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CONFIDENTIAL
RAVENSTHORPE GEOLOGY OVERVIEW
▪ Ravensthorpe contains several Ni Laterite deposits
developed across 17 km over Archean ultramafic rocks
of the Ravensthorpe Greenstone Belt, namely:
▪ Halleys
▪ Hale-Bopp
▪ Shoemaker-Levy
▪ Shoemaker-Levy North
▪ Nindibilup
▪ Bandalup Ultramafics were exposed to deep weathering
and oxidation to form concentrations of shallow Ni
laterite mineralisation
▪ Each deposit has similar regolith and geochemistry –
caprock, limonite, saprolite, saprock, bedrock
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