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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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EL 82 Yudnamutana, SA. Progress and final reports from 20/7/1973 to 19/7/1974.
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Published: 01 Jan 1974
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Mount Painter district (the Gunsight Joint Venture Project). Individual licence's progress reports and annual reports to project licences' joint full surrender, for the period 1/12/1982 to 16/11/1993.
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Gunsight and Yudnamutana. Quarterly and annual reports for the period 25/5/79 to 30/8/83.
A sequence of exploration programs in the Mount Painter Province, undertaken on Special Mining Leases since 1965, have been previously released. Exploration for base metals, gold, uranium and REE since 1974, in an area extending 50 km southwest from...-
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Willouran Ranges Stratiform Copper Project. Quarterly, annual and surrender reports for the period 4/4/79 to 19/7/83.
An ongoing work programme has included the latter stages of: the drilling of over 180 percussion and diamond holes totalling 24,388 m, the collection and assaying of 35,000 geochemical samples, preparation of 1150 petrographic descriptions, and...-
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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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Blinman, Maggie Hill and Martins Well. Quarterly, six-monthly, annual and technical reports for the period 19/12/1989 to 8/9/1999.
PEL 41 was granted to a deliberately SA-based new venture exploration company consisting of Chairman and well-known Emeritus Professor of Geology Eric Rudd, four other founding honorary and unsalaried directors, and 100 or so individual speculative...-
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Stuart Shelf Project. EL 1338 first [and Project second overall] partial surrender report, for the period 2/5/1975 to 16/6/1991.
TARGET: Possible buried base and precious metal deposits associated with aeromagnetic anomalies, and also with either coincident or unrelated gravity anomalies, lying within a relinquished sector of the large contiguous multi-licence area that Western...-
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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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Plumbago. Partial surrender report for the Crocker Well and Radium Hill areas, for the period 23/9/1976 to 12/3/1981.
Intensive shallow RAB and percussion pattern drilling of highly sheared and deformed Early Proterozoic granitoid rocks, seeking economic, low grade but large tonnage Rossing style deposits of vein-type uranium ore, particularly in association with a...-
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Published: 12 Mar 1981
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RB 2021/00015 LA-ICP-MS detrital zircon geochronology from the Delamerian Orogen.
A geochronological study of clastic metasedimentary units buried in the Delamerian Orogen region of South Australia has been undertaken to gain a better understanding of the age and provenance of these units and to assess their similarities to...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2021
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RB 71/00178 Explanatory Notes for the COPLEY 1:250 000 geological map.
The COPLEY 1:250 000 map area includes the northern Flinders Ranges and the southern part of the Willouran Ranges. It is bounded to the west by the Lake Torrens Sunkland and, to the east, by the Lake Frome Plains. A thick sequence of older Precambrian...-
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Published: 08 Nov 1971
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Stuart Shelf and Andamooka Opalfields (the Stuart Shelf Joint Venture Project) . Progress reports to licences' expiry/renewal, for the period 16/1/1981 to 16/6/1986. [ Index Part 1 of 3 ].
The continuation of copper-gold exploration across the Stuart Shelf region, as part of a newly indentured joint venture project involving Western Mining Corp. (WMC) and British Petroleum (BP), has remained based on the acquisition of detailed ground...-
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RB 2014/00005 WINTINNA, South Australia, [geological map] sheet SG53-14. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 000 Series - Explanatory Notes.
The WINTINNA 1:250 000 mapsheet area lies between latitudes 27° to 28° South and longitudes 133°30’ to 135°00’ East. This ~16 400 square km area includes the Marla and Cadney Park settlements, and is crossed by the Stuart Highway and Adelaide to...-
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Published: 01 Mar 2015
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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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Port Pirie. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 20/4/1977 to 19/4/1979.
Concerted exploration for possible stratiform Mount Gunson type or epithermal Olympic Dam type base metal deposits, on the south-eastern edge of the Stuart Shelf near Port Pirie, was begun by North Broken Hill Ltd in response to the public release by...-
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Domes and diapirs, mineral exploration, Central Flinders Zone, Adelaide Geosyncline.
This paper synthesizes the findings of Frontier's exploratory efforts over the past three years, and makes recommendations for an ongoing exploration programme following and consequent to the economically unsuccessful outcome of drilling Blinman nos 1...-
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Bob Nob prospect, Mount Painter district. Progress and final reports to claim option relinquishment, for the period 2/6/1968 to 1/10/1969.
Investigation of reported radiometric anomalies associated with sub-economic iron mineralisation at the Bob Nob prospect, which is situated approximately 8 miles north-west of Arkaroola Homestead, has comprised ground magnetics and scintillometry with...-
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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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