NICKEL and gold explorer Talon Resources NL said it was focusing a number of joint venture projects on Western Australia’s Yilgarn Shield. Talon chairman John Horan said the company would begin drilling its Wallbrook Hill, Trough Well and Jubilee prospects while Joint venture partner Minerals Pty Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mining Projects Investors, and was concentrating on the Red Dam nickel discovery with Finnish miner Outokumpu Oy. Talon said its most advanced gold project was at Wallbrook Hill, 160 kilometres north-east of Kalgoolie, with work to begin in late June, aimed at expanding the existing resource and identifying further mineralisation.