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Exploration for porphyry-style copper mineralisation near Llandeloy

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BOREHOLE 8 Registration Number SM 82NE/9<br />

Grid Reference SM 8514 2864<br />

Height above O.D. 115 m<br />

Casing to 12.5 m<br />

Description of strata<br />

OPEN HOLE<br />

Cambrian<br />

SILTSTONE: greenish-grey, thinly interlaminated with<br />

muddy fine sandstone in places; some laminated beds<br />

spotted mudstone. Bedding 70". Brecciated 9.53-10.24,<br />

10.88-11.37 and below with chlorite veinlets and<br />

pyrite disseminated, in quartz veinlets and fractures<br />

SANDSTONE: finewained, greenish-grey, massive<br />

SILTSTONE: as above. 5 cm breccia vein at 12.95.<br />

Chlorite in fracture, 1 crn carbonate vein. Pyrite<br />

disseminated throughout, rich in breccia vein<br />

SANDSTONE: as above, thickly bedded. Pyrite cubes<br />

and finely disseminated and in veins below 13.52<br />

MAGNETITE SAND: thinly interbedded black and white<br />

sands tone<br />

SILTSTONE: as above. Network fracturing and breccia<br />

veins 15.62-17.04. Pyrite sparse except 16.43-17.04,<br />

mainly in fractures<br />

SANDSTONE: as above, locally interlaminated with<br />

silty mudstone, mudstone. Bedding 70'. Brecciation,<br />

network fractures below 19.53. Minor chloritequartz<br />

veins. Abundant chlorite veinlets 21.24-21.39.<br />

Pyrite disseminated and veinlets to 19.25, abundant<br />

21.24-21.39<br />

MAGNETITE SAND: as above<br />

SANDSTONE: as above. Minor pyrite<br />

SILTSTONE: as above. Breccia 23.97-24.33. Pyrite<br />

abundant, especially in breccia<br />

SANDSTONE: as above, with laminae and beds of silty<br />

mudstone and spotted mudstone at intervals to<br />

35.58. Below this is a sharp increase in abundance of<br />

argillaceous component. Bedding 8 0'. Network<br />

fracturing with chlorite at intervals 25.35-28.20.<br />

Intrusion breccias 28.13-28.20, 35.25, 36.37. Veinlets<br />

chlorite, quartz, calcite, epidote throughout. Pyrite<br />

disseminated and veinlets mostly 29.27-35.58, associated<br />

with epidotisation 35.58-36.55<br />

MICRODIORITE, porphyritic: dark green, feldspar<br />

and pseudomorphs after amphiboleghenocrysts 1.5 mm.<br />

Sharp intrusive chilled contacts 20 . Abundant<br />

disseminated pyrite with local concentrations. Minor<br />

quartz, chlorite, carbonate veinlets

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