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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 Gunson - Pernatty. Quarterly reports and annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/2/1987 to 15/4/1994.
Ongoing copper exploration in the Mount Gunson area was directed primarily at locating economic stratiform mineralisation in the Tapley Hill Formation, which overlies Pandurra Formation and the associated Cattlegrid orebody. New work comprised...-
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Jenner Hill, Pearson Hill and Sandy Point (the Stuart Shelf JV Project). Joint progress reports, plus later annual reports and final report to full surrender of remnant licence EL 1808, for the overall period 4/10/1989 to 24/10/1996.
Exploration for Olympic Dam-style mineralisation, undertaken over an area centred ~15 km south-east of Arcoona Homestead on the Stuart Shelf, which includes WMC's formerly partly tested Emmie Bluff prospect, has comprised the acquisition of ground...-
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RB 35/00042 Nairne pyrite milled on a pilot scale. Iron sulphides concentrated in a flotation pilot plant operated by the South Australian Department of Mines.
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Published: 01 Jan 1953
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RB 60/00060;Amdel 00398 SADM / Amdel Project 1/1/76 : Review of lead and copper-smelting operations - sale of concentrates.
This report is complementary to an Amdel report in preparation entitled “Review of Lead Smelting Operations” and to a similar report on copper smelting operations which will be prepared at a later date. When concentrates are not smelted by the company...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1965
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RB 84/00018 Amdel 00955 Notes on the treatment of copper ore and tailings (Amdel report no. 955).
Processes suitable for use by small scale mining operations are discussed in detail. Covers methods of treatment for oxidized ores, sulphide ores and mixed sulphide oxide ores, marketing and economics.-
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Published: 01 Sep 1973
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An atlas of geochemical dispersion around the Cattlegrid orebody.
Geochemical indicators to buried stratabound copper mineralisation in the Cattlegrid orebody were studied in their primary and secondary dispersion patterns within the overburden, to try to elucidate the likely most effective elements and the possible...-
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The Kapunda mine, 1842 - 1912.
The subject report, drawing on numerous contemporary accounts, sketches and photographs of the historic Kapunda copper mine, clearly demonstrates that despite this mine being much smaller and earlier than the better-known 'monster' Burra mine, its...-
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Archaeological survey of the Wallaroo copper smelters, Wallaroo, South Australia.
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Cattlegrid copper deposit and Cattlegrid open pit mine. Summary reports on mining geology, mine production history and onsite ore milling, for the period March 1972 to October 1984.
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Mount Gunson Copper Project. Ore treatment mill throughput - monthly summary reports for the period August 1974 to June 1984.
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Published: 28 Jun 1984
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Boolcoomata, Macdonald Hill, Mingary, Bulloo South / Bulloo Creek, Drew Hill and Wompinie (the Drew Hill Project). Separate and joint annual reports for the period 30/9/2003 to 9/1/2008.
Three adjacent but separate exploration licences, ELs 3136, 3137 and 3138, together covering 491 square km of ground located north-east of Olary and also surrounding Mingary, were initially granted to Exco Resources NL (Exco) at the end of September...-
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Mount Miccollo, Tin Hut Hill, Eurilla Dam, Wilcherry Hill, Uno, Peterlumbo and Mount Double (the Wilcherry Hill Project). Joint annual reports for the period 1/11/2002 to 31/10/2018.
During Year 6 of the project, Trafford Resources designed their drilling program to test the extent of the Pb/Zn/Ag/U mineralisation at the Telephone Dam Prospect, while JV partners Ironclad Mining’s drilling program was designed to define the Direct...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Woods (part of the Mount Woods Joint Venture Project). Annual reports for the period 19/12/2000 to 30/1/2011. [ Index Part 2 of 2 ].
During the 2006 reporting period for renewed Mount Woods EL 3518 (i.e. for licence Year 6), Goldstream conducted ongoing exploration that included campaigns of diamond, RC, RAB and AC drilling, plus, in relation to the possible iron ore / copper-gold...-
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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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Data package : Research into the treatment of oxide and low grade copper ores. Amdel progress reports and final reports for the period October 1964 to October 1977.
A research project to determine the leaching behaviour of oxidised copper ores at laboratory scale was undertaken by Amdel at the request of the South Australian Department of Mines. The trials took place using sulphuric acid lixiviant acting on the...-
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Mount Gunson Project. Cattlegrid mine : ore grade control mining / milling management reports and data for the period July 1975 to August 1983.
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Interim report on mapping of surficial materials in ELs 113 and 114.
The Kapunda region is principally one in which prolonged denudation, or lowering of the landsurface, has been operative over the past 100 Ma, while the present topographic amplitude of the region is also at its greatest since the onset of the...-
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Chimpering Rock Hole, Lake Tallacootra, Pybung and Chundaria (the BARTON base and precious metals project). Annual reports for the periods 25/7/1992 to 24/7/1994, and 30/12/1994 to 29/12/1996.
In 1993 the SA Government flew a regional aeromagnetic survey over the western Gawler Craton as part of the South Australian Exploration Initiative, which prompted North Ltd to change direction with its BARTON area exploration programme, to address...-
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Published: 13 Mar 1997
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Menninnie Dam (part of the Fleurieu - Menninnie Dam Exploration Joint Venture Project). Combined annual report for the 5-year period 24/9/2005 to 26/10/2010, plus annual reports for the period 27/10/2010 to 26/10/2012.
During the 5-year period 2005-2010, intensified exploration undertaken at Menninnie Dam was focussed on the discovery and delineation of structurally controlled hydrothermal Pb-Zn-Ag mineralisation. Carbonate-rich Hutchison Group metasediments forming...-
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