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RB 37/00039 Report on the Copper King ochre deposits (near Beltana).
The Copper King orebody, located approximately 10 miles north-northeast of Beltana township, is a massive deposit of iron carbonate, the upper portion of which has been altered by oxidation and hydration to oxides of iron. The deposit was worked...-
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Published: 09 Mar 1954
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RB 78/00154 Stuart Creek agate deposit.
Agate or banded chert nodules weather out of the Cambrian Andamooka Limestone over an area of several square kilometres south of the Stuart Creek Opal field. In places the agate nodules are concentrated into extensive deflation lag gravels. Banding is...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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Puttapa. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 11/7/1967 to 10/7/1969.
Exploration and evaluation of two large, outcropping willemite zinc orebodies, previously discovered in the Puttapa area by other parties, has been commenced under tenure of Mineral Claim 5092 newly taken up by SML 153 licensee Electrolytic Zinc Co....-
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South Puttapa. Progress and final summary reports for the period 15/7/1970 to 16/7/1971.
Appraisal of the Beltana zinc deposit continued during the current licence period, principally by diamond drilling (6 holes, total 2570 feet) aimed at delineating blind extensions to the main orebody on its southern side. The drilling was very...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Goddard, Mount Deception, Parachilna, Yandina Hill and Ben Lomond (the Flinders Ranges Project). Joint annual reports for the period 14/10/1999 to 27/4/2018.
A group of jointly reported tenements in the northern Flinders Ranges region is being explored for economic base metal mineralisation that might have formed within Late Proterozoic to Middle Cambrian continental rift margin sediments, probably with...-
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Published: 25 Jun 1918
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Beltana mine and Aroona zinc mine mining leases and retention leases (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Option period first annual report, for the period 1/1/2000 to 30/12/2000.
During the first year of its evaluation of the Beltana and Aroona mining properties on which it has taken out an option, Perilya undertook the following intensive work programme aimed at locating buried extensions and repetitions of the willemite...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Beltana. Progress reports and annual report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 16/4/1993 to 15/4/1998.
Contains a subset of data compiled by the licensee on the subject of commercial use of coloured iron oxides, plus some progress reports dealing with an assessment of red dolomitic marble from the Ajax Limestone unit for its potential use as an...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Beltana / Copley. Annual reports for the period 24/11/2013 to 23/11/2018.
A partial surrender of 64 square km in 2 blocks representing 13% of the total tenement was undertaken at the renewal of the lease. During licence Year 21 (to 23/11/2014), exploration attention returned to the Red Range prospect in the south of the...-
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Published: 21 Jan 1919
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Beltana. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/12/1990 to 6/10/1992.
TARGET: Possible undiscovered willemite mineralisation near the historic Beltana zinc mine. EXPLORATION: A detailed gravity survey of the mine area, and follow-up percussion drilling (2 holes totalling 150 metres) of the largest and highest magnitude...-
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Published: 08 Sep 1992
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Puttapa Gap. Progress reports and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 24/6/1988 to 23/12/1989.
Exploration for possible economic stratabound/hydrothermal lead-zinc deposits formed in Cambrian carbonate units, and also for hydrothermal gold, was performed under a joint venture agreement by Poseidon Minerals and covered an area surrounding the...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Beltana / Copley. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 25/6/2003 to 23/11/2013.
During licence Year 11, on renewed EL 3111 (to 27/7/2004), Perilya's exploration was focussed on expanding the mineralised intersections found near Reliance in the previous year, and on investigating the open-at-depth mineralised palaeo-karstic...-
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Published: 08 Jan 1914
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Beltana / Copley. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 15/4/1994 to 24/6/2003.
A portion of the central Flinders Ranges covering the Beltana Diapir and its surrounds has been taken up mainly to explore for possible economic buried hydrothermal replacement type or epigenetic stratabound base metal mineralisation, with magnesite...-
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Published: 23 Dec 1914
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RB 2014/00002 Carbonate hosted Pb-Zn-Ag deposits. exploration using light hydrocarbons as pathfinders.
Surveys recently conducted in England, Ireland and Australia have shown that there are major spatial variations in the 'light' [molecular weight] hydrocarbon gas content of rocks which are closely related to the presence of underlying mineralisation....-
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Published: 01 Jul 1995
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Beltana - Aroona region. Progress reports and technical reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 16/7/1971 to 15/7/1972.
Continuing prospect exploration work at the Beltana zinc orebody discovery has consisted of detailed geological mapping at 1:4 800 scale, rock chip sampling of outcropping Adelaidean and Cambrian sediments, field investigation of microgravity...-
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Special Mining Leases nos 153, 153A and 153B; Mineral Claim nos 5092 and 5350. Summary report for the period 10/7/1967 to 16/7/1971.
This report summarises, in categoric fashion, all of the various exploratory and mine development activities carried out over the past four years on the broader Puttapa area exploration licence (as renewed), and within the mineral claims taken out...-
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Beltana - Puttapa region. Progress reports and technical reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 3/8/1972 to 2/8/1974.
Geological mapping and the interpretation of drillhole data from the vicinity of the recently defined Southern orebody extension at Beltana (including 4 new diamond holes totalling 1600 feet) has enabled the licensee to formulate likely parameters of...-
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Published: 13 Feb 1975
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Geology and ore genesis, Beltana mine.
Zinc silicate (willemite) mineralisation occurs in a host rock of Lower Cambrian Ajax Limestone, which represents part of a sequence of Proterozoic to Middle Cambrian sediments that rests unconformably on folded lower Adelaidean Willouran siltstones...-
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Ediacara Range. Progress and final reports on evaluation of phosphate prospects, for the period June to November 1975.
Exploration for possible commercial accumulations of sedimentary shallow marine phosphorite ore in the Ediacara 'Sub-basin', 26 km west of Beltana, has consisted of a search within the Early Cambrian strata for any sites or layers of phosphate...-
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Puttapa. Progress reports for the period 11/1/1969 to 15/7/1970.
Ongoing base metal exploration to look for further analogues to the Beltana willemite discovery, carried out over an area located east of the Puttapa Rail Siding, has consisted of semi-detailed 1:4800 scale geological mapping and geochemical stream...-
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Beltana. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 13/11/1969 to 12/11/1971.
Shallowly buried, Cambrian stratabound base metal deposits of Mississippi Valley type, that might be associated with large throw old fault structures running along the western side of the Flinders Ranges, were sought by carrying out a varied programme...-
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