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Exploration for porphyry-style copper mineralisation near Llandeloy

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BOREHOLE 4 Registration Number SM 82NE/6<br />

Grid Reference SM 8566 2874<br />

Height above O.D. 123.7 m<br />

Casing to 8.23 m<br />

Recent<br />

Description of strata<br />

SOIL:<br />

Pleistocene<br />

CLAY WITH PEBBLES:<br />

FELDSPAR SAND AND CLAY: deeply weathered,<br />

regular alternation of sand 1-2.5 cm, clay 0.3-1.0 cm<br />

to 2.23; irregular below<br />

GRAVEL: heterolithic<br />

FELDSPAR SAND AND CLAY: regular bedding as<br />

above. Some beds gravel with diorite pebbles only.<br />

Thick clay beds below 7.77<br />

MICRODIORITE: medium grained, feldspathic with<br />

sparse phenocrysts, feldspar and amphibole up to 5 mm.<br />

Deeply weathered to 15.24. Quartz veins up to 2 cm<br />

at intervals with some adjacent silicification. Chlorite<br />

veinlets between 22.00-24.00; epidote veinlets mainly<br />

below 22.00; some epidotisation 17.30, 22.00. Pyrite<br />

disseminated and in fractures moderately abundant<br />

11.36-11.50, minor below, but in veins with gangue<br />

at intervals. Chalcopyrite below 22.00<br />

MICRODIORITE: as above. Sharp, irregular intrusive<br />

contact 30" at top. Porphyritic marginal phase to<br />

25.59. Carbonate alteration, some epidote veinlets.<br />

Quartz veins with pyrite and chalcopyrite 25.75-25.85.<br />

Also disseminated pyrite<br />

MICRODIORITE: as above. Sharp upper contact 45O,<br />

porphyritic to 26.40. Patchy texture below 27.31,<br />

mainly due to recrystallization. Sparse veining.<br />

Pyrite rare disseminated, in veinlets with epidote<br />

27.31-27.85. Chalcopyrite at 27.84<br />

MICRODIORITE, porphyritic: fine-medium grained,<br />

greyish-green with phenocrysts feldspar 2 mm,<br />

hornblende 5 mm. Patchy carbonate alteration.<br />

Xenoliths up to 6 cm at 29.64, 31.78. Pyrite sparsely<br />

disseminated; com monly in veins with quartz,<br />

feldspar, chlorite, epidote to 32.80 only<br />

QU ARTZ-DIORITE: coarse-grained, feidspathic;<br />

sparsely porphyritic with plagioclase to 2 mm,<br />

hornblende to 5 mm increasing in proportion downwards.<br />

Sharp irregular upper contact with upward<br />

penetrating flames. Basic xenoliths at intervals;<br />

pegmatitic patch 34.15. Quartz veins rare, Epidote,<br />

chlorite, quartz, carbonate, feldspar veins more<br />

common; local epidotisation. Patchy recrystallization<br />

and textural variation. Pyrite in veinlets and<br />

disseminated only at 34.65, 35.90, 37.85-38.02<br />

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