Sky Metals (ASX: SKY) has commenced RC Drilling at the historic Tallebung Tin Mine in NSW, Australia, targeting a shallow, bulk tonnage tin deposit before drilling recommencing at the 3KEL – Doradilla tin project.
Exploration Manager, Oliver Davies, said Reassessment of previous drilling results has highlighted the potential for bulk tonnage tin mineralisation at Tallebung. Previous results include:
“The re-evaluation of the Tallebung Tin Project as a bulk tonnage resource is an exciting target for SKY with current record tin prices over $60,000/t, 1% tin corresponds in value to over 7g/t Au.
“The existing, extensive drilling of over 1.2km open strike of outcropping tin mineralisation provides an advanced base to begin this next round of work.
“This, in combination with the simple metallurgy of the cassiterite-hosted tin, provide a strong platform for SKY to quickly progress the Tallebung Project before returning to the 3KEL Target once localised flooding has abated.”
The Board of Sky Metals Limited (‘SKY’ or ‘The Company’) is pleased to provide an update on exploration activities at the Tallebung Tin Target at the Tallebung Project in NSW.
Tallebung Target – RC Drilling
Eleven RC holes are planned in this new RC drilling program at the historic Tallebung Tin Mine for a total of approximately 2000m to test the up dip, shallow potential for further bulk tonnage tin mineralisation.
Tin mineralisation at Tallebung has a strike of over 1.2km and is open along strike. SKY has identified several areas where the mineralisation is open up dip to surface and indicates potential to further increase the size of the Tallebung Target in shallow, up dip and near surface areas.
SKY has previously completed two drilling programs for a total of thirteen RC holes and two deep diamond drill holes with one wedge hole in 2019.
The work in 2019 focussed on exploring for high-grade tin lodes and a large underlying ‘tin porphyry’. A review of this drilling, and work completed by past explorers, has resulted in SKY assessing Tallebung as a bulk tonnage target and recalculating the previously reported high-grade intercepts as bulk, length-weighted averages over broad intervals, an example is given below for TBRC006:
TBRC006: 87m @ 0.18% tin from 60m, including;; 1m @ 5.83% tin & 0.36% tungsten from 60m and; 3m @ 0.92% tin from 69m and; 3m @ 0.25% tin from 96m and; 1m @ 0.43% tin from 104m and; 2m @ 1.54% tin from 114m and; 1m @ 0.24% tin from 140m and; 1m @ 0.93% tin from 143m.
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