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Mount Arden (part of the Hawker Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/10/2007 to 21/10/2009.
EL 3961 lying 10 km north-west of Quorn forms part of the Hawker Project tenement package within the Adelaide Fold Belt that is being explored for sediment-hosted copper deposits. Licensee Copper Range has been looking for bleached, altered sandstone...-
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Published: 04 Mar 1910
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Baroota. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 10/11/2008 to 9/11/2012.
Exploration conducted over an area of the western Adelaide Fold Belt centred about 15 km east of Port Germein was designed to appraise the subsurface gold and copper potential of a possibly economically mineralised diapir or diatreme present in the...-
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Published: 15 Aug 1912
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Cone (subsequently part of the Burra North Project). Annual reports submitted until the commencement of project licences' joint reporting, for the period 6/3/2007 to 5/3/2009.
An area of 300 square km located immediately north and north-east of Burra was taken up because it is considered to be prospective for gold and copper mineralisation related to Cambro-Ordovician sediments and late-stage felsic and mafic intrusives,...-
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Bend Hut. First partial surrender report, for the period 2/5/2011 to 1/5/2015.
EL 4729, which extends along the Mount Norwest Range located west-northwest of Leigh Creek for a distance of 50 to 75 km from there, and surrounds the location of the historic large Witchelina magnesite deposit, is being explored for possible other...-
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Published: 29 Jul 1915
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Bundey Bore Station (part of the Burra Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 29/3/2011 to 24/12/2015.
Exploration for possible economic buried Burra type copper oxide and copper carbonate mineralisation, that may have formed within metasedimentary country rocks in a volcanic or porphyry- related setting within two small areas of the eastern Adelaide...-
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Collaby Hill. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/1/2011 to 6/1/2014.
An area of the southern Flinders Ranges extending from Crystal Brook northwards to the Mount Remarkable Range has been explored for possible economic stratabound magnesite occurrences that may outcrop within Adelaidean metasediments. The known...-
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Published: 30 Mar 1914
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Hallett (part of the Nackara Gold Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/8/2002 to 4/10/2012.
An area of high country in the far northern Mount Lofty Ranges was taken under licence to try to find the primary source(s) of widely dispersed detrital gold known from Recent and Tertiary cover sediments in the region, while focussing mainly on...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Burra Hill (part of the Burra South Project). Annual reports submitted until the commencement of project licences' joint reporting, for the period 1/5/2006 to 30/4/2009.
Within a small licence area centred about 15 km south-south-east of Burra township in the northern Mount Lofty Ranges, Copper Range initially targeted near-surface copper oxide mineralisation associated with an altered and brecciated contact zone...-
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Paratoo (part of the Paratoo Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 18/4/2013 to 27/6/2014.
An small area located immediately north-east of Paratoo township has been explored for possible buried Burra mine type epithermal/hydrothermal copper mineralisation, as well as for gold and rare earth metals which may have accumulated in proximity to...-
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Published: 10 Jun 1914
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Clare, Spalding and Washpool (the Spalding Project). Data release made in lieu of submitting partial surrender reports for EL 5910/6430 and five related Burra Project licences: joint annual reports for the period 10/11/2009 to 9/11/2019.
Phoenix Copper was attracted to explore the Spalding Inlier region in the Northern Mount Lofty Ranges after earlier work done by the South Australian Department of Mines (SADM) and by Copper Range reported the occurrence of several known sites of...-
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Published: 05 Jan 1920
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Burra. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 27/1/2004 to 26/1/2009.
An area of 160 square km surrounding the abandoned historic Burra mine and open cut was taken up to conduct step-out exploration for a distance of 10 km distant from this location, to try to discover similar shallowly buried copper resources and/or...-
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Mount Parry (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Fifth partial surrender report, for the period 4/1/1999 to 24/12/2013.
A 47.4 square km area, representing about 37% of EL 4358, has been relinquished due to the inferred significant cover there of Quaternary alluvial and aeolian overburden. No field work was conducted on this area as part of a regional search for...-
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Published: 12 May 1914
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Mongolata. Third partial surrender report, for the period 13/2/2004 to 9/3/2014.
Exploration for copper and gold mineralisation within a now wholly relinquished 213 square km licence eastern sub-block, located 18-30 km north-east of Burra, has utilised geochemical and geophysical methods to assess the potential of buried...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Myrtle Springs and Mount Parry (the Aroona JV Project). Joint annual reports for the period 2/4/2004 to 2/4/2018.
Two adjoining areas located west-northwest of Leigh Creek are being explored as part of a regional search for possible economic Beltana-style zinc silicate hydrothermal replacement mineralisation hosted by brecciated Cambrian or Neoproterozoic bedrock...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1918
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Yadlamalka. Combined first annual/final report to licence full surrender, for the period 13/6/2013 to 16/7/2014.
A very small area centred ~60 km north-east of Port Augusta has been explored for possible economic buried lignite and also for Burra type porphyry intrusive - related secondary copper mineralisation or for kimberlitic diamonds. During the first...-
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Published: 27 May 1914
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Mount Bryan (part of the Burra Project). Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/4/2010 to 26/4/2015.
Within an area centred ~ 15 km north-west of Burra, Phoenix Copper Limited has been exploring for possible buried, structurally controlled sediment-hosted copper and gold mineralisation within the Skillogalee Dolomite member of the Adelaidean Burra...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bagot Well North, Tarnma, Bagot Well and Australia Plains (the Eudunda Group of tenements). Joint annual reports for the period 5/10/2009 to 4/8/2017.
As part of a renewed search for possible buried economic volcanogenic or epigenetic stratiform copper oxide or copper carbonate deposits, thought to be associated with poorly exposed fault structures and related hydrothermal alteration of Adelaidean...-
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Published: 19 Sep 1917
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Mount Parry (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Sixth partial surrender report, for the period 4/1/1999 to 2/6/2015.
EL 5520 is being explored as part of a regional search for possible economic Beltana-style zinc silicate hydrothermal replacement mineralisation hosted by brecciated Cambrian or Neoproterozoic bedrock carbonates. No field work was completed by licence...-
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Published: 11 Dec 1915
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bald Hill North. Annual reports for the period 25/7/2006 to 24/7/2009.
A small area centred ~5 km west of Burra township is being explored for possible buried economic, Monster mine type stratiform copper oxide or copper carbonate deposits, thought to be associated with poorly exposed fault structures and related...-
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Data release - as updated : Apoinga (latterly part of the Eudunda Group of tenements). Early annual reports for the period 5/11/2007 to 4/11/2009, plus final report at licence full surrender on 15/6/2017 [letter only].
EL 3972 Apoinga is located within the northern Mount Lofty Ranges, where bedrock comprises Proterozoic rocks of the Adelaide Fold Belt. The main prospect area within EL 3972 is the Tarnma Anticline, a N-S trending fold which is cored by Skillogalee...-
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Published: 20 Jul 1917