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Talahib Prospect: A Promising Porphyry Prospect Being Brought to the Drill Stage
The Talahib prospect is located about eight kilometers west of Lobo Project and eleven kilometers southwest of the Taysan porphyry deposit. Reconnaissance work has located significant copper and gold mineralization at Talahib. The prospect area is underlain by andesitic volcanics intruded by a series of phyllic and SCC-altered diorite and microdiorite intrusions, and capped in places with younger Quaternary tuff.
Stream sediment sampling yielded strong anomalies to 650 ppm copper, 468 parts per billion (ppb) gold, 100 ppm lead and 327 ppm zinc. Reconnaissance rock channel sampling of heavily mineralized hydrothermal breccia assayed 3.33% copper and 0.10 g/t gold over 20 meters, which included 6.55% copper and 0.16 g/t gold over ten meters. About 200 meters south of this an outcrop of SCC-phyllic altered diorite gave 0.74% copper and 0.15 g/t gold over 30 meters. Another channel sample from phyllic-altered diorite outcrop 500 meters north of the hydrothermal breccia, assayed 1.04% copper and 0.09 g/t gold over 20 meters. Detailed ground geological and induced polarization surveys are planned for 2008, followed by drilling, subject to receipt of an exploration permit.
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