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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Wilkawillina (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Annual reports submitted until the commencement of joint reporting for all six Project licences, for the period 5/8/1999 to 3/8/2002.
A large area centred on the Wilkawillina Gorge of Ten Mile Creek, in the central Flinders Ranges near Oraparinna, is being explored for possible buried economic zinc silicate (willemite) epigenetic or replacement mineralisation of Beltana type, as...-
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Chimpering Rock Hole, Lake Tallacootra, Pybung and Chundaria (the BARTON base and precious metals project). Annual reports for the periods 25/7/1992 to 24/7/1994, and 30/12/1994 to 29/12/1996.
In 1993 the SA Government flew a regional aeromagnetic survey over the western Gawler Craton as part of the South Australian Exploration Initiative, which prompted North Ltd to change direction with its BARTON area exploration programme, to address...-
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Published: 13 Mar 1997
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Algebuckina. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/8/2008 to 28/9/2014.
The only field work undertaken by Red Metal during its final six years of tenure of EL 3226/4307 Algebuckina was the assaying in 2011 of 88 soil and rock chip samples which it had collected from the vicinity of historically reported surface copper...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1914
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Mount Craig Copper Project. Final report for June to December 2021 geophysical and drilling program, Project ADI RD02-268 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2021].
An area centred ~28 km east of Hawker is being explored for possible buried epigenetic/hydrothermal, skarn style and sediment-hosted stratabound base and precious metals mineralisation that may have formed within prepared Adelaidean metasedimentary...-
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Published: 02 Nov 1921
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Andamooka. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 26/3/1970 to 25/3/1971.
Exploration for supergene Cu-Pb-Zn mineralisation within the Cambrian Andamooka Limestone, 12 miles north-east of Andamooka, comprised broad scale surface geochemical sampling (302 samples), detailed mapping of the resulting prospects, bulldozer...-
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Published: 28 Apr 1971
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MR 002 Short review of mining operations in the State of South Australia during the half-year ended June 30th, 1904
Articles include reports on: Copper: Wallaroo and Moonta, Paramatta and Yelta, Hamley, Blinman, Burra Burra; Kapunda, Prince Alfred, Lynda, Mutooroo , Paull's, Clara St. Dora and Mount Fitton South Mines, Gold: Tarcoola, Petersburg Mount Torrens,...-
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RB 62/00028 Report on geochemical investigation, Burra project.
The pedological environment of the Burra area is described, the methods of soil sampling and sample penetration are given in detail and an outline of the spectrographic analytical procedure is given. Attempts at applying statistical methods to the...-
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Published: 02 Feb 1966
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The Musgrave Project. Joint annual reports for the period 5/10/2007 to 31/1/2012 [as later updated, to include additional licences, to 31/1/2017], plus respective successive full surrender final reports for individual licences.
The multi-licence Mithril - Barrick JV Musgrave Project area is centred 600 km south-west of Alice Springs, within the APY Lands of north-western South Australia. It is considered to be prospective for buried economic Ni-Cu-PGE sulphide mineral...-
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Published: 09 Oct 1917
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Tanner Dam North. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 22/11/2012 to 26/2/2014.
An area centred approximately 130 km north-northwest of Kimba has been explored for possible economic primary uranium mineralisation, where the principal target is the igneous rock succession of Mesoproterozoic Gawler Range Volcanics (GRV) and...-
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South of Burra area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 1/6/1964 to 25/2/1966.
Exploration reconnaissance work has been carried out over many old copper mines and prospects situated within a 172 square mile area located south of the town of Burra [the impetus being that recently the South Australian Department of Mines had...-
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Published: 25 Feb 1966
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Leigh Creek. Progress and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 4/3/1974 to 3/3/1976.
Ongoing exploration of abandoned historic mine workings and the surrounding area at the Mountain of Light prospect, located approximately 2 miles east of Copley, was aimed at delineating an economic copper oxide/carbonate - mineralised orebody and any...-
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Mountain of Light copper prospect. Progress and final reports on activities carried out during the exercise of successive company exploration options, for the period April 1970 to April 1972.
Dataset comprises a set of un-related reports on drilling and surface investigations made by various interested companies at the historic Mountain of Light prospect in the early 1970s, at the invitation of the private syndicate holding the mineral...-
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Mount Davidson. Progress, annual and final reports to licence expiry for the period 15/1/1970 to 14/1/1972.
Exploration for possible hydrothermal/stratabound replacement-type base metal deposits in an area located 28 miles north-east of Hawker, adjacent to the northern margin of the Worumba Diapir, has consisted of photogeological mapping of structures...-
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Published: 17 Jan 1972
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Toweroo Bore. Progress reports to licence surrender for the period 30/9/1968 to 30/4/1970.
Uranium exploration, undertaken over a small area of poorly outcropping to shallowly subcropping amphibolite facies metamorphosed Early Precambrian basement located near Toweroo Bore, 35 km north-northwest of Crocker Well, has comprised 144 line km of...-
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Published: 04 Feb 1970
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Ulooloo Goldfield. Final report to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 1/11/1967 to 31/10/1968.
Following preliminary geochemical/mineralogical sampling and examinations, a search for economic deposits of vanadium-rich detrital heavy minerals (e.g. magnetite) deposited in the Ulooloo Creek was deemed as unsuccessful.-
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Clare. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 12/3/1970 to 11/3/1971.
In a search for possible economic stratiform / hydrothermal base metal occurrences and stratabound phosphate mineral deposits in the Clare Hills district, an initial reconnaissance visit and literature search was followed by the conduct of a regional...-
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Published: 10 Jun 1971
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Mulgathing. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 18/11/1968 to 17/11/1969.
Reconnaissance mapping and sampling of an area of poorly exposed Precambrian crystalline basement north of Kingoonya has shown that the regional geology is dominated by intensely folded, discontinuously outcropping banded iron formations that are...-
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Pitcairn. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 28/5/1970 to 27/5/1971.
In a search for base metals within an area located east of Peterborough, detailed stream sediment sampling (1499 samples) and statistical analysis of the results defined several discrete anomalies of interest that warrant geological inspection and...-
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Northern Willouran Ranges. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 12/3/1970 to 11/9/1971.
Exploration for possible economic stratabound/stratiform copper, zinc and vanadium mineralisation occurring within a large area located south-west of Marree has consisted of geological field mapping and regional stream sediment sampling (3470...-
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Published: 10 Jun 1971
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Peterborough area. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 12/3/1970 to 11/3/1971.
Exploration for possible economic stratabound / hydrothermal deposits of base metals and perhaps also uranium, within a large area surrounding Peterborough, has consisted of field inspection and rock chip geochemical sampling of known historic mines,...-
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Published: 10 Mar 1971
