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EL 272 Hamilton Creek. A regional assessment of the base metal potential of the Parabarana (to) Gunsight trend, and Callanna Beds (through) Yudnamutana sequence, northern Mount Painter Province, South Australia.
Aquitaine Australia Minerals Pty Ltd (Aquitaine) entered into a joint venture with North Flinders Mines on 21 August 1975, over an area defined by Exploration Licence 272 (ex EL 153). The area included two main prospective zones for copper deposits:...-
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Yudnamutana. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 24/6/1972 to 23/6/1973.
As part of continuing exploration for possible economic buried stratiform / hydrothermal copper mineralisation in the Yudnamutana Mining Field, the target lower Callanna Group strata were geologically mapped, petrologically studied and geochemically...-
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Report on the Shamrock uranium prospect.
Uranium mineralisation was first discovered at the old Shamrock Copper Mine during a systematic search of old mine dumps by the South Australian Department of Mines in 1955. Follow-up investigations located a small high-grade uranium lode (Valley...-
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Report on exploration investigations in the Mount McDonnell Valley.
Outcropping Wywyana Formation in the Mount McDonnell Valley, which had been shown by past work to be highly anomalous in copper, with attendant gold enrichment, was targetted by 50 m by 20 m grid-based geological, geochemical and ground geophysical...-
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Arkaroola. Progress and technical reports to licence renewal for the period 19/5/1972 to 18/5/1974.
Ongoing base metal exploration in the Arkaroola Station region of the north-eastern Flinders Ranges by licensee North Flinders Mines (NFM) has involved reviews of certain existing prospects, which has led to the entry of farminee Shell Minerals...-
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Summary of the previous exploration for stratiform copper and proposed follow-up exploration in the Yudnamutana Hill area, South Australia.
This report summarises the relevant results of previous copper exploration in the Yudnamutana Hill area by Utah Exploration Co. and Australian Aquitaine Petroleum Pty Ltd, and suggests an ongoing exploration programme for stratiform copper. It also...-
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North Well Creek. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/11/1994 to 14/11/1999.
Exploration, initially for rare metal elements, was carried out in the vicinity of diapiric structures intruded by leucogranite in the area between Arkaroola Village and Umberatana Homestead. Work comprising petrography, rock chip sampling, stream...-
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Published: 07 Feb 1900
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Tourmaline Hill. Progress reports for the period 9/6/88 to 8/3/89.
TARGET: Beryllium minerals associated with altered carbonate lithology contact aureoles to sodic granitoids emplaced in regionally metasomatised Lower Proterozoic metasediments. EXPLORATION: Reconnaissance rock chip sampling, and resampling of 197 CRA...-
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Published: 25 May 1989
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Arkaroola (part of the Frome Basin Project). Annual reports for the period 3/6/1996 to 4/12/2008. [ Index Part 1 of 2 ].
A 1243 square km rugged mountainous area in the far northern Flinders Ranges extending between Arkaroola, Moolawatana, Prospect Hill, Mount Livingston and Mount Saturday was taken up to explore primarily for gold that it was hoped could exist in...-
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Wooltana. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 19/3/1970 to 18/3/1972.
Renewed base metal exploration over part of the historic Yudnamutana Mining Field has targeted base metal anomalies previously found by Australian Selection in the Blue mine area. An area of about 80 square miles was assessed by reconnaissance stream...-
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The Needles. Progress reports and annual report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 22/6/1973 to 21/6/1975.
Ongoing exploration for economic base and precious metals in the Blue mine area at the eastern end of the Umberatana Syncline has comprised detailed, 1:5000 scale prospect mapping, preparation of a preliminary new tectonic and structural analysis...-
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The Needles. Progress and technical reports for the period 19/1/1976 to 18/7/1977.
Investigation of basal Adelaidean Callanna Beds metasediments in the vicinity of the Blue mine and Wheal Turner, north of The Needles in the northern Flinders Ranges, sought to disclose possible Zambian type stratiform massive copper sulphides...-
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Mount Pitt (the Mawson Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/1/2006 to 18/10/2013.
A small, two-part licence area, located 15 km west-northwest of Arkaroola Village and ~10 km west-southwest of the Mount Gee uranium occurrence, adjacent to the northern end of the Gammon Ranges National Park, has been explored for possible economic...-
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Published: 27 Nov 1913
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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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Moolawatana. Quarterly and final reports for the period 26/8/75 to 25/8/76.
Ongoing copper/uranium exploration of basement and Willouran cover southwest of Moolawatana comprised ground magnetic, IP, EM and TEM surveys, airborne EM (Turair) and magnetic surveys, prospect-scale geochemical surveys and limited diamond drilling...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1977
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Yudnamutana - Mount Painter area. Progress and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 24/6/1971 to 23/6/1972.
Exploration for possible stratiform massive base metal sulphide deposits in the area of the historic Yudnamutana Mining Field, located 12 km north-west of Mount Painter, was designed to follow up promising copper geochemical anomalies and related...-
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Umberatana area. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/3/1972 to 18/3/1973.
Geochemical and geophysical surveys of the Blue mine - Wheal Turner area, plus semi-detailed geological and structural mapping in the Wild Dog Creek area, identified the Wortupa Quartzite and surrounding strata as the main hosts of low grade secondary...-
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Yudnamutana Hill. Progress reports and annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/5/1980 to 15/2/1995.
Base metal and gold exploration undertaken over a lengthy period since 1980 in the Yudnamutana Hill area, 20 km north-west of Arkaroola, has comprised detailed geological mapping of major basement and cover stratigraphic units and known mineral...-
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Mount Painter area (Yudnamutana Mining Field and Shamrock Valley). Progress and final relinquishment reports for the period 1/10/1968 to 31/3/1970.
Kennecott took up 3 SMLs in the Mount Painter district during 1968 to evaluate known copper-uranium occurrences and to search for new occurrences. At the same time, they secured the ground surrounding four 40-acre Mineral Claims already in their...-
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Final report, Yudnamutana [Mining Field] examination.
Four Mineral Claims of 40 acres each were taken out by Kennecott in October 1967 to allow investigation of a major fault breccia and fracture zone in Proterozoic rocks in the Yudnamutana area of the northern Flinders Ranges. The intention was to test...-
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