- Sampling identified central 3.4 km high-grade corridor
- Initial 2,500m program set to test corridor
- Initial ten holes currently planned across five section lines
- Drilling expected to take approximately three to four weeks
Somerset Minerals (ASX:SMM) is set to test a 3.4km target with its maiden reverse circulation (RC) drilling program at the Talisker copper target, within the Coppermine project in Canada.
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The 2,500m program will initially test a central 3.4 km strike of the 17 km Talisker anomaly, after preliminary pXRF results from a recently completed infill soil geochemical program identified the high-grade copper corridor.
MD, Chris Hansen, said an initial ten holes have been planned across five highly anomalous zones within the corridor, representing the first drill testing of the Talisker fault.
“Drilling at Talisker is a potentially defining moment for Somerset — and it’s been six months in the making,” he said.
“Since late last year we’ve systematically built this target through regional geochemical and geophysical surveys, then sharpened it with infill geochemistry. Now, for the first time ever, a drill bit is testing the Talisker fault – a 17 km corridor where geophysics, geochemistry and copper mapped at surface all line up, just four km from White Cliff Minerals’ Danvers deposit and on a similar regional structure.
“The infill soil program did exactly what we designed it to do. Preliminary pXRF results lit up a high-grade copper corridor over a central 3.4 km of strike, which we will systematically test by drilling five section lines, with each target backed by multiple independent datasets.
“With the rig now spinning on the first of those initial 10 holes, permits in place for up to 100 holes, and surface assays still to come, Somerset is entering a potentially transformational period. We expect a steady flow of news in the weeks ahead.”
Drilling is expected to take approximately three to four weeks to complete, with samples to be submitted to ALS Laboratories in Yellowknife on a rolling basis.
Talisker is the company’s highest-priority regional target, comprising a very large 17 km long coincident geochemical and geophysical anomaly, supported by mapped copper mineralisation at surface.
The corridor was originally defined by a cluster of geochemically anomalous glacial till samples coincident with a major north–south striking fault zone, with a geophysical signature interpreted to reflect intense hydrothermal alteration over widths of up to 300 m along the fault.
Four of the ten samples returning 1,000 parts per million (ppm) copper from the company’s 2025 first-pass regional till survey occur within the corridor, including a peak value of 3,790 ppm copper.
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