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Location: 102 km SE from Port Hedland, Western Australia, Australia
234 Railway Parade, West LeedervillePerthWestern Australia, Australia6007
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The Sulphur Springs deposit has been classified as a volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) zinc-copper deposit located within the Sulphur Springs Group in the central east of the Archaean Pilbara Craton. The Sulphur Springs Group lies within a north–northeasterly trending litho-tectonic zone known as the Lalla Rookh-Western Shaw Structural Corridor (LWSC) that is bound by regional-scale faults.At the prospect scale, deposit lithologies and base metal mineralisation lies within the upper part of the Kangaroo Caves Formation. Local geology comprises polymictic breccia, chert, massive and stringer sulphide mineralisation, and felsic volcanic rocks of dacitic composition.At deposit scale, Sulphur Springs deposit lithologies intersected in drill holes comprise polymictic breccia, chert, massive and stringer sulphide mineralisation, and felsic volcanic rocks of dacitic composition. Massive pyrite and base metal mineralisation occurs over a 550 m strike length and 600 m down dip extent, and consists of an upper zone of massive sulphide overlying a disseminated/stringer (disseminated) zone. The upper contact of the massive sulphide unit is generally sharp, while the lower contact with the footwall disseminated zone is diffuse, with gradational metal tenor over several metres. There are indications of structural thickening in some mineralisation areas, which has obscured primary morphology and metal zonation.Massive sulphide horizon widths vary from less than 2 m at the periphery to greater than 50 m in the central part of the east and west lenses, whereas the lower disseminated stringer zone has more variable widths between 2 m and 20 m.The following major mineralisation styles and relationships are recognised:- Zinc-rich mineralisation is most prominent towards the hangingwall of the massive sulphide. Discrete zones of zinc occur towards the footwall of the massive sulphide and are interpreted to be structural emplacement. Lower tenor zinc-rich mineralisation is also defined within the footwall.- Copper-rich mineralisation is most prominent towards the footwall of the massive and upper disseminated area of sulphide mineralisation. - Hangingwall zinc mineralisation that lies 10–40 m above the massive sulphide is interpreted to be structural repetition of the massive sulphides. There is low marker breccia below the hangingwall mineralisation that is interpreted as localised thrust faulting.The principal zinc mineral is a pale brown–coloured, iron-poor sphalerite occurring as fine-grained disseminations throughout the sulphide mineralisation, but is preferentially concentrated with pyrite in massive sulphide lenses towards the hangingwall of the massive sulphides. Finegrained galena occurs as discrete, localised mineralisation.Sulphide mineralisation is offset by a steeply dipping north–south oriented fault (Main fault) which divides the mineralisation into the east and west lenses.Drill holes intersecting the Main fault area show significant intersections of breccia, which is interpreted to be growth fault breccia that is not mineralised.
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