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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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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Red Range (part of the Copley Project). Annual reports for the period 8/10/2007 to 7/10/2018.
A small area located 45 km north-east of Leigh Creek, which covers the sites of numerous small historic diggings made by prospectors searching for copper and lead-zinc-silver mineralisation, is now being explored afresh for possible economic...-
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Published: 17 Nov 1917
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South Puttapa. Progress and final summary reports for the period 15/7/1970 to 16/7/1971.
Appraisal of the Beltana zinc deposit continued during the current licence period, principally by diamond drilling (6 holes, total 2570 feet) aimed at delineating blind extensions to the main orebody on its southern side. The drilling was very...-
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Data release - as updated : Castle Rock. Annual reports to licence full surrender, for the period 17/3/2009 to 14/1/2016.
Exploration for possible economic concealed Beltana mine type stratabound lead-zinc-(silver) mineralisation, and for other diapiric and associated basic igneous intrusion - related base metal and/or gold occurrences, was carried out over a small area...-
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Published: 20 Jan 1916
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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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Wirrealpa. Progress, partial surrender and final reports to licence surrender for the period 13/11/1978 to 26/2/1988.
Economic deposits of Mississippi Valley type stratabound lead-zinc mineralisation within in Cambrian limestones were the targets of exploration undertaken on and near the Wirrealpa Diapir. A preliminary field reconnaissance had shown that surface...-
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Beltana mine area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 27/9/1982 to 8/12/1987.
Renewed exploration by E-Z of the area surrounding the Beltana zinc mine has investigated the possibility for finding deep, unweathered Cambrian or Proterozoic carbonate-hosted zinc-lead sulphide mineralisation. It was considered that this target had...-
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Geochemical mapping of a copper mineral system, Lyndhurst area (for the ARC North Project). Final report, Project ADI RD01-126 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 1, 2021].
As a part of searching for economic deposits of sediment-hosted copper (SHC) mineralisation that might have formed within rocks of the Adelaide Rift Complex Neoproterozoic sedimentation sequence occupying an area located due east of Lyndhurst in the...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Hedley Hill. Annual reports submitted until the commencement of joint reporting for the six Lake Torrens Project licences, for the period 26/5/1997 to 25/5/2000.
Exploration Licence 2340 “Hedley Hill” is located adjacent to the northeast extremity of Lake Torrens. During the 80’s and 90’s exploration of the Lake Torrens district has had the prime objective of the discovery of an "Olympic Dam" style deposit...-
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Published: 20 Jul 1900
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RB 2007/00006 The geology and mineral potential of the PORT AUGUSTA [mapsheet] area, eastern Gawler Craton.
The PORT AUGUSTA 1:250,000 mapsheet area covers the north-eastern part of the Eyre Peninsula, the northern Spencer Gulf and the south-western Flinders Ranges, and extends from latitude 32°00'S to 33°00'S and longitude 136°30'S to 138°00'S. The main...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2007
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RB 2001/00003 Sandstone dimension stone in South Australia - Results of geological reconnaissance, 1998 and 1999.
Sandstone as a building material was used extensively in Adelaide and regional South Australia from the founding of the colony until the end of World War II. However, since 1945 the industry has declined steadily, with closure of many quarries, until...-
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Published: 01 Feb 2001
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RB 2014/00006 Geology of the Cultana 1:100 000 map sheet (6432).
The revised digital geology map of the Cultana 1:100 000 map sheet and accompanying geological descriptions in this report are the first components of the 2nd edition PORT AUGUSTA 1:250 000 map sheet to be completed. The subject map sheet occupies the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2014
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Beltana - Aroona region. Progress reports and technical reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 16/7/1971 to 15/7/1972.
Continuing prospect exploration work at the Beltana zinc orebody discovery has consisted of detailed geological mapping at 1:4 800 scale, rock chip sampling of outcropping Adelaidean and Cambrian sediments, field investigation of microgravity...-
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Special Mining Leases nos 153, 153A and 153B; Mineral Claim nos 5092 and 5350. Summary report for the period 10/7/1967 to 16/7/1971.
This report summarises, in categoric fashion, all of the various exploratory and mine development activities carried out over the past four years on the broader Puttapa area exploration licence (as renewed), and within the mineral claims taken out...-
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Ediacara. Annual and final reports to licence expiry, for the period 14/7/1992 to 13/7/1997.
Possible Century or Neves-Corvo style stratabound and barite - associated, thinly bedded lead-zinc-copper sulphide/sulphate mineralisation existing in Late Precambrian to Lower Palaeozoic marine sediments of the Adelaide Geosyncline, was the target of...-
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Published: 14 Apr 1999
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Mount Roebuck. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 1/11/1973 to 31/10/1974.
An area located approximately 57 km east of Beltana was taken up to explore for possible economic hydrothermal/stratabound, replacement-type base and precious metal deposits in Neoproterozoic Callanna Group diapiric breccias and rafted dolomitic...-
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Sundown Creek. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 3/10/1977 to 2/10/1979.
Exploration undertaken in an area of practically no outcrop that is situated north and north-west of the Ediacara Range, on the eastern side of Lake Torrens, has aimed primarily at investigating the mineral potential of a large, low amplitude...-
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Published: 26 May 1980
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Interpreted basement geology to the Murray Basin and surrounds.
The purpose of this interpretation is to provide an initial framework for the basement to the Murray Basin upon which to plan the Geological Survey of South Australia’s MinEx CRC National Drilling Initiative drilling project targeting the Delamerian...-
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Published: 07 Jul 2020
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Mount Uro. Progress, partial surrender [and ?final] reports to licence surrender for the period 29/4/1984 to 26/2/1987.
Adelaidean and Cambrian calcareous clastic rocks of the Angepena region were investigated for possible economic epigenetic base and precious metal mineralisation that may be related to syn-depositional faulting, as well as for stratiform and...-
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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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