VITI MINING LTD
Mining and Exploration
TENEMENT - SPL 1457 VUNAMOLI
SPL 1457 known as the “Vunamoli” (pronounced as Voo-na-mo-lee) Prospect containing an area encompassing 3800 hectares.
There are four important deposits lying close to Vunamoli Village which is located about 18km SSE of Nadi City.
All of the four deposits occur in fine-grained tuff, siltstones, mudstones, and claystones of the Nabu Formation. The succession dips 25 degrees to 30 degrees to the southeast and is cut by a number of small faults trending ENE and NNW.
Manganese ore is intimately associated with chalcedony and forms bouldery outcrops up to 15m in diameter in the sedimentary sequence. In the No. 1 and 4 pits, this massive ore can be seen passing literally into beds of chalcedonic ore which appear conformable the bedding of the host rocks.
Some of these chalcedonic beds persist for 30 to 40 meters away from the massive ore. Host rocks interbedded with the chalcedonic horizons are usually argillised and contain Fe-rich chlorite, nontronite and montmorillonite
