| 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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