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Tumi Resources Stakes the Hallefors Silver Prospect, Bergslagen District, Sweden
Tumi Resources Stakes the Hallefors Silver Prospect, Bergslagen District, Sweden.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\n\nTSXv - TM\nFrankfurt - TUY\nOTCBB - TUMIF\n\nVANCOUVER, Jan. 18 /CNW/ - Tumi Resources Limited (the \"Company\") \n(TSXv-TM; OTCBB - TUMIF; Frankfurt - TUY). Mr. David Henstridge, President, is\npleased to announce the acquisition, through staking, of the Hallefors Silver\nproperty, comprising 794 hectares and covering the historic Hallefors Silver\nMines within the Bergslagen District of south-central Sweden. Historically,\nthe Hallefors area produced in excess of 480,000 ozs of silver ranking it the\nsecond largest silver producer in Sweden behind the Sala mine which is also\nlocated in the Bergslagen District and under exploration licence to the\nCompany.\nThe Bergslagen district lies immediately to the north-west of Stockholm\nand covers an area of approximately 200 kms east-west by 150 kms north-south.\nThe district is underlain by volcanics and sediments which are more than 2\nbillion years old. The region has undergone several phases of folding and has\nbeen intruded by at least two generations of granitoids. Bergslagen is a\nhighly mineralized district and one of the most important ore districts in\nSweden, containing deposits of iron, manganese, base-metal and silver\nsulphides.\nThe Hallefors Silver Mines are located about 8 km north of Hallefors\ntownship and 210 km west north-west of Stockholm, Sweden, in the westernmost\npart of the Bergslagen mineral district.\nSilver-lead-zinc mineralization occurs over a 2.5 km long by 0.5 km wide\narea consisting of two principal belts: 1) the middle and western mines are\nhosted by a potassium-rich rhyolitic volcanic rock in which the mineralization\noccurs in cross-cutting fissure veins, and; 2) the eastern mines where\nmineralization is hosted by manganese and iron-rich carbonate beds that\ncontain disseminated magnetite, pyrrhotite and other sulphide minerals. The\neastern mines may in part be of skarn origin. Researchers have interpreted the\noverall ore formation to have a syngenetic exhalative-sedimentary origin and\nthat the ore is distal to conduits. Hallefors is an example of stratabound \nPb-Zn-Ag mineralization associated with manganiferous iron ores that occur in\ncarbonate beds intercalated in extremely potassium-rich acid metavolcanic\nrocks.\nThe eastern mine consists of a complex of underground and surface\nworkings over about 150m long and 20 - 30m wi...