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Wallaroo and Moonta mines and smelters, Yorke's [sic] Peninsula, South Australia. History, nature and methods.
A detailed account of the large scale copper mining and processing operations occurring in the 'Copper Triangle' region of South Australia in the few years following the end of the First World War. The included metrics and pictorial coverage of many...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1921
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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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Kangaroo Island North. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 20/4/1972 to 19/4/1973.
An area of 100 square km, located 45 km west of Kingscote, was taken to enable follow-up exploration of some anomalous stream sediment geochemical sample values in lead (to a maximum 3200 ppm Pb) previously discovered by Elcor (Australia) Pty Ltd, but...-
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Published: 10 Jan 1973
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Mount Bayley. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 22/7/1971 to 21/7/1972.
A small area located 15 km north-east of Beltana was explored for possible economic stratabound or epigenetic/hydrothermal base metal deposits associated with Adelaidean and Cambrian calcareous/dolomitic strata and Willouran diapiric structures. Work...-
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Keyneton. Progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 6/8/1973 to 17/4/1974.
Continuing geological, geochemical, petrographic and ground magnetic work was done by AAP along 26 sampling profiles to try to unravel possible stratigraphic and tectonic controls on known base metal mineralisation at the Royal Keyneton and Hope mine...-
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RB 54/00075 Ediacara silver-lead-copper Mineral Field. (Mineralisation investigation) Progress report no. 1.
Lead and copper mineralisation occurs in rocks of Cambrian age in the Ediacara Mineral Field. Rich pockets of ore minerals of limited extent occur in the Transition beds and in the overlying carbonates, associated with breccias or turbidites....-
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Published: 19 Mar 1962
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RB 90/00078 South Australia - Exploration Towards 2000. Seminar, Adelaide, 13 December, 1990. Extended abstracts.
A seminar designed to heighten industry interest in South Australia as a place in which to search for minerals and petroleum was organised by the Department of Mines and Energy at the Australian Mineral Foundation on 13 December 1990. A number of data...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1990
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Ooloo mine prospect. Progress reports to licence expiry for the period 23/10/1969 to 22/10/1970.
14 lines of grid-based IP and resistivity profiling were carried out at the abandoned Ooloo silver-lead mine by contractor McPhar Geophysics, to try to detect any possible subsurface extensions of the mineralised lodes under alluvial cover. Several...-
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Published: 05 Oct 1970
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Mines in Burnside - their historical significance.
This report on the history and condition of the abandoned pioneer silver-lead mines at Glen Osmond on Adelaide's eastern outskirts was prepared for the Burnside suburban council to allow it to make an informed discussion about the possibility of...-
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Parndana. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/10/2006 to 26/10/2008.
Exploration for possible economic stratiform/syngenetic base metal deposits and/or structurally controlled epithermal/hydrothermal gold and uranium occurrences within Lower Cambrian metasediments over the central section of Kangaroo Island included...-
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Published: 22 Apr 1909
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Giles Nob. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/7/1983 to 7/7/1988.
Exploration for possible economic gold deposits in an area located approximately 25 km south of Olary addressed three principal objectives: . hydrothermally-sourced gold within quartz-albite-dolomite vein stockworks formed in phyllitic siltstones of...-
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Tallaringa and Mount Igy (the Tallaringa JV Project). Joint annual reports to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 18/1/2009 to 6/2/2015.
During the 2009-2010 project joint reporting year, the following activities occurred: - the conduct of an Aboriginal heritage work area clearance survey in the northern part of EL 3485 Tallaringa by the Antakarinja Land Management Council Native...-
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Data release - as updated : Statton Hill (part of the Baratta Project). Annual reports, first partial surrender report and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 8/10/2007 to 14/1/2016.
Copper and gold exploration has been conducted within an area centred about 80 km east of Hawker, which it was thought had potential for epigenetic vein style mineralisation within buried Adelaidean sandstone and shale strata, formed in a stratabound...-
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Published: 19 Jan 1916
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Pinda Springs. First annual and final report for the period 19/4/2002 to 18/4/2003.
Possible extensions to historic workings for lead, gold and copper in the Pinda Springs area, 55 km south-east from Copley, were tested by a limited programme of rock chip sampling and panning of creek sediments. Mineralised veins with visible galena...-
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Mount Olinthus. Annual report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 6/3/1995 to 5/3/1996.
Base metal mineralisation, indicated by newly discovered shafts at the historic Atkinson Pb-Ag-Cu-Zn mine, was the impetus for exploration in the upland area 20 km north-west from Cowell. Grab samples collected from shafts, stockpiles and dumps varied...-
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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 - as updated : Maitland (the Yorke Peninsula Copper Project). Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/8/2008 to 24/8/2017.
An area of the western Yorke Peninsula, comprising three separate sub-blocks, was taken up to explore for possible economic buried IOCG-U deposits similar to those at Hillside (located 25 km to the east of sub-block 'B'), Olympic Dam, Prominent Hill...-
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Published: 18 Oct 1917
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Wheal Ellen prospect. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 26/8/2004 to 25/8/2009.
The Wheal Ellen prospect situated at the centre of EL 3232 is named after the historical lead-zinc-silver mine which was worked there, primarily in the 1850s. Numerous other old shallow workings are also present along strike and in beds running...-
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Published: 29 Sep 1909
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The Hummocks. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 30/6/2009 to 17/8/2017.
EL 4278 was Southern Uranium's first mineral exploration foray into the northern Yorke Peninsula. The subject tenement was pegged in January 2009 in order to secure ground surrounding the northern reaches of the Pine Point Fault. This particular...-
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Published: 31 Aug 1917
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Double. Annual reports for the period 24/11/2005 to 28/9/2018.
Exploration is being conducted for possible buried economic iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineral deposit targets within the south-central Gawler Ranges. During the first licence year, Minotaur's activities focussed on completing a...-
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Published: 22 Nov 1912
