The licence areas are generally flat with some broad low ridges of silcrete or ferruginous rock formations. Broad flood plains associated with the Murray Creek which runs through the licence area are also a feature.

The project area lies within the north-central portion of the Paleoproterozoic Arunta Province. The stratigraphy of the Arunta province comprises relics of 2500 Ma Archaean basement overlain by >1800 Ma Palaeoproterozoic, turbiditic sequences of greywacke, quartz, sandstone, siltstone and shale along with mafic rocks and their highgrade metamorphic equivalents. The Arunta also has minor calc-silicates and meta-felsic volcanic units. During the Barramundi Orogeny, the sedimentary units were intruded by mafic rocks which have been deformed and in places metamorphosed to amphibolite facies. During the closing stages of the Barramundi Orogeny (~1830 Ma) granite plutons intruded rocks of the Arunta Province.

In the tenement area, rocks of the Palaeoproterozoic Lower Hatches Group/ Reynolds Range Group occur, comprising undifferentiated granite/granite gneiss and gabbro-dolerite. Neoproterozoic to Palaeozoic rocks of the Georgina Basin cover the Palaeoprotoeozoic rocks in the south to southeast. Cainozoic sediments also cover parts of the tenements. Quaternary and Tertiary cover sequences of variable depth (ranging from a few metres to in excess of 100m) conceal the basement rocks. Mafic/ ultramafic units have been recorded from previous drilling w ........

The mining method will be an open pit with conventional drill and blast and load and haul with excavators and large mining equipment. Ore and waste will be trucked to the concentrator and waste dump respectively.

The open pit strip ratio is 1.1:1 (waste: ore). The large size of the orebody (ca. 2000m x 350m x 100m) and gradual grade boundaries allows a low 2% dilution factor to be applied, with ore loss being correspondingly low.

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