Talisman Tungsten Property To Be Offered For Joint Venture

VANCOUVER – Adamera Minerals Corp. planning to offer joint venture for its Talisman Copper-Silver-Tungsten Property, located near Laurier, Washington, which includes the historic Talisman tungsten mine.  Talisman is not core to the Company’s business, although in light of increased demand for critical minerals the project warrants exploration. Adamera has conducted a mineral potential review of the property where grades of 0.35–1.0% WO₃ have been reported.
Work by Adamera on the Talisman Property has focused on the presence of high-grade copper and silver mineralization.  Limited attention has been paid to historically mined tungsten-bearing (scheelite) skarn zones in the Talisman Tungsten Mine.  The mine was a key tungsten producer during World War II, supplying strategic metal for U.S. military applications.  Specifically, scheelite occurs in garnet-epidote skarn along the contact between limestone and intrusive rocks.  Selected samples from the workings contain between 0.35 and 1.0 % WO₃, with local samples reported to assay higher. In addition to high-grade tungsten, smelter records from the Talisman Mine report high-grade copper and silver averaging 5% and 103 g/t, respectively. Specific zones also contained Pb up to 20% and Zn up to 11%.
“The Talisman Property is a critical minerals opportunity. Our work confirms the presence of a polymetallic mineralized system that contains tungsten, copper, silver, lead, zinc and bismuth. Such mineralization has been observed at shallow depths. Our work paid little attention to tungsten on a stand-alone basis.  What did attract our interest was a newly recognized copper-silver target. Exploration has demonstrated that the mineralizing system extends well beyond the old tungsten mine workings, with clear potential for the discovery of a much larger polymetallic deposit,” said Mark Kolebaba, President and CEO.