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Bendigo Station. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 6/8/1987 to 5/8/1992.
Copper and gold exploration comprising outcrop, stream sediment and soil geochemical sampling, and the conduct of ground magnetic and IP surveys, plus RC percussion (67 vertical holes, total 6624 m) and diamond cored tail drilling (in 2 holes, total...-
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Published: 02 Jul 1992
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The Mount Grainger JV Project with Rio Tinto, and the Nackara Arc JV Project with Range River Gold. Progress reports and combined annual reports to the cessation of these joint ventures, for the period 16/6/1999 to 31/1/2006.
The 5 tenements cover 3240km2 of pastoral grazing land centred approximately 45 km northeast of Peterborough within the Orroroo SI54-01 and Olary SI54-02 1:250 000 sheets, in north central South Australia. The Mt Grainger Project Area lies within the...-
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Mount Grainger (Oodla Wirra). Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/10/1970 to 7/10/1971.
Extensive literature and geological and geochemical field investigations of historic mines and prospects at the Mount Grainger and Oodla Wirra Goldfields have failed to disclose any remaining economic gold occurrences. The sparse native gold occurs...-
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Published: 12 Oct 1971
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Mount Grainger (part of the Mount Grainger JV Project). Annual reports for the period 25/10/1996 to 24/10/2000.
Exploration over a structurally complex part of the Nackara Arc region centred ~30 km north-east of Peterborough has sought economic Telfer-type gold deposits hosted within folded domal structures in Adelaidean strata, which have been intruded during...-
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Siccus River area. Progress reports for the period 1/8/1969 to 31/7/1971.
Surface geochemical sampling and inspections of known historic old copper workings in the vicinity of the Yednalue Dome, north of Carrieton, were inconclusive for accurately detecting further buried supergene mineralisation, or for establishing...-
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Published: 14 Sep 1971
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Hope Bank. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 6/1/1987 to 6/9/1988.
TARGET: Telfer-style gold in the Wabricoola area, NW of Yunta. EXPLORATION: Image processing of BMR airborne magnetic survey data, and detailed stream sediment (452) and soil (110) geochemical sampling. RESULTS: Anomalous low order gold values that...-
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Published: 25 Aug 1988
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Minburra. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 23/11/1990 to 5/11/1991.
TARGET: Gold and base metals in the Belton - Paratoo area, NE of Orroroo. EXPLORATION: Reconnaissance geological mapping and rock chip (23) geochemical sampling of areas identified by a remote sensing (thematic mapping) study. RESULTS: No follow-up...-
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Published: 03 Apr 1992
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Paratoo. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/3/1988 to 30/2/1990.
TARGET: Possible economic, open-pit mineable stratiform low grade gold and copper deposits within Adelaidean units of the Nackara Arc, in an area lying west of and including Yunta. EXPLORATION: A detailed geological field reconnaissance, review of...-
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Published: 19 May 1990
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Ulooloo. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 29/7/1986 to 6/3/1989.
TARGET: Economic fine-grained, Telfer style gold mineralisation occurring as syngenetic stratabound deposits formed in sedimentary basins during or soon after periods of basin subsidence and instability. The eastern limb of the large, overturned...-
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Published: 22 Feb 1989
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Report on geological investigations in the Mundallio North Anomalous area SML 346.
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Published: 01 Jan 1971
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RB 67/00073 Mineral exploration of the Mount Grainger Diapir.
Five hundred drainage geochemical samples were collected in an area of 16½ square miles over the Mount Grainger Diapir and surrounding country rock, during February and March 1963. Results of this survey outlined an extensive copper, lead, zinc...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1970
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RB 65/00035 Clare Regional Geochemical Project.
This investigation was a feasibility study, therefore environmental factors are dealt with in much more detail than would be necessary in a routine geochemical report. Apparently these factors has little significant effect on the results. Spot...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1967
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RB 70/00107 Report on the Wheal Motley copper prospect, Manunda 1:63 360 sheet - A. Tiver.
Unworked mine reveals copper of limited extent laterally occurring as minor narrow veins and impregnations of malachite and azurite in interbedded quartzite and pebbly siltstone. Copper carbonates may have formed from sparsely dispersed sulphides in...-
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Published: 20 Jul 1970
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RB 73/00004 Investigation of the Anabama copper and molybdenum prospect, Olary Wadnaminga.
Stream sediment sampling, induced polarization surveys and a 44 drill hole rotary drilling program were undertaken over the Anabama Granite. The granite was found to be unmineralized except for greisened portions containing anomalous copper and...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1973
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RB 62/00084 Mount Grainger gold mine.
The main source of historical gold production at Mount Grainger has been a zone of hydrothermal wall rock alteration in the lower part of the Appila Tillite. This zone of alteration or sericitization, where a stable illite/mica mineral formed, has...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1968
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Nackara. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 24/9/1984 to 12/9/1986.
Exploration for possible economic buried stratabound Telfer - style gold mineralisation or placer gold deposits which could have formed in Adelaidean glacial sediments in the Nackara district, as well as for base metal and/or diamond mineralisation,...-
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Leighton. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/3/2010 to 14/3/2014.
A small area centred ~18 km west-northwest of Burra has been explored for possible buried primary porphyry type copper-gold mineralisation, and also for small scale secondary copper carbonate deposits of Burra style. Reprocessing of existing...-
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Paratoo. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 4/11/1996 to 3/5/1998.
1:40,000 scale geological mapping and soil geochemical sampling performed in the vicinity of the Paratoo copper mine, 300 km north-east of Adelaide, demonstrated both structural and lithological controls to known mineralisation. Stored historic...-
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Great Gladstone. Annual and final reports for the period 26/4/96 to 2/1/98.
Base metal and gold exploration was carried out near the Great Gladstone Mine, approximately 15 km southeast of Quorn. Preliminary rock chip samples obtained within a north - plunging anticline were anomalous for Cu and Ba, and one barite / haematite...-
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Published: 21 Dec 1997
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Eurelia. Progress and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 30/10/1969 to 29/7/1971.
An exploration licence area covering 120 square miles in the vicinity of the Eurelia Anticline was taken up by Utah Development to search for possible economic Zambian Copperbelt-style stratiform copper deposits within upper Adelaidean metasedimentary...-
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