Ann Base Metals Project
ML 20424
The Ann Base Metals Project (ML 20424) is located approximately 10 km north of the mining centre of Mount Garnet, 110km from Cairns, Queensland.
The Ann mining lease covers an outcrop of massive sulphides (zinc, lead and silver) along the banks of a creek. Approximately 300m from this massive sulphide outcrop is an old copper working, the Brilliant Shaft. The shaft and the mineralisation in the creek is linked by a low ridge of brecciated and quartz veined quartzite and conglomerate with zones of malachite.
The massive sulphide layer within the creek is approximately 1 m thick, but occurs at the base of the outcrop at creek level, so the vertical thickness is unknown. InterMet believes the sulphide layer extends to depth.
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Massive sulphide boulder in the creek bed at the Ann prospect.
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Rocks above the massive sulphide layer also contain sulphides though in reduced amounts, and gossanous material contains boxwork structures which is evidence that it once also contained sulphides.
The mineralised outcrop is approximately 50 m in length but the vertical and lateral extent is currently unknown and needs to be defined by geophysical methods (IP or EM) and drilling.
InterMet believes that if the mineralisation within the creek continues with depth and along strike to the Brilliant pit, it could represent a significant deposit, which is ideally located approximately 10 km north of the Kagara Zinc Mine and processing plant at Mount Garnet. |
