Geologically the deposit is a sheeted quartz vein-hosted deposit characterised by silicatourmaline-
garnet-biotite-apatite alteration of Siluro-Devonian greenstones of the Hodgkinson
Formation. The chief ore mineral mined to date is wolframite (ferberite), but scheelite is present
both replacing wolframite and as a later veinlet filling. The deposit is open at depth and possibly
also plunges to the north. Research suggests that it is analogous to a number of other sheeted
quartz vein wolframite-dominated deposits, most of which occur in the “tungsten belt” that
stretches across southern China.