Stress Mapping Technology is a proprietary technique developed to target epigenetic mineralisation located in dilatant (low stress) sites. It is a computer based technique, based on rock mechanics principles and stress-strain relationships, which seeks to transform strain data, in the form of a solid geology map, to stress data._x000D_
The main assumptions in the conceptual model are that: The strain pattern of faults and lithological contacts have not been changed since mineralisation i.e._x000D_
that ore formation is late in the structural history._x000D_
Stress orientations and magnitudes are known._x000D_
Rheological properties of faults and rock units can be deduced._x000D_
The 2D geometric and rheological data is then treated by a mathematical technique which permits the geometry of the elements to be defined by the spacing and orientation of the discontinuities in the rock mass.