Telfers Long Lost "Big Sister" just for fun.10 Sep 2025 20:32
As was breifly touched on earlier jn another thread - For decades there was always talk of a "Telfers Sister" after Jean-Paul Telcoud (JPT) dicovered what was later called the Telfer Mine. JPT always maintained that he also found another huge Gold Deposit - calling it Tefers Sister.
JPT would take the secret to his grave in 2020, disgusted that he wasn't given the full recognition for the Telfer discovery, instead getting a small settlement for his trouble.
For decades the big Sister was searched for - many speculated that it might even have been Haveiron - others stated that Haveiron is too far from Telfer for JPT to have operated and moved his camp to back in the 70s and has few similarities to Telfer so didn't fit the bill.
Red Setter does however fit the bill - and the similarites to the Telfer discovery uncanny with Geological Parallels between Red Setter and Telfer mind boggling - as follows:
👉 Proximity & Structural Analogy - Red Setter is situated just 13–15 km southwest of the Telfer Gold Mine in the Paterson Province of Western Aus.
👉 Exploration data reveal a prominent dome-like (anticlinal) structure beneath Red Setter - strikingly similar to Telfer’s geological dome, which hosts its major stratiform to stratabound gold-copper reefs.
👉 Lithology & Mineralization Style - like a mirror image.
👉Both deposits are within carbonate-dominated units of the Paterson Orogen. Red Setter targets the Isdell Formation, overlain by ~80 m of Permian cover - & Telfer
👉Mineralisation at Red Setter includes quartz–carbonate sulphide vein stockworks with pyrite, chalcopyrite, bornite, pyrrhotite, and arsenopyrite—an assemblage that mirrors Telfer’s ore type.
👉Depth of mineralisation seen in drill 1 are similar to Telfer.
Furthermore, the mineralized zone spans a 3 km strike length, suggesting a major system potentially comparable to our neighbours (Telfer)
👉Expert Geophysics has independently interpreted Red Setter’s structure as a Telfer-style analogue, highlighting its resistive dome geometry and promising geophysical signatures. - wow, just wow.😀
The main difference to Telfer is the Price of Gold when first discovered (Telfer US$35 oz (1972)- Red Setter $3659 oz (today)) 😄😄😄😄
Could Red Setter Be “Telfer’s Sister” bloody right it could - it fits many of the criteria that JP spoke about
🇭🇲Proximity to Telfer,
🇭🇲Structural resemblance (domal anticline),
🇭🇲Geological context (carbonate-hosted, alteration), and
🇭🇲Scale of mineralization, appreciable Au–Cu grades hopefully even better than our noisy neighbours).
So Modern exploration doesn’t rely on anecdotal claims,
Jean Paul may have even been spinining a tale about a similar discovery (even though the science backs up his claims). What is important though is the "science" is making Red Setter look like it could be the next Telfer.
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