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Andamooka, Stuart Creek, Arcoona, Lake Torrens, Todds Dam, Lake Arthur, Woodforde Hill and Murdie Island (the Stuart Shelf Project). Joint first partial surrender report at licences' expiry/renewal, for the period 2/5/1975 to 16/6/1986.
WMC's Stuart Shelf exploration activities from 1975 to 1985 have sought mainly Olympic Dam style mineralisation (copper - uranium - precious metals in haematitic breccia host rocks), with lesser emphasis directed at: possible distal analogues of the...-
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Frome River (part of the Copley Ni/Cu Project). Annual, partial surrender and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/10/2006 to 8/10/2009.
In a search for possible Voiseys Bay style magmatic nickel-copper mineralisation within an area of historical small scale surface mining activity located approximately 60-70 km north-east of Leigh Creek, the licensee conducted a brief campaign of...-
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Mount Fitton Talc Province. Progress, annual and miscellaneous technical summary reports for the period 16/2/79 to 24/11/96.
Talc has been mined at Mount Fitton in the northern Flinders Ranges on a continuous basis since 1945, for industrial use in the manufacture of cosmetics, ceramics and refractory ware. From 1979 to 1996, under authority of a series of Exploration...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Rose. Annual reports for the period 8/9/2010 to 7/9/2018.
An area centred ~70 km east of Leigh Creek is being explored for possible economic buried hydrothermal copper-gold mineralisation that may be associated with local diapiric breccias and nearby semi-permeable stratigraphic boundaries/disconformities....-
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Published: 17 Nov 1918
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Yerelina. Annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 7/7/2016 to 3/9/2019.
A small area located in the northern Flinders Ranges and centred ~60 km north-east of Leigh Creek has been explored for possible altered sediment - hosted gold deposits of disseminated, Carlin style which are genetically associated with hot, basement...-
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Mount Rose. First partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 8/9/2010 to 7/9/2015.
An area of 145 square km comprising the northern ~38% portion of EL 4554 centred ~50 km north-east of Leigh Creek has been relinquished due to its now perceived diminished prospectivity for copper and gold mineralisation. Work conducted on the...-
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Published: 07 Mar 1916
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Breaden Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/11/1967 to 12/11/1969.
Evaluation of possible commercial, buried stratiform copper deposits in the Willouran Ranges south of Marree was the objective of geological mapping, geochemical sampling and shallow drilling undertaken by Noranda. Their interest in the region was...-
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Geochemical mapping of a copper mineral system, Lyndhurst area (for the ARC North Project). Final report, Project ADI RD01-126 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 1, 2021].
As a part of searching for economic deposits of sediment-hosted copper (SHC) mineralisation that might have formed within rocks of the Adelaide Rift Complex Neoproterozoic sedimentation sequence occupying an area located due east of Lyndhurst in the...-
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Mount Grieg. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/12/1979 to 5/6/1981.
Exploration for possible economic syngenetic/stratiform or epigenetic/hydrothermal base metals and gold hosted by Early Cambrian and older Adelaidean rocks in the Angepena area initially comprised the conduct of reconnaissance 1:50,000 scale...-
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Published: 06 Aug 1981
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RB 69/00006 Exploration of the Mount Coffin Diapir, northern Flinders Ranges (logs not published).
Diapiric marbles and dolomitic siltstone breccia of presumed Willouran age intrude younger Umberatana Group rocks which have been folded into an elongate domal structure and, in part, rest unconformably on the diapiric core. Within the diapir several...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1971
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Hedley Hill. Annual reports submitted until the commencement of joint reporting for the six Lake Torrens Project licences, for the period 26/5/1997 to 25/5/2000.
Exploration Licence 2340 “Hedley Hill” is located adjacent to the northeast extremity of Lake Torrens. During the 80’s and 90’s exploration of the Lake Torrens district has had the prime objective of the discovery of an "Olympic Dam" style deposit...-
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Published: 20 Jul 1900
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Giant Head. Progress reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 16/1/1980 to 15/4/1982.
Calc-silicate contact metamorphic aureoles within moderately deformed Adelaidean carbonate sedimentary rocks, which surround Ordovician granitic intrusions in the Needles area of the northern Flinders Ranges, were investigated for epigenetic gold,...-
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Published: 08 Apr 1982
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RB 2012/00004 MARREE, South Australia, [geological map] sheet SH54-5. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 000 Series - Explanatory Notes.
The MARREE mapsheet area includes the south-western portion of the Strzelecki Desert plus parts of the Tirari Desert, north-western Flinders Ranges and north-eastern Willouran Ranges, between latitudes 29 to 30 degrees S and longitudes 138 to 139...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2012
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RB 2009/00001 Explanatory Notes for [the] CALLABONNA 1:250 000 Geological Map, sheet SH 54-6.
The CALLABONNA map area includes the southern end of the Strzelecki Desert and the north- eastern Flinders Ranges, between latitudes 29° to 30° S and longitudes 139° 30' to 141° E. Cameron Corner adjoins New South Wales and Queensland in the...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2009
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Bopeechee and Cadnia Hill/Stuart Creek and Porter Hill (The Lake Torrens Project). Data release made at two licences' surrender/two latter licences' fifth partial relinquishment: annual reports and final reports for the period 9/4/1998 to 31/12/2006.
The reports comprising this data release package describe exploration for economic deposits of base and precious metals that have possibly formed within Neoproterozoic metasediments, the underlying Palaeoproterozoic basement, and in Cambrian carbonate...-
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Published: 29 Sep 1909
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Mount Rose. Progress reports to licence expiry for the period 1/10/1968 to 30/9/1970; Mount Serle. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 10/2/1969 to 9/2/1971.
Base metal exploration carried out in the vicinity of historic copper workings in the Mount Rose area, situated approximately 30 miles east-northeast of Copley, has consisted of detailed 1:1500 scale geological mapping, soil and rock chip sampling,...-
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Sundown Creek. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 3/10/1977 to 2/10/1979.
Exploration undertaken in an area of practically no outcrop that is situated north and north-west of the Ediacara Range, on the eastern side of Lake Torrens, has aimed primarily at investigating the mineral potential of a large, low amplitude...-
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Published: 26 May 1980
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White Banks. Progress and annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 22/4/1991 to 8/2/1995.
Exploration for diamonds, undertaken in an area centred 60 km east-northeast of Lyndhurst which had not been searched for this commodity previously, comprised the acquisition of aeromagnetic/radiometric and helimag surveys, and gravel and loam...-
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Report on SML 165, Breaden Hill area, Willouran Ranges, SA.
As a result of the work outlined in this report it is concluded that the possibility of economic tonnages of copper ore within the area of Special Mining Lease no. 165 are restricted to three localities, Breaden Hill, Boorloo and East Rook. All three...-
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ExpNotes MARREE: Explanatory Notes MARREE
A new generation, second edition MARREE 1:250 000 scale geological map and its explanatory notes have been published. These documents represent the conclusion of the Geological Survey of South Australia's latest geological mapping program (1993 to...-
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