The Talbot Property is accessible by road from southern Manitoba via Provincial Highway 10 to the Town of The Pas, then via Highway 287 and Provincial Road 384 to near the Community of Moose Lake, where active forestry roads provide access to the Talbot Deposit area. 

Geology

The Talbot Deposit is hosted in Paleoproterozoic rocks of the Trans-Hudson Orogen (THO). At Talbot, the THO is unconformably overlain by an approximate 100 metre (m) thick sequence of flat-lying Phanerozoic carbonates of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. THO rocks outcrop 60 kilometres (km) to the north, where they host the VMS deposits of the Flin Flon-Snow Lake greenstone belt. 

Exploration activities on the Talbot Property have been focused on two main areas: the Talbot Deposit itself, which is the primary subject of this Updated Mineral Resource Estimate, and the North Target. 

The Talbot Deposit mineralization consists of a network of stringers to semi-massive and massive sulphides consisting of chalcopyrite, sphalerite, pyrite and pyrrhotite. Drilling has intersected  mineralization over a strike length of approximately 700 m and to a vertical depth from surface to approximately 800 m and averages 5.1 m in true thickness. The deposit remains open for expansion with multiple untested conductive plates.

Mineral Resource Estimate

On April 14, 2020 the Company filed an updated N.I. 43-101 Mineral Resource Estimate (see PR here), as summarized in the table below.  The technical report can be found below, as well as on the Company's SEDAR profile.

Refer to Global Resource Table for additional disclosures

Metallurgy

As per the February 28, 2020 press release, bench scale metallurgical testing completed under the direction of Jake Lang at Base Metallurgical Laboratories in Kamloops, BC demonstrated the potential to produce separate, market-quality concentrates of copper and zinc. The test program generated sequential copper and zinc flotation concentrates from a relatively coarse primary grind of approximately P80 150 microns. Rougher concentrates were re-ground at P80 20-30 microns. The flowsheet tested does not require the use of cyanide to separate zinc from copper. Testing was completed on overall composites indicative of the feed grade anticipated for the Talbot Deposit

Joint Venture with Hudbay Minerals Inc

Rockcliff has a 49% interest in the Talbot property, with Hudbay Minerals, as operator, owning the other 51%. 

• Related News
  • August 25, 2020

    Hudbay Minerals Acquires 51% Ownership Interest in Talbot Project and Becomes Operator
  • April 14, 2020

    Rockcliff Files Updated Talbot Deposit Mineral Resource Estimate - 2.19Mt Indicated at 4.40% Copper Equivalent and 2.44Mt Inferred at 2.98% Copper Equivalent
  • February 27, 2020

    Rockcliff Updates Talbot Deposit to 2.19M Indicated Tonnes at 4.44% Copper Equivalent 2.44M Inferred Tonnes at 2.98% Copper Equivalent
  • January 14, 2020

    Rockcliff to Complete 70,000 Metre Drill Program on Copper Properties in 2020
  • December 18, 2019

    Rockcliff Completes 51% Earn-in on Talbot Property, Reports Additional High-Grade Drill Results Including 10.15% CuEq Across 3.46 Metres
  • November 13, 2019

    Rockcliff Announces High Grade Assays at Talbot Property 6.0% CuEq Across 18.33 Metres Including 10.4% CuEq Across 4.8 Metres
  • October 24, 2019

    Rockcliff Provides Drill Program Update at Snow Lake
• Technical Reports
  • View April 14, 2020: Rockcliff Files Updated Talbot Deposit Mineral Resource Estimate (NI 43-101)