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Location: 57 km E from Lienster, Western Australia, Australia
Suite 4, Level 3, South Shore Centre85 South Perth Esplanade, PO Box 876, South Perth WA 6951PerthWestern Australia, Australia6151
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The Darlot mine is operated through Red 5’s 100%-owned subsidiary company, Darlot Mining Company Pty Ltd.
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Darlot lies at the southern end of the south-southeast trending Yandal Greenstone Belt, a deformed and metamorphosed late Archaean volcano-sedimentary succession of which the eastern and western contacts are fault bound, characterised by strong deformation, metamorphism to lower amphibolite facies and characterised by interweaving of granite and greenstone rock units.The mine sequence dips 30° to 50° northeast along the southwestern limb or a 3 km wavelength, open, north-northwest plunging syncline. This bimodal volcano-sedimentary succession is intruded by pre-deformational differentiated Mount Pickering dolerite sills and by several late-tectonic intrusions.Gold mineralisation is associated with quartz veins and alteration haloes controlled by major structures or secondary splays and cross-linking structures. The Darlot deposit has been differentiated into two separate entities: the Darlot lodes and Centenary orebody. The Centenary orebody is located some 1.2 km east of the Darlot open pit and down dip from the Darlot lode extensions.In the Darlot lodes, gold mineralisation occurs within and around quartz laminar and sheeted quartz veins in local dilation zones along the Darlot Thrust, in addition to subhorizontal extensional quartz veins in felsic volcanic and intrusive rocks above the thrust.The Centenary orebody has been defined from approximately 150 m to 700 m below surface. Gold mineralisation occurs within subhorizontal to 20° west dipping stacked quartz veins bound to the west by the Oval Fault and to the east by the Lords Fault.Several mineralisation styles are evident at Darlot and include: - Centenary (bulk): sheeted flat extension quartz veining (dipping 10° west) with sericite - ankerite-pyrite-gold-chlorite alteration which represents approximately 70% of the Centenary orebody - Walters (Quartz reef): forms within reverse faults as laminated quartz veins (dips 45° west) locally brecciated with crack-seal texture and ranging from 0.5 to 5 m in width - Lords South Flats (flat): flat lying quartz breccia veining; sericite/silica alteration proximal to veining within magnetic dolerites and high pyrite percentage (mainly disseminated) - Lords South Main (hanging wall/footwall halo): mineralisation hosted in felsic rock types; Lords fault structure (laminated quartz veins) runs through the area, locally brecciated crack-seal textures, with the alteration halo mainly restricted to the footwall; haematite alteration with stockwork and high coarse pyrite percentages - Oval Flats (flat): flat lying extensional veining, albite+ haematite alteration proximately to veining within magnetic dolerite and felsic; high pyrite percentage (mainly disseminated). - Oval Main (hanging wall/footwall halo): mineralisation hosted in magnetic dolerite + intruded felsic rock types in Oval Fault footwall and hanging wall; Oval Fault sheared quartz and carbonate veins locally brecciated crack-seal textures, with the alteration halo mainly restricted to the hanging wall; albite + haematite alteration with extensional veining and disseminated pyrite.
