Queensland Minerals |
A Summary of Major Mineral Resources, Mines and Projects, 2nd Edition |
Host Rock/Cover Sequences |
Structural Unit |
Formation Name/Age |
Surprise Creek Formation / PALAEOPROTEROZOIC to |
PALAEOPROTEROZOIC |
Deposit Model |
SUPERGENE |
ENRICHED |
Mineralisation Age |
Comments |
This deposit will be mined as a satellite operation to the central treatment plant at Mount Cuthbert. The company aims to move the |
project to production by 2006. |
Mineralisation at Mount Watson is contained within the Surprise Creek Formation and is structurally controlled occurring along a |
prominent north-west fault zone in sheared and altered siltstone and carbonaceous slate. |
The mineralisation is located at or near the contact between the siltstone and slate with quartzite. The dip of this mineralisation is |
north-east. |
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