Somerset Minerals hits up to 46.3% copper and 214 g/t silver at Talker and Skye

• Assay results received for 86 surface rock chip samples across five prospects
• At Talisker high-grade copper mineralisation confirmed over more than 12km of strike
• High-grade copper and silver from maiden rock chip sampling at Skye target
• Maiden RC drilling at Talisker well advanced

Somerset Minerals (ASX:SMM) has received high-grade assay results from the recently completed surface rock chip sampling program across its flagship Coppermine project in Canada.

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A total of 86 rock chip samples were submitted for analysis, collected from the Talisker district, and Jons Pit, Skye, Danvers North and Danvers South prospects.

The results have confirmed widespread high-grade copper mineralisation, with 47 samples returning grades above one per cent copper and 19 samples above 10% copper, up to peaks of 46.3% copper at Skye and 36.4% copper and 214 grams per tonne (g/t) silver at Talisker.

MD, Chris Hansen, said silver credits are a consistent feature of the results, with 17 samples returning grades above 30 g/t silver.

“These assay results serve to support what our field teams observed at surface. To return grades of up to 36.4% copper and 214 g/t silver at Talisker, across a corridor that has never been drill tested until now, underscores the prospectivity of the region, and validates the multidisciplinary targeting approach that brought us here: geophysics, till geochemistry, detailed mapping, and now laboratory- confirmed high-grade copper at surface,” Mr Hansen said.

“Just as significant is Skye, where our first-ever rock chip samples from this Priority-1 target include 46.3% copper as massive bornite. Skye is a highly convincing new target which has opened up a new search space within our licence area, and potentially represents an additional style of mineralisation to the basalt-hosted fault systems we typically see at Talisker, Jura and Danvers, due to the presence of sediments and bornite. This speaks to the genuinely district-scale prospectivity of our landholding.

“Concurrently, our maiden RC drill program at Talisker is well advanced, with 1,900 metres now completed across 12 holes. We are drilling with the benefit of these surface results in hand, and we will provide a separate announcement on the progress of drilling over the coming days, with first rush assays expected in the next two weeks.”

Talisker is the company’s highest-priority regional target, comprising a very large 17 km long coincident geochemical and geophysical anomaly, now supported by laboratory-confirmed copper mineralisation at surface.

Importantly, the Talisker corridor sits only four km from White Cliff Minerals’ (ASX:WCN) Danvers copper deposit.

SMM is steady at 0.9¢. Mkt cap $12.40M.

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