Kerry Harmais being Chairman is a major coup for Talisman, but...

Kerry Harmais being Chairman is a major coup for Talisman, but also to Lure Russ Gregory from Rio Tinto as exploration manager is another
positive for Talisman. For Russ to leave a blue-chip Rio Tinto and join Talisman he must believe in the potential of the upcoming drilling in NSW.


Former Rio and key Winu geologist turned Talisman exploration chief names NSW copper prospect his top pick.

The royalty stream cash on hand must have had something to do with Talisman being able to lure long-time Rio Tinto explorationist Russ Gregory to the company and its NSW hunt.

Gregory – he responds to either Russ or Gregory – was on the Rio team that drilled the first hole in to the Winu copper-gold discovery in the Paterson region of WA, and as might be suspected after a 14 year career at Rio, he is across all of the big-thinking and techniques required to make a hidden find like Winu.

He joined Talisman in August as exploration manager and was on hand at the AGM to give shareholders a run down on what to expect in 2022.

“Talisman holds some of the highest unexplored potential in the Canbelego-Mineral Hill volcanic belt,” Gregory said.

He volunteered that of the four project areas Talisman will focus on early next year, it is the Babinda copper prospect that is “perhaps the one I get most excited about”.

It is an area with known mineralisation at historic mines. “We’re dealing with a vein system that may light up under EM (planned for next year),” Gregory said.

In the meantime, a 1200m RC program will test the strike length of historic copper mineralisation and structures interpreted from geophysical lineaments.

Starting to get technical there. All that needs to be known though is that the ex-Rio man is excited.


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