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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 5 partnership DPY5-17 - Adelaide Fold Belt - Mount Elkington area stratiform copper mineral deposits. Project interim and final reports.
A PACE Initiative Year 5 partly subsidised drilling programme consisting of fourteen RC holes and 3 diamond holes, for a total of 60 m of rotary mud, 2233 m of RC percussion and 888.55 m of diamond core drill penetration, was completed at Helix...-
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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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Mundy Creek (part of the Copley Project). Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 17/12/2008 to 16/12/2015.
A small area centred ~30 km north-northeast of Leigh Creek and the central Telford Basin coalfields, has been explored for possible economic diapir-related stratabound occurrences of base metals and gold. During the first licence year, the only...-
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Published: 19 Feb 1916
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Mount Craig, Mount Caernarvon, Mount Havelock, Red Range and Mount Plantagenet (the Torrens Project). Joint annual reports plus a final report submitted at the full surrender of the last remaining project licences, for the period 16/9/2012 to 22/11/2019.
A group of five contiguous licences originally covering a total area of 756 square km in the south-central Flinders Ranges region, situated east-northeast of Hawker and east of the Elder Range, have been explored for possible economic buried...-
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Published: 26 Nov 1919
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Breaden Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/11/1967 to 12/11/1969.
Evaluation of possible commercial, buried stratiform copper deposits in the Willouran Ranges south of Marree was the objective of geological mapping, geochemical sampling and shallow drilling undertaken by Noranda. Their interest in the region was...-
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Mount Craig Copper Project. Final report for June to December 2021 geophysical and drilling program, Project ADI RD02-268 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2021].
An area centred ~28 km east of Hawker is being explored for possible buried epigenetic/hydrothermal, skarn style and sediment-hosted stratabound base and precious metals mineralisation that may have formed within prepared Adelaidean metasedimentary...-
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Published: 02 Nov 1921
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Nilpinna Homestead area (part of the Australian Diamond Exploration joint venture). Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/1/1980 to 22/2/1987.
Diamond exploration undertaken in the Peake and Denison Ranges included the acquisition and processing of aerial magnetic, radiometric and heliborne magnetic and VLF-EM surveys, with follow-up ground magnetic and Sirotem surveys, plus extensive...-
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Arkaroola (part of the Wooltana Joint Venture project). Progress and final reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 19/5/1971 to 18/5/1973.
Continuing exploration of the basal Neoproterozoic sedimentary sequence in the north-eastern Flinders Ranges for possible economic stratiform/stratabound Kapunda or Blinman - type copper mineralisation has concentrated on detailed 1:1200 and 1:4800...-
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ExpNotes WINTINNA: Explanatory Notes WINTINNA
A new generation, first edition WINTINNA 1:250 000 scale geological map and explanatory notes have been published. These documents represent the conclusion of the Geological Survey of South Australia's geological mapping program undertaken in the...-
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Copley and Wearing Gorge areas. Joint annual reports to licences' surrender, for the period 18/6/2007 to 1/11/2011.
Several small areas in the vicinity of the Mount Coffin Diapir, which covers ~5 square km within the north-central Flinders Ranges immediately to the south-east of Copley, have been explored with the hope of finding additional copper resources near...-
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Published: 05 Sep 1911
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Mount Elkington. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 25/6/2007 to 25/5/2011.
An area surrounding the historic copper-mining town of Blinman in the central-northern Flinders Ranges has been explored for possible economic diapir-related copper mineralisation, similar to that encountered nearby at the formerly significant Blinman...-
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Published: 20 Jul 1911
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Copley (part of the Copley Project). Annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 8/4/2009 to 9/6/2015.
A small area located immediately east of Leigh Creek and the Copley and southern Telford basins' coalfields, has been explored for possible economic diapir-related stratabound occurrences of base metals and gold. During the first licence year, the...-
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Published: 12 Aug 1915
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Bibliando (part of the Baratta Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/4/2009 to 7/4/2021.
Copper and gold exploration is being conducted within a small area centred about 100 km east of Hawker, which it is thought has potential for epigenetic vein style mineralisation within buried Adelaidean sandstone and shale strata in a stratabound...-
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Published: 12 Aug 1915
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Willouran Hill. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 29/8/2006 to 28/8/2013.
A large area centred ~25 km south-west of Marree has been explored for possible buried economic stratiform / stratabound base metals in the basal Adelaidean Callanna Group and overlying Neoproterozoic metasediments, including possible sedimentary...-
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Published: 26 Jul 1913
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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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Mount McCallum, Mount Morris and Mount Roebuck (part of Flinders Ranges Project). Combined first annual report, plus progress and final reports to licences' expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/5/2005 to 22/5/2008.
Neoproterozoic glacial sedimentary units in the intramontane basinal valley located east of Leigh Creek and Copley, which were considered likely to contain possible geologically suitable palaeo-depositional sites for secondary uranium mineralisation...-
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Published: 16 Jun 1908
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-41, Adelaide Fold Belt stratabound copper mineral prospects. Project final report.
Using a new exploration model for predicting the setting of copper deposits in the Adelaide Fold Belt, where there has been little significant metallic mineral exploration for many years, Copper Range's chosen initial exploration targets have been...-
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Published: 27 Nov 1906
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Eurelia - Carrieton area. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 1/11/1976 to 31/10/1977.
Exploration near Carrieton for possible economic stratiform copper deposits hosted by metasediments at the base of the Adelaidean System, as the culmination to a 9-year long programme carried over from Utah's former EL 137 and six prior tenements...-
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Finniss Springs. Progress reports for the period 27/5/80 to 26/1/83.
Base metal exploration carried out 70 km west and south-west of Marree, to investigate the potential for Olympic Dam - type mineralisation in concealed pre-Adelaidean rocks, has included geochemical rock chip and water sampling, an aerial radiometric...-
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Published: 21 Feb 1983
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Teatree Well. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 5/1/1984 to 4/1/1986.
Exploration for possible fault-related epigenetic lead-zinc deposits formed in calcareous rocks outcropping along the Mount John - Arrowie fault system, to the south-east of the Moro mine, has included extensive stream sediment and rock chip sampling...-
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