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Torrington
| location |
New England, Northern New South Wales |
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holding |
100% |
| infrastructure |
The lease is easily accessible by sealed road, and there are frequent serviceable dirt tracks throughout. |
| work commitment |
A 2 year staged development program, with completion of a Full Feasability Study by December 2010 |
| operator |
Resolve Geo Pty Ltd |
EL 7543 Torrington comprises 17 sub-blocks encompassing an area of 35 sq km within the New England Fold Belt in northern NSW. The exploration licence area itself is wholly within the Mole Granite, a Late Permian-Early Triassic leucocratic alkali feldspar granitoid member of the New England Batholith. Covering a large portion of the exploration licence area is the "Torrington Pendant" a remanent roof cap of Early Permian metasediments within the Mole Granite that holds numerous tungsten, bismuth and silexite deposits and occurrences. Historically the area has been explored (with some historical mining) for tin, tungsten, gold, beryl and topaz. The Torrington Pendant contains one of the world's largest posted topaz resources, which is hosted within large silexite bodies. The vast majority of this resource is found within EL 7543. Many small tungsten occurrences have assays returning tungsten values commonly between 2-3%, with some examples assaying over 10% W03. The silexite is also an important economic target for refractory products and fluorine compounds, containing an average of 19% Topaz. Access to EL 7543 Torrington is via sealed roads and unsealed tracks via Torrington and Tenterfield. The New England Highway is 35km to the east. EL7543 contains a JORC compliant resource of 5.5Mt of silexite, with an average grade of 19% topaz, 0.20% WO5, 0.06% B
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