a 15km strike length. Since then, six out those ten past-producing mines have been the focus of modern exploration drill programs which have added additional mineral resources. Tombill Mines owns two of these past producing mines and will be doing further exploration on them, including the recent drilling at Talmora.
The Company's strategic location with its past-producing mine-sites makes those high probability targets for exploration. Those targets will be included in the Company's Bayesian ranking stratagem for further evaluation.
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