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Bend Hut. Third partial surrender report, for the period 2/5/2011 to 1/5/2018.
EL 4729/6019, which extends along the Mount Norwest Range located west-northwest of Leigh Creek for a distance of 50 to 66 km from there, and surrounds the location of the historic large Witchelina magnesite deposit, is being explored for possible...-
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Published: 09 May 2018
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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 2020
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Parry (part of the Northern Flinders Ranges Magnesite Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 4/1/1999 to 3/1/2004.
Exploration Licence (EL) 2570 Mt Parry was granted to Magnesium Developments Limited on the 4 January 1999. Exploration within EL 2570 focussed on magnesite (MgCO3), which occurs within a sequence of interbeds with the Neoproterozoic, Skillogalee...-
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Published: 25 Feb 2004
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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 2014
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Myrtle Springs (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). First partial surrender report for the period 2/4/2003 to 15/12/2009.
The only exploration field work completed by JV operator Perilya on the relinquished subareas of the tenement was a review made during 2008 of the magnesite potential of the licence, along with that of EL 3111 (now EL 4211) located adjacent to the...-
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Published: 28 Sep 2010
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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 2021
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bend Hut. Annual reports for the period 2/5/2011 to 1/5/2019.
A known, undeveloped stratabound Neoproterozoic magnesite deposit at Witchelina, for which resources and reserves have historically been defined, has been taken up afresh in anticipation that a beneficiation procedure can be developed that will result...-
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Published: 05 May 2019
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RB 2008/00016 Review of the Burra Mine Project, 1980-2008 - a progress report.
The Burra (Burra) Mine, situated 150 km north of Adelaide within the Adelaide Geosyncline, produced 2.7 million tonnes of copper ore in two major mining phases - 1845-1877 and 1970-1981. The first phase was initially progressed by underground...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2009
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Eurelia Diamond Project. Joint annual reports for the period 1/1/2014 to 17/11/2018.
Since taking over ownership of five licences that previously formed parts of Flinders Mines' Springfield Project, by a purchase agreement that took force in June 2014, Diamond Resources has been working to define, identify and prioritise advanced...-
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Published: 31 Dec 2018
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Chinaman Hat Hill. Second partial surrender report, for the period 21/2/2011 to 20/2/2018.
An area located on the edge of the ranges north-east of Burra, and centred 20 km east of Whyte Yarcowie, is being explored for possible primary orogenic gold associated with a prominent fold flexure in Adelaidean metasediments that is exposed in the...-
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Published: 19 Oct 2018
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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 2017
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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 2017
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Ketchowla. Annual reports for the period 15/6/2009 to 14/6/2019 and Partial Surrender Report to 22/09/2023.
An area located in the Worlds End detrital alluvial goldfield district of the north-eastern Mount Lofty Ranges, and centred ~20 km north-east of Burra, is being explored mainly for possible economic stratiform/replacement manganese oxide...-
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Published: 17 Jun 2019
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South Australian Neoproterozoic sediment-hosted copper occurrences : Location Map
The South Australian Neoproterozoic sediment-hosted copper occurrence map displays a distinct category of the State’s copper occurrences. 662 occurrences have been identified as being hosted in Neoproterozic sediments and then were further classified...-
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Published: 01 Jul 2022
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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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Published: 03 Jul 2025
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Bend Hut. Second partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 2/5/2011 to 1/5/2016.
EL 4729, which extends along the Mount Norwest Range located west-northwest of Leigh Creek for a distance of 50 to 75 km, and surrounds the location of the historic large Witchelina magnesite deposit, is being explored for possible other economic...-
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Published: 24 Nov 2017
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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 2018
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Apoinga. First partial surrender report for the period 5/11/2007 to 4/11/2009.
EL 3972 - Apoinga occurs within the northern Mount Lofty Ranges, where the exposed bedrock comprises Neoproterozoic rocks of the Adelaide Fold Belt. The main feature of interest to Copper Range within its licence area is the Tarnma Anticline, which is...-
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Published: 19 Apr 2010
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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 2015
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Eukaby. Annual and final reports to licence surrender, for the period 21/1/1997 to 19/7/2001.
The Eukaby mining field area of the eastern Flinders Ranges was explored for Au-Ag-Pb-Zn mineralisation, while geophysical data modelling targetted Olympic Dam style metallogenic systems. Information gained from detailed structural mapping and rock...-
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Published: 20 Aug 2001