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footwall

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footwall [′fu̇t‚wȯl]
(geology)
The mass of rock that lies beneath a fault, an ore body, or a mine working. Also known as heading side; heading wall; lower plate.


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The real intrigue with the footwall zones is that they tend to be copper-rich and they tend to be stuffed full of platinum group elements (PGEs), so the value per tonne can be quite spectacular," Anderson says.
TSX:FNX)(AMEX:FNX) announces that the ongoing drill program, at its 100% owned Levack Property in Sudbury, Ontario, continues to intersect significant widths of high-grade, Cu-Ni-Pt-Pd-Au footwall mineralization and has started to delineate the Levack Footwall Deposit.
The ambitious Toronto miner expects to spend $14 million of its $16 million exploration budget within the Sudbury Igneous Complex, with half of that going into last year's hot new find, their highly prospective Levack footwall discovery on the north range.
 
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