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Tumi Resources Limited - Tumi confirms down-plunge extension of the historic Sala silver mine mineralization, Bergslagen, Sweden
TSXV - TM Frankfurt - TUY Pink Sheets - TUMIF VANCOUVER, May 8, 2012 /CNW/ - Tumi Res...
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\nTSXV - TMFrankfurt - TUY\nPink Sheets - TUMIF\n\n\nVANCOUVER, May 8, 2012 /CNW/ - Tumi Resources Limited (the \"Company\") (TSXV:TM) (Pink Sheets:TUMIF)\n (Frankfurt:TUY). Mr. David Henstridge, President, announces that the results from this\n year's drilling program at the Company's 100% owned Sala project,\n located in the Bergslagen District of Sweden, have now been received.\n\n\nSala, now a historical mine site, was once Europe's largest silver\n producer and was in continuous production between the late 15'th\n century and 1908. Additional mining occurred at Sala during 1948-52 and\n between 1945 and 1962 in the adjacent Bronas mine.  Historical records\n indicate that >200 million ozs of silver were recovered from Sala with\n grades as high as 7,000 g/t (Tegengren, 1924). The sulphide\n mineralization is hosted in dolomitic marble and occurs dominantly as\n silver associated with galena and to a lesser extent as complex\n antimonides, sulphosalts and native silver. The host rocks have been\n folded and faulted with the underlying metamorphosed felsic volcanics\n and pyroclastics. The series of shafts along the Sala mineralized\n trend, more or less, in a north-south direction, apparently controlled\n by fold structures plunging gently to the north. Longitudinal sections\n indicate that the mineralized zone at Sala (as indicated by mined-out\n workings) also plunges gently to the north.\n\n\nThe Sala mine was closed in 1909 following a year-long strike when the\n water in the mine rose to the mine's 160 meter level. Although previous\n owners drilled some short holes on the upper levels and mined some zinc\n at the southern end, no modern exploration has been undertaken to test\n for possible extensions of this mineralization down-plunge to the\n north. It should be noted that neither the work being undertaken by\n Tumi nor any potential future mining activities will affect any of the\n activities of the tourist mine. Tumi has received permission and is\n drilling from the underground workings of the adjacent Tistbrottet\n dolomite mine which puts the drill site within 250 meters of the\n possible down-plunge extension of the Sala mineralization.\n\n\nThe first drill hole, SAA12-009, intersected a six metre wide zone of\n mineralized dolomite containing pyrite, pyrrhotite, sphalerite and\n galena. ...