Timing of events
Au mineralization at Telfer:
Monazite in gold reef U–Pb = c. 652 Ma
Cu mineralization at Nifty: Vein apatite
(Sm–Nd and U–Pb) = 822–791 Ma
U mineralization at Kintyre:
Uraninite U–Pb = c. 840 Ma
c. 1180 Ma Kalyukuyarra Suite
1310–1286 Ma Camel Suite
c. 1500 Ma Kayilirra Suite
1590–1550 Ma Krackatinny Supersuite
1800–1760 Ma Kalkan Supersuite
Government of Western Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum
Government of Western Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum
Crustal architecture
Crustal architecture - new data
• Collaboration with Geoscience Australia, Macquarie
University and Chinese Academy of Sciences
– deep crustal seismic lines (Canning Coastal and Kidson Sub-basin)
– high-density passive seismic traverse along the Canning Coastal
• To better define the nature of the basement and the major
crustal boundaries
– integrate active and passive seismic, geochronology, geochemistry,
and isotopic mapping
Government of Western Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum
Government of Western Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum
Seismic Surveys
• 2014 Canning Coastal survey
– 705 km @ 20 sec data
– Pilbara margin to Lamboo
Province in the Kimberley
– sub-Canning Basin structure
poorly resolved
• 2018 Kidson Sub-basin survey
– 872 km @ 20 sec data
– central Pilbara to North
Australian Craton
Government of Western Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum
Government of Western Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum
Kidson Sub-basin survey
W E
Pilbara
Craton Yeneena Basin Punmu Seismic Province
NAC
100km
Government of Western Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum
Government of Western Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum
Seismic Surveys (Kidson Sub-basin)
W E
Pilbara Fortescue Basin Yeneena Basin Canning Basin
Nifty Telfer
Vines Fault Parallel Range Fault Triwhite Hills Fault
Punmu S.P.
18GA-KB1 Reworked – thinned Pilbara crust
Gingarrigan Creek Detachment
Government of Western Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum
Government of Western Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum
Canning Coastal passive seismic
• 58 broadband seismic stations
– 15 km spacing
– entire length of 14GA-CC1 and
14GA-CC2
– two year recording period
between Sept 2017 and Oct
2019
• Determine composition and
velocity structure of the crust
below the basin
Government of Western Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum
Government of Western Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum
Canning Coastal passive seismic
SW Fenton NE
Fault
Canning Basin
Pilbara Lamboo
Yeneena Basin Punmu S.P. Province
W E
18GA-KB1
Government of Western Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum
Government of Western Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum
Major crustal structures and isotope maps
• Statewide major crustal structures and
isotope maps were constructed for the
Accelerated Geoscience Program
– major crustal structures digitised from active
seismic lines, geophysical data and mapped
faults (in 3D)
– faults/shear zones that cut the full crustal
profile, are major splays of mantle-tapping
faults or separate geological terranes or
provinces
Government of Western Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum
Government of Western Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum
Major crustal structures and isotope maps
• Isotope maps used to
characterise lithospheric
architecture through time
– Sm–Nd whole rock from
felsic rocks
– Lu–Hf from zircon
• Parallel Range Fault
separates isotopically
distinct crust
– east – juvenile
– west – reworked Pilbara Sm–Nd Lu–Hf
Government of Western Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum
Government of Western Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum
Major crustal structures and isotope maps
• Four main tectonic units
– Pilbara Craton and its reworked margin (Rudall
Province)
– Yeneena Basin which overlies this extended margin
– North Australian Craton N.A.C
– Punmu Seismic Province Punmu S.P.
• Punmu Seismic Province Pilbara
Craton
– isotopically juvenile
– oceanic crust? Madura and
Coompana Provinces
Government of Western Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum
Government of Western Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum
Geochronology of basement beneath the
Canning Basin
Geochronology sampling
• Core and cutting of Canning Basin Munro 1 igneous basement
basement, mostly from deep petroleum
wells
– igneous rocks: U–Pb SHRIMP zircon dating
for igneous crystallization age
– metasedimentary rocks: U–Pb SHRIMP
detrital zircon dates for age spectra and max
depositional ages
• Insights into the extent of the Paterson
Orogen and Yeneena Basin under the
Canning Basin
Government of Western Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum
Government of Western Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum
Fenton Fault Derby Canegrass 1
Canning Basin basement
Broome
Halls Creek geochronology
Goldwyer 1
Thangoo 2
U–Pb zircon igneous
Parda 1 crystallization age
Samphire Acacia 2 U–Pb baddeleyite
Marsh 1
crystallization age (external)
Munro 1
U–Pb igneous crystallization
and detrital zircon ages
DDH T3
Marble Bar U–Pb detrital zircon ages
Frankenstein 1
Barnicarndy 1
Kidson Sub-basin
Telfer seismic line
Kunawarritji Wilson Cliffs 1
Punmu
Kiwirrkurra Canning Basin
Major tectonic elements over 1VD magnetic image
Fenton Fault Derby Canegrass 1 Metasedimentary rocks
Basement to SW Canning Basin, 5 GSWA
Broome samples (metamorphic rims not plotted)
Halls Creek
Goldwyer 1
Thangoo 2
Parda 1
Samphire Acacia 2
Marsh 1
Munro 1
DDH T3 3500 3000 2500 2000 1500 1000 500
Yeneena Basin, 13 GA and GSWA samples
Marble Bar
Frankenstein 1
Barnicarndy 1
Telfer
Kunawarritji Wilson Cliffs 1
Punmu
Kiwirrkurra
3500 3000 2500 2000 1500 1000 500
Major tectonic elements over 1VD magnetic image Age (Ma)
Fenton Fault Derby Canegrass 1 Igneous rocks
Broome
Halls Creek
Goldwyer 1 Goldwyer 1: Granite (cuttings)
Thangoo 2 Igneous age = 654 ± 3 Ma
Parda 1
Samphire Acacia 2
Marsh 1
Munro 1
DDH T3 DDH T3: Granite
Igneous age = 649 ± 5 Ma
Marble Bar
Frankenstein 1 Frankenstein 1: Amphibolite
Barnicarndy 1
(metagabbro intrusion)
Igneous age = 826 ± 5 Ma
Telfer
Kunawarritji Wilson Cliffs 1
Punmu
Kiwirrkurra Willouran LIP
Gairdner Dolerite 827 ± 6 Ma (SA)
Gairdner Dolerite 824 ± 4 Ma (WA)
Major tectonic elements over 1VD magnetic image
Fenton Fault Derby Canegrass 1 Igneous rocks
Broome
Halls Creek Parda 1: Pegmatite vein
Goldwyer 1 Igneous age = 537 ± 13 Ma
Thangoo 2
(Early Neoproterozoic inherited
zircons)
Parda 1
Samphire Acacia 2
Marsh 1 Samphire Marsh 1: Felsic igneous
Igneous age = 505 ± 4 Ma
Munro 1 (Early Neoproterozoic and
c. 653 Ma inherited zircons)
DDH T3
Munro 1: Granodiorite
Marble Bar U-Pb baddeleyite (in mafic
enclaves?)
Frankenstein 1 Igneous age = 512.5 ± 4.3 Ma
Barnicarndy 1 c. 670 Ma inherited zircons
(published in Jourdan et al.
Telfer 2014, Geology v. 42, no. 6)
Kunawarritji Wilson Cliffs 1
Punmu
Kalkarindji LIP
Kiwirrkurra
Antrim Plateau Volcs: 509.1 ± 2.2 Ma
Milliwindi Dolerite: 510.7 ± 0.6 Ma
Major tectonic elements over 1VD magnetic image Table Hill Volcanics: 510 ± 4 Ma
Tectonic implications
• Yeneena Basin and Paterson Orogen rocks likely widespread beneath
Canning Basin as far north as Fenton Fault
– as suggested by the Canning Coastal passive seismic survey
• Mafic intrusions c. 826 Ma in Frankenstein 1 may be most northern
extension of Willouran LIP
• Granitic intrusions of c. 650 Ma extend at least 300 km north of
outcrops, close to Fenton Fault
– potential for Telfer-like Au deposits elsewhere in the orogen
• Felsic igneous rocks of Cambrian age overlap with age and
distribution of the Kalkarindji LIP
Government of Western Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum
Government of Western Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum
Timing of Cu–Au mineralization at
Obelisk
Obelisk Cu–Au deposit
PND001 PND002 PND003 PND004 PND005
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Depth (m)
after Bath et al. (2017)
520
Government of Western Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum
Government of Western Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum
Early stage geological history
• Deposition followed by 520–590 C and 1.2–1.8 kb
(contact metamorphism?)
emplacement of mafic
dykes (c. 835 Ma?)
• Folding and low-pressure
contact metamorphism
(Miles Orogeny?)
Government of Western Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum
Government of Western Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum
Main-stage alteration and Cu–Au
Main-stage Cu–Au–W–Bi fluid (biotite-rich)
Government of Western Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum
Government of Western Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum
Pegmatite,Mo and secondary alteration
Late stage Cu–Mo fluid (chlorite-rich)
• Pegmatite/granite emplacement
– alteration and deposition of
651.6 ± 1.9 Ma
Re–Os date for Mo (c. 650 Ma) – Paterson
molybdenite, Orogeny?
University of Alberta
(in press) • Late folds, shears and faults
post 650–510 Ma
Government of Western Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum
Government of Western Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum
Synthesis and further work – timing of events
Paterson Orogeny O’Callaghans SSt
Telfer
Second stage
Cu–Mo
Miles Orogeny Nifty Main
stage Cu–
Au–W–Bi
Duke Gabbro
Kintyre
Government of Western Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum
Government of Western Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum
Summary
• Four main tectonic units
– Yeneena Basin which overlies the extended Pilbara
margin and the ‘exotic’ Punmu Seismic Province
• Deposition at 900–835 Ma
– mafic intrusions at c. 835 Ma
N.A.C
• Two stages of alteration/mineralization
Punmu S.P.
– Cu-dominant followed by
Pilbara
– Au-dominant (c. 650 Ma) Craton
– O’Callagans Supersuite
Government of Western Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum
Government of Western Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum
Tectonic setting 900–825 Ma (Cu)
Rodinia breakup (Miles Orogeny?)
Government of Western Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum
Government of Western Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum
Tectonic setting 630–530 Ma (Au)
Paterson Orogeny
Government of Western Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum
Government of Western Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum
Craton edge mineral system(s)
• Cu system in the modified craton margin domain
– rifting at c. 900 Ma, mafic intrusions and sediment-
hosted mineralization at c. 835 Ma?
• Au (± Cu) system in the juvenile ‘accreted’
domain
– extended rifting? or basin inversion? Punmu S.P
– granite generation and emplacement Oceanic
Lithospheric
– Intrusion-related Au mineralization c. 650 Ma Mantle
Punmu S.P
18GA-KB1
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Government of Western Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum
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Finding the copper the world needs for a low-carbon future
The Cayley Lode Discovery – A New Style of
Mineralisation for Australia
NewGen Gold Conference – November 2021
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A Modern Australian Copper-Gold Growth Company
● First-mover position – largest and most strategic tenement holding
in the Stavely Volcanic Belt, western Victoria
● A committed explorer – focused on making transformational mineral
discoveries since $6m IPO in 2014
● Discovery breakthrough – outstanding shallow high-grade copper-
gold-silver discovery (September 2019), the Cayley Lode
● Resource drill-out underway – targeting maiden JORC Resource
later this year
● New style of mineralisation – Magma/Butte copper lode-style
system, never before seen in Australia
● Multiple discovery opportunities – potential to become a new
copper province as additional mineralised positions and regional
targets are tested
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The Cayley Lode Discovery
How did Stavely Minerals get from here,
SNDD001 drilled by Beaconsfield Gold – April 2008
to here?
SMD050 drilled by Stavely Minerals – September 2019
32m at 5.88% copper, 1.00g/t gold and 58g/t silver, from
62m drill depth, including:
12m at 14.3% copper, 2.26g/t gold and 145g/t silver
from 82m, including:
2m at 40% copper, 3.00g/t gold and 517g/t silver
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The Cayley Lode Discovery – Exploration History
Early Exploration
● Stream sediment copper anomalies identified by WMC in
1970’s
● 1975-1982 - Discovered as a copper prospect by Pennzoil
following up the stream sediment anomaly and finds small
pile of malachite-stained gossanous float in farmers
paddock assaying 2.9% Cu – Thursday’s Gossan
● Did geology mapping, soil surveys, RAB drilling, regional
IP, aeromagnetics, ground magnetics, 15 x diamond drill
holes – all <180m depth
● Intersected secondary chalcocite in massive pyrite in a
fault zone
● Interpreted as ‘hydrothermal, probably emanating from
an intrusive quartz feldspar porphyry’
Stavely Minerals geologists Hamish Forgan and Stephen Johnson with
large float boulders of Thursday’s Gossan
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The Cayley Lode Discovery – Exploration History
Early Exploration
● 1984-1987 CRA Exploration
● Looking for Hemlo-style disseminated gold / platinum
mineralisation
● 1991-1995 North Limited
● 436 stream sediment samples, Flew 2,600 line km QuestEM,
drilled 10 x RC/DDH drill holes
● Best result 229m at 0.22% copper in VICT1D2
● 1995-1997 CRA / Rio Tinto JV into North Limited tenure
● Data review, aircore drilling, reprocessed aeromag,
radiometric and EM data, identified 41 mag, 6 radiometric
and 28 EM anomalies followed up with aircore drilling
● Drilled 3 x 300m diamond drill holes
● Best result 27.7m at 0.24% copper from 38.3m depth
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The Cayley Lode Discovery – Exploration History
Early Exploration
● June 1997, last tenement dropped
● North Limited former Victoria Exploration Manager, Peter
Legge picks up Thursday’s Gossan on application on 9 Feb
2001 for new EL4556 granted to New Challenge Resources
● 2001-2004 Newcrest Operations Limited in Joint Venture
with New Challenge Resources
● Focused almost exclusively on Thursday’s Gossan
● Data compilation, 631 soil samples, 90 aircore drill holes,
10 diamond drill holes (plus 1 diamond drill hole in the
Wickliffe copper prospect)
● Best result 32m at 0.73% copper and 0.41g/t gold from 22m
including 8m at 2.4% copper and 1.05g/t gold in VSTD001 –
Former North Limited Victoria Exploration Manager Peter Legge (centre)
viewing Thursday’s Gossan drill core in 2003
believed to be the NW extension of the Cayley Lode
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The Cayley Lode Discovery – Exploration History
Early Exploration
● 2008-2013 BCD Resources (formerly Beaconsfield Gold
NL) – initially by way of earn-in, then acquisition
● Drilled 158 vertical aircore holes to define the shallow chalcocite
blanket – some with gold and silver assays, about 1/3 without – why?
● Employing an Avebury, Tasmania nickel sulphide model
● Drilled 32 RC drill holes
● Drilled 9 diamond drill holes
● Best result – SNDD001 (Stavely Nickel Diamond Drill 001)
● 7.7m at 4.1% copper, 1.1g/t gold and 77g/t silver from 95m, and
● 9.5m at 2.93% copper, 0.45g/t gold and 42g/t silver from ~150m
● And other smaller intercepts
● Beaconsfield Gold NL had come out of administration as BCD
Resources after the mine disaster and needed cash to fund
development of a refractory gold project in Queensland
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The Cayley Lode Discovery
The Offer
● BCD Resources mandates PCF Capital to sell the Stavely
and Ararat Projects
● On review of the data, we were not overly excited about
the project -
● Had ~ 30 diamond drill holes between 150m to 400m
depth
● Best ‘porphyry’ intercept was North Limited’s drill hole
VICT1D2 with 229m at 0.22% copper and minor ‘spotty’
gold
● But did accept a site visit in January 2013 (the dust had
barely settled on the Integra Mining takeover!)
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The Cayley Lode Discovery
The Site Visit
● All North Limited and CRA / RTZ drill core was lost,
presumed taken to the tip
● Newcrest drill holes were available but most were at the
GSV core storage facility in Werribee SNDD001 – 95m
● But the upper portion of VSTD001, including the interval
of
● 32m at 0.73% copper and 0.41g/t gold from 22m including
8m at 2.4% copper and 1.05g/t gold – was not available as
it was likely a percussion pre-collar
● Crucially, BCD Resources drill hole SNDD001 was SNDD001 – 156m
available and the tale that drill core was telling about the
mineralising fluids was unexpected…
SNDD001 – 269m
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The Cayley Lode Discovery
The Site Visit – What We Saw:
● Oxidised and low pH fluid = enhanced metal carrying capacity
● Low-pH - hydrothermal fluids had dissociated and produced
H SO and HCl = higher up in the system
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● The metal was there, SNDD001 –
SNDD001 – 95m
● 7.7m at 4.14% copper, 1.08g/t gold and 77g/t silver from 94.7m
● 9.5m at 2.93% copper, 0.45g/t gold and 42g/t silver from
154.6m
● The conclusion was that:
● Thursday’s Gossan was a very large hydrothermal
mineralizing system SNDD001 – 156m
● Fluid composition was very favourable
● There was good metal in the system
● Likely driven by a fertile porphyry at depth
SNDD001 – 269m
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The Cayley Lode Discovery
The Site Visit
● Oxidised and low pH = great metal carrying capacity
● Low-pH, hydrothermal fluids had dissociated and produced
HS and HCl = higher up in the system
● The metal was there –
● 7.7m at 4.14% copper, 1.08g/t gold and 77g/t silver from
94.7m
● 9.5m at 2.93% copper, 0.45g/t gold and 42g/t silver from
154.6m
● The conclusion was that:
● Thursday’s Gossan was a very large hydrothermal
mineralising system
● Fluid composition was very favourable
● There was good metal in the system
Pre-IPO conceptual model included in 2014 prospectus
● Likely driven by a fertile porphyry at depth
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The Cayley Lode Discovery – Corroborating Information
Professor Tony Crawford, Codes presentation 2001
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The Cayley Lode Discovery – Corroborating Information
In 2010, AuScope
provided CSIRO-
developed HyLogger
machines to each State
Geological Survey.
11 diamond drill holes
from the Thursday’s
Gossan Prospect were
scanned.
Data from only 1 hole was
processed and reported.
An interval of pyrophyllite
was associated with the
~95m mineralised interval
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The Cayley Lode Discovery – Corroborating Information
The Corbett Report – June 2012
● Commissioned by the Geological Survey of Victoria
● Review of available exploration data and drill core
● “Inspection of available drill core has identified wall rock hosted hydrothermal alteration and Cu mineralisation typical
of the region overlying porphyry Cu-Au style intrusions.”
● “Other Cambrian volcanic rocks in Western Victoria should also be prospected for the presence of porphyry Cu-Au
mineralisation.”
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The Cayley Lode Discovery – The Down Side
But… Figure 22: Composite Policy and Mineral Potential
Yukon
Saskatchewan
Western Australia
Newfoundland and Labrador
Ontario
Botswana
Greenland
Manitoba
Sweden
Nunavut
Northern Territory
Queensland
Arizona
New Brunswick
Burkina Faso
Papua New Guinea
Brazil
Montana
Colorado
Poland
AR:Chubut
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
Nova Scotia
New South Wales
Mongolia
AR:Catamarca
Philippines
Indonesia
Zambia
New Zealand
Morocco
Madagascar
California
AR:Rio Negro
Namibia Adapted from The Fraser
Bulgaria
Kazakhstan Institute 2011-2012 survey
Niger
Kyrgystan of metal mining and
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#82 of 93 Victoria AR:Mendoza how exploration potential
Suriname
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Romania influence exploration
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The Cayley Lode Discovery
The Deal
● BCD Resources mandates PCF Capital to sell the Stavely and
Ararat Projects
● March 2013, Northern Platinum (later renamed Stavely
Minerals Limited) acquires the Stavely and Ararat Projects
privately for total consideration of $2.8m
● Conducted fieldwork, mapping, IP surveys, gravity survey in
the remainder of 2013
● Listed Stavely Minerals Limited on the ASX in May 2014 and
raised $6m to conduct deeper drilling
● Was the only successful Resources Sector IPO in 2014 – it
was a bleak period in the market at the time
● No institutional investors, all retail – ‘Mums and Dads’ and
‘Friends and Family’ – thankfully we had a following from
Integra Mining
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First-Mover Position in Victoria’s Stavely Arc
● Two cornerstone assets – 100%-owned Stavely and
Ararat Projects
● Picked-up EL6870 in Government tender and entered into
an Earn-in and JV with Navarre Minerals
● 1,461km ground position in Australia’s new exploration
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hot-spot of western Victoria (Kirkland Lake – Fosterville)
● Majority of exploration since 2014 focused on Thursday’s
Gossan, targeting a Tier-1, Cadia-style copper-gold
porphyry system
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Stavely Copper-Gold Project – Thursday’s Gossan
● Located in the Grampians / Stavely Zone
● Host sequence includes (probable) Late-Proterozoic
serpentinised ultramafic and Late-Cambrian turbidites,
tuffs, andesitic flows (hyaloclastite) and dolerite,
granodiorite, tonalite, diorite and dacite intrusions
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Stavely Copper-Gold Project – Thursday’s Gossan
● The Cambrian-age Stavely Volcanic Belt is exposed or
under shallow cover for about 30km south of the
Grampians
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Stavely Copper-Gold Project – Thursday’s Gossan
● Devonian
deformation of
Cambrian volcanic
belts
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