Mt Lucy
ML 20488
Mt Lucy is located approximately 5km west of Almaden, 130km west-southwest of Cairns, Queensland. Mt Lucy is a hill of ironstone rising approximately 100m above the plain and approximately 300m long.
To the southeast the ironstone ends abruptly, but to the northwest it can be traced for several hundred metres down the flank of a ridge and across the flats in a series of rubbly sub-crops to another low ironstone outcrop that lies alongside the highway.
InterMet is targeting a potential high-grade magnetite deposit up to 10Mt (based on a thickness of 80m) and will scope the possibility of mining the hill, adding to other potential iron resources at Paddy (ML 3945) and Mt Ruby (MLA 20414). Further drilling to define the depth and the continuation of the mineralisation is planned.
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Magnetite outcropping at Mt Lucy.
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Mt Lucy was mined in the early 1900’s providing iron to the smelter at Chillagoe, 25km to the north-northwest though has not received any serious exploration as an iron ore prospect. The iron at Mt Lucy is a classic magnetite skarn produced by the intrusion of granite into limestone producing a concentration of magnetite with accessory garnet.
Granite can be observed in contact with the iron within the main outcrop. A secondary low hill of ironstone located approximately 600m to the southwest provides encouraging signs that the ironstone body forms is continuous below the current land surface.
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Magnetite-granite contact at Mt Lucy.
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