{"id":599,"date":"2011-04-20T10:50:30","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/talisman-on-target-for-a-big-hit\/"},"modified":"2011-04-20T10:50:30","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T23:50:30","slug":"talisman-on-target-for-a-big-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/talisman-on-target-for-a-big-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Talisman on target for a big hit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Talisman Mining Ltd (ASX: TLM) is pleased to advise that the drilling of a single deep diamond drill hole (approximately 1,500 metres) has now commenced at its 100% owned Shelby Project in Western Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The Shelby Project is located on the northern margin of the Bryah Basin approximately 30km north of the Horseshoe Lights Copper-Gold Mine (see Figure 1).<\/p>\n<p>The total project area covers an approximate 100km strike length of a major structural corridor.<\/p>\n<p>Evaluation of recently collected airborne magnetic data indicates excellent potential for large intrusive bodies either of mafic-ultramafic or granitic affinity that have the potential to host a range of deposit types including mafic-ultramafic intrusive related nickel-copper deposits (e.g. Voisey\u2019s Bay (Vale), West Musgrave (BHPB)) and\/or Iron Oxide Copper Gold (IOCG) deposits (e.g. Olympic Dam (BHBP))<\/p>\n<p>Talisman plans to test this concept by drilling a 1,500 metre diamond drill hole into a large modelled magnetic target at Shelby (see Figure 2) and has been granted co-funding of up to $200,000 under the WA State Government Exploration Incentive Scheme (EIS).<\/p>\n<p>Examination of open file records by Talisman found that BHPB had drilled a single 520 metre diamond hole to test this target in 1996. The single drill hole intersected highly altered mafic-ultramafic lithologies at approximately 450 metres further supporting the concept for the potential existence of a large intrusive mafic-ultramafic body with the potential to host magmatic nickel-copper sulphides.<\/p>\n<p>The deep drill hole and associated programs of down-hole geophysics is anticipated to take approximately 6 weeks to complete.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-600\" title=\"tlm-sfr\" src=\"http:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/tlm-sfr-600x346.jpg\" alt=\"tlm-sfr\" width=\"600\" height=\"346\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-597\" title=\"shelby-deep-hole\" src=\"http:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/shelby-deep-hole-600x294.jpg\" alt=\"shelby-deep-hole\" width=\"600\" height=\"294\" \/><\/p>\n<p>BULLSEYE?<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-598\" title=\"shelby-target-huge\" src=\"http:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/shelby-target-huge-600x517.jpg\" alt=\"shelby-target-huge\" width=\"600\" height=\"517\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Talisman Mining Ltd (ASX: TLM) is pleased to advise that the drilling of a single deep diamond drill hole (approximately 1,500 metres) has now commenced at its 100% owned Shelby Project in Western Australia. The Shelby Project is located on the northern margin of the Bryah Basin approximately 30km north of the Horseshoe Lights Copper-Gold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gold-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}