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Lilydale. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report : progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal over a much reduced area, for the period 5/1/1988 to 4/1/1993.
Initial exploration carried out near Lilydale Homestead, 80 kilometres south-east of Yunta, targeted possible Starra-style gold in the Braemar Ironstone facies. Flying of an airborne semi-detailed magnetic and radiometric survey identified magnetic...-
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RB 98/00003 Review of the Proterozoic geology and mineral potential of the Curnamona Province in South Australia.
The Curnamona Province is exposed in the Willyama, Mt Painter and Mt Babbage Inliers, but much is obscured by younger sedimentary cover. It comprises a late Palaeoproterozoic metasedimentary and metavolcanic succession (Willyama Supergroup) with some...-
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Published: 02 Feb 1998
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RB 98/00022 Review of open file company exploration data from the early 1980s to mid-1997, over the Yunta, Winnininnie, Anabama and Oakvale 1:100 000 map sheets, OLARY 1:250 000 map sheet, South Australia.
Significant exploration focussed on: · stratabound 'Telfer-style' gold in Adelaidean metasediments in the Nackara Arc, using stratiform or stratabound structurally-controlled genetic models; and structurally controlled gold and base metal...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1997
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-03, Blue Rose mineral prospect Target 1 - porphyry style Cu-Au-Mo. Project final report.
Remodelling and re-interpretation of the geological and geophysical signatures of the Blue Rose prospect by the EL 2938 Joint Venture has indicated good potential for discovering a large porphyry copper-gold deposit at depth, beneath historical...-
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Published: 16 May 1906
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-02, Blue Rose mineral prospect Target 2 - replacement type, Manto style Cu-Au sulphide. Project final report.
The Blue Rose prospect on EL 2938 is being explored for replacement type, Manto - style Cu-Au sulphide vein bodies in receptive host rocks adjacent to intrusive dykes and stocks inferred to exist on the northern side of the Anabama granite pluton...-
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Published: 15 May 1906
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 5 partnership DPY5-05 - Netley Hill porphyry style Cu-Mo mineral prospect. Project final report.
Remodelling and re-interpretation of the geological and geophysical signatures of the Netley Hill prospect by the EL 3848 Joint Venture has indicated good potential for discovering a large porphyry copper-gold deposit at depth, beneath historical...-
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Published: 14 May 1908
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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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Data release - as updated : Goode Hill. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/6/2002 to 28/8/2015.
Exploration of an area of Neoproterozoic metasedimentary rocks bordering, and in part intruded by, Ordovician plutons of the Anabama felsic intrusive complex, has targeted possible analogues to the Blue Rose copper-gold skarn mineralisation...-
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Published: 04 Nov 1915
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Lilydale, SA. Progress report and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/4/1969 to 31/3/1971.
An airborne scintillometer reconnaissance with ground-based follow-up, a geochemical study of groundwater, and open-hole rotary mud drilling (10 vertical holes, total 3205 feet) plus downhole wireline geophysical logging failed to locate significant...-
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Wiawera. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/12/1996 to 12/12/2001.
Exploration for possible sheeted vein type gold, Telfer - style gold, and BIF hosted gold and base metal sulphide deposits that may have formed in Adelaidean metasediments occupying the area between Anabama and Radium Hill, 10-30 km south-east of...-
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Cronje Dam. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/8/1979 to 29/11/1984.
Continuing exploration for possible hydrothermal or epithermal base metal and precious metal deposits, within an area centred 60 km south-west of Olary, at the outset targeted some previously identified geochemical anomalies, principally via shallow...-
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Anabama Hill. Prospectivity report and data review for the period 2/1/1980 to 14/7/1980.
A memo received from Asarco's Arizona-based geologist Mr J H Courtright (27 December 1978) drew the attention of that company's Perth office staff to the similarities between the Anabama breccia pipes, which he had seen during a visit to the prospect...-
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Published: 14 Jul 1980
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Wadnaminga, Manna Hill, Mount Victor, Yunta and Outalpa (the Olary JV Project, later renamed the Blue Rose Project). Joint annual reports for the period 3/4/1997 to 18/7/2008.
A group of five adjoining exploration licences covering ~3300 square km situated along the southern flank of the Proterozoic Curnamona Craton (Olary Block) and the adjoining Nackara Arc of the Adelaide Geosyncline is being explored for possible...-
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Data release - as updated : Florieton. Annual reports to the commencement of project licences' joint reporting, plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 5/11/2007 to 18/2/2015.
During initial exploration of the Florieton area, located approximately 40 km south-east of Burra, the compilation and reprocessing of available gravity and magnetic data were used to interpret the bedrock geology hidden under a widespread 150-200 m...-
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Goode Hill (the Anabama Project). Fifth partial surrender report, for the period 27/6/2002 to 26/6/2014.
Two portions of two licence sub-blocks, together totalling 35 square km or ~26.3% of the former area, have been relinquished from a long-running tenement which is centred ~40 km south of Olary. This licence was taken up by Adelaide Exploration to...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Devonborough Downs (part of the Olary Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 22/10/2007 to 21/10/2012.
An area centred ~30 km south-east of Olary township is being explored for possible buried economic porphyry copper-gold deposits, as well as for any other substantial either Carlin-type, skarn-hosted, Telfer-style, or mesothermal gold mineralisation....-
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Published: 16 Nov 1912
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Anabama. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 16/4/1993 to 15/4/1998.
RC drilling (22 holes, total 1322 m) was carried out at the historic Anabama and White Rock copper prospects, 60 km south-east of Mannahill. A resource of 4.2 Mt @ 0.52% Cu was inferred within an oxidised zone present above 80 m depth, but subsequent...-
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Jubilee Dam. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 4/3/1997 to 3/3/2001.
Regional calcrete geochemical sampling was carried out in the Mutooroo - Anabama area in a search for precious and base metals. Initial surface calcrete sampling at several prospects was followed by auger drill sampling to depths up to 2 m on an...-
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Published: 28 May 1901
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Cronje Dam. Combined first annual/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/12/1995 to 17/12/1997.
No new work was done. A partial relinquishment of 41% of the original licence area was made in December 1996. A desktop assessment made of the licence area's prospectivity consisted of a review of available aeromagnetic, radiometric and TM data,...-
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Amdel Ltd project - Fluid inclusion studies of South Australian ores, rocks and minerals. Progress reports nos 1 to 6 for the period 7/5/1976 to 3/4/1980.
In September 1975 the South Australian Department of Mines accepted a proposal from Amdel Ltd to purchase and set up some microthermometry apparatus, in order to commence fluid inclusion studies of selected rock types and minerals in South Australia....-
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