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Mount Bayley. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 22/7/1971 to 21/7/1972.
A small area located 15 km north-east of Beltana was explored for possible economic stratabound or epigenetic/hydrothermal base metal deposits associated with Adelaidean and Cambrian calcareous/dolomitic strata and Willouran diapiric structures. Work...-
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Hawker. Final report at licence expiry/full surrender for the period 2/7/2007 to 1/7/2009.
Copper Range has targeted several different styles of base metal mineralisation within the Chace Range district. Initially its focus was on sediment (sandstone)- hosted copper deposits, with exploration being confined to reconnaissance field visits to...-
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Published: 22 Jun 1909
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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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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Ediacara, Blinman and Wilkawillina (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Joint annual reports for the period 3/12/2001 to 31/12/2009.
During the first year of combined reporting for exploration licence 2675 “Ediacara”, 2593 “Blinman’ and 2627 “Wilkawillina”, the exploration focus was primarily on the Ediacara tenement. During mid-1999, Perilya reviewed the Ediacara Mineral Field,...-
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Published: 22 Mar 1910
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Data release - as updated : Castle Rock. Annual reports to licence full surrender, for the period 17/3/2009 to 14/1/2016.
Exploration for possible economic concealed Beltana mine type stratabound lead-zinc-(silver) mineralisation, and for other diapiric and associated basic igneous intrusion - related base metal and/or gold occurrences, was carried out over a small area...-
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Published: 20 Jan 1916
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Unlocking South Australia's Mineral and Energy Potential - A Plan for Accelerating Exploration. PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry) : Year 9 partnership no. DPY9-31 - Red Range. Drilling project final report.
Perilya's North Flinders Project aims to evaluate that region for potentially economic Beltana style zinc silicate mineralisation. Known deposits are relatively small (<1 Mt), but lie near the surface and typically exhibit extremely high grades...-
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Published: 04 Apr 1917
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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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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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The Springfield Project [Part]. Data release at licences' partial relinquishment / full surrender: base metal exploration farminee's joint annual reports for the period 27/10/2006 to 31/12/2009.
Copper Range is exploring a number of the Springfield Project mineral tenements for base and precious metals under the terms of a joint venture agreement that it made with licensee Flinders Diamonds on 19/3/2007, whereby the latter retains all rights...-
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Published: 20 Aug 1910
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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 2000/00010 Investigation of the potential for rainwater harvesting at Nepabunna, North Flinders Ranges, South Australia.
The availability of rainwater, and possible harvesting techniques and storage media are investigated. Reasonable amounts of rainfall occur, but falls are interspersed by long droughts. There are problems with silting up of dams, and with protecting...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2000
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Balcanoona and Wertaloona. Progress reports to licences' joint expiry/renewal, for the period 20/8/1965 to 19/8/1966.
Examination of an historically worked occurrence of stratiform base metal mineralisation near Balcanoona in the central Flinders Ranges, 50 miles east of Copley, has involved intensive geochemical sampling of abandoned mine adits, old dumps,...-
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Kanyaka Mines prospect [near Quorn]. Progress reports to licence expiry for the period 9/6/1969 to 8/6/1971.
Evaluation of the base metal potential of minor historical copper workings within folded lower Cambrian strata, in an area located 25 km north of Quorn, failed to identify significant geochemical or geophysical evidence for shallowly buried...-
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Kanyaka. Progress reports to licence surrender/partial renewal over a reduced area, for the period 27/5/1971 to 26/11/1971.
Reconnaissance geochemical sampling of creeks draining Lower Cambrian sediments in the Kanyaka Hill area has located several lead-zinc anomalies reaching up to seven times background, which are related to the Parachilna Formation limestones. A crush...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1971
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Comstock mine, South Australia. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 23/11/1976 to 31/5/1977.
Exploration of the area surrounding the historic Comstock copper mine entailed doing 1:5000 scale geological mapping, soil and rock chip geochemical sampling, the conduct of 7 line km of ground magnetic surveying and 4.8 line km of dipole-dipole IP...-
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Mount John. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 15/1/1969 to 14/7/1970.
In a continuation of uranium exploration work (part of the Frome Project) begun by E-Z and Newmont on their former SML 217, a surface radiometric anomaly previously identified at the Mount John prospect by ground scintillometer prospecting and shallow...-
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Ediacara Mineral Field. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 11/3/1968 to 14/1/1969.
A re-investigation of the remnant mineralisation potential of the Ediacara Mineral Field has involved a review of SA Department of Mines' (SADM) diamond drillhole data, the selective re-sampling of diamond drill core intervals for assay, detailed...-
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Balcanoona examination, South Australia, August 1965 - July 1966 [Special report on SML 89].
Exploration carried out near an historically worked small occurrence of stratiform base metal mineralisation near Balcanoona in the central Flinders Ranges, 50 miles east of Copley, aiming to follow up reported surface geochemical anomalies, has...-
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Mount McKinlay. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 24/2/1972 to 23/2/1973.
Possible hydrothermally - deposited native mercury metal associated with the Mount John Fault zone, perhaps in a quartz splinter vein setting similar to that of the mercury occurrence previously found nearby at the Moro mine, plus elsewhere, economic...-
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Kanyaka. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/8/1966 to 31/10/1967.
As part of a regional search for possible economic stratabound Early Palaeozoic base metal deposits, Kennecott Explorations carried out stream sediment sampling and geological mapping of the Kanyaka Syncline, plus more intensive near-mine exploration...-
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Published: 05 Oct 1967
