Talisker Resources – Underground Lateral Development On The Alhambra Vein As The Mustang Mine Is Moving Towards Near-term Production
Terry Harbort, President and CEO of Talisker Resources (TSX: TSK) (OTCQX:TSKFF), joins me to outline the lateral development on the Alhambra Vein on the 1105 level at the Bralorne Gold Project in British Columbia. We discuss the development work underway on the pathway to near-term gold production at the Mustang Mine over the next few months.
We review that main area of focus for the development declines and work up until this point in time has been in the unmined area, between the historically mined Bralorne and King mines, now referred to as the Mustang Mine. To date, a total of 107.1 metres of 3X3 metre development has been completed at the Mustang Mine including 2.2 metres in the mineralized Alhambra Vein. Vein access is currently underway on four levels with 11.4 metres already completed on the 1060 level, 34 metres completed on the 1075 level, 26.4 metres completed on the 1105 level and 9.3 metres completed on the 1120 level. Additional development will begin shortly on the 1090 level to provide a fifth level of access to mineralized material. Talisker expects to be extracting material from its first stope towards the end of May or early June.
We shift over to the remaining work there to be completed, a rough idea of the sustaining capital that will be needed to put the Mustang Mine into production imminently and start ramping up the throughput from 100 tonnes per day (tpd) in the next couple months, to 175 tpd after that, and then up to 250 tpd by year-end. Moving into next year it is anticipated that throughput can rise up to 500 tpd and then eventually 750 tpd in the years thereafter. That will involve pulling in material from the unmined areas between the historic Bralorne and Pioneer mines as a second eventual area of focus.
In addition to being amenable to toll mining at nearby processing centers with spare capacity, there have been studies underway looking at upgrading the ore on site using ore-sorting technology, so that higher-grade material, with less associated waste would make it more economical to be shipped to additional processing centers. An economic study is slated for later this year that will explore some of these concepts in more detail. Wrapping up we discuss the health of their treasury, the strength of the management and operational teams, and the key milestones and news on tap for the balance of this year.
If you have any follow up questions for Terry then please email me at Shad@kereport.com.
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