Reward Project, Australia
Project Description
The Reward zinc-lead project is located 20km south of the McArthur River (HYC) zinc-lead mine in the Northern Territory. It is a sedimentary hosted (SEDEX) zinc-lead project with direct analogies to the McArthur River deposit (current resource 157 Mt @ 11.3% Zn, 4.9% Pb, 49 g/t Ag; Xstrata Annual Report 2006).
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Stratiform mineralisation (hosted by the HYC Pyritic Shale Member of the Barney Creek Formation), eg. the HYC deposit, and the W-Fold, Emu Plains, Berjaya, Mitchell Yard, Myrtle and Barney Creek prospects.
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Stratabound mineralisation (epigenetic breccia and open space infill within dolostones, with MVT affinities), eg. the Cooley I, II, III, Ridge I, II, Cooks, Cox, Squib, Turnbull, and Reward deposits, and the Bald Hills, Barneys, and Buffalo Lagoon prospects.
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Reward Project Location