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Mount Frome. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 22/10/1973 to 21/10/1974.
A re-investigation of base metal geochemical anomalies detected during Electrolytic Zinc Co.'s former stream sediment and rock chip sampling programme conducted near an historic copper-lead mine prospect at Mount Chambers in the eastern Flinders...-
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Published: 06 Sep 1974
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Boolooroo Goldfield. Annual reports to licence expiry for the period 24/11/1995 to 14/3/2006.
Protracted exploration undertaken by an individual mineral prospector over a small area of rugged topography located in the north-central Flinders Ranges, approximately 25 km north-east of Leigh Creek, has addressed a number of potentially economic...-
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Published: 14 Mar 1906
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Mount Plantagenet. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 11/2/1971 to 10/2/1973.
Ongoing exploration for economic epigenetic and syngenetic copper occurrences in the vicinity of the Worumba Diapir, east of Hawker, has concentrated on field mapping, soil and channel sampling and shallow percussion drilling (47 holes for 3755+ feet)...-
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Published: 23 May 1972
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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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Wirrealpa. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 13/9/1988 to 12/9/1989.
Possible economic stratabound or epigenetic lead-zinc or copper deposits, formed in altered carbonate rocks lying marginal to the Wirrealpa Diapir, were the targets of new exploration centred on the area of the old Wirrealpa lead-silver mine....-
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Published: 06 Nov 1989
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Mount Frome. Progress and final reports to licence surrender, for the period 25/10/1979 to 25/2/1988.
As part of a regional project of exploration for Mississippi Valley type (MVT) lead-zinc mineralisation emplaced in tectonically and structurally 'prepared ground' within Lower Cambrian limestones, Dampier/BHP investigated rocks of this age which...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Boolooroo Goldfield and Kate Hill. Joint annual reports for the period 2/1/2009 to 8/2/2019.
Two adjoining licence areas located ~ 40 km north-east of Leigh Creek township, in the ranges lying immediately east of the Telford coal basin, are being explored for possible economic occurrences of marble rock which are believed to hold enormous...-
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Wirrealpa. Progress reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 23/3/1977 to 8/11/1977.
Exploration for possible economic syngenetic lead-zinc sulphide mineralisation hosted by Lower Cambrian carbonate units in the vicinity of the Wirrealpa Diapir has comprised a review of past exploration in the region, two brief sorties of field...-
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Published: 17 Oct 1977
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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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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Boolooroo Goldfield. Annual reports for the period 9/2/2007 to 8/2/2009.
The Boolooroo licence area is located ~ 40 km north-east of Leigh Creek township, in the ranges lying immediately east of the Telford coal basin, are being explored for possible economic occurrences of marble rock which are believed to hold enormous...-
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Published: 26 Feb 1909
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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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Memorandum re. consultant's interpretation of results of reconnaissance stream sediment survey performed over part of SML 557 (formerly SML 293).
3414 geochemical reconnaissance stream sediment samples were taken over an area of 277 square miles for NFM during the period December 1969 - August 1971, and analysed for anomalous Cu/Pb/Zn in Sturtian-Marinoan to Lower Cambrian bedrock...-
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Published: 08 Oct 1971
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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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Mount Hayward. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 13/5/1971 to 12/5/1972.
Continuing exploration undertaken by Electrolytic Zinc Co. (E-Z), looking for possible economic primary stratabound lead-zinc sulphide deposits in the Heysen Range area, was focused on evaluating a newly discovered occurrence of...-
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Mount Serle. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 20/9/1973 to 19/9/1974.
A 750 sample programme of soil geochemical surveying conducted in an area located south-east of Mount Serle Homestead failed to locate any noteworthy base metal anomalies: Pb and Zn values approached the regional background only, while Cu showed...-
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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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