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Mount Davidson. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 12/9/1979 to 6/11/1980.
A tenement area stretching for about 65 km eastwards from Hawker was taken up to explore for possible economic Cattlegrid-style base metal sulphides associated with a Neoproterozoic black shale sedimentary environment. Residual soils covering the...-
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Published: 16 Jan 1981
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Waukaringa. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 27/11/1970 to 26/5/1971.
Ground magnetic traverses carried out over prospective gold and base metal-bearing stratigraphic horizons in the vicinity of the abandoned Waukaringa Goldfield yielded several magnetic anomalies thought to correspond to massive pyritic ore in buried...-
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Mount Rose. Progress reports to licence expiry for the period 1/10/1968 to 30/9/1970; Mount Serle. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 10/2/1969 to 9/2/1971.
Base metal exploration carried out in the vicinity of historic copper workings in the Mount Rose area, situated approximately 30 miles east-northeast of Copley, has consisted of detailed 1:1500 scale geological mapping, soil and rock chip sampling,...-
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Mount Lyndhurst (Flinders Ranges Project). Evaluation of the Lorna Doone and Lynda mine copper prospects and surrounding areas. Progress reports for the period 4/1/1973 to 3/1/1975.
In August 1972 Cultus Pacific commenced exploring a number of historic copper prospects near Lyndhurst in the northern Flinders Ranges, with a view to assessing their feasibility for open-cut mining. The programme of work completed so far has...-
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Published: 04 Mar 1974
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Oraparinna. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 22/7/1969 to 21/7/1970.
Exploration of the area around the margins of the Oraparinna Diapir for commercial barite deposits has consisted of aerial photographic studies, plus ground geological traverses of photo-interpreted fault structures, and geological mapping, trenching...-
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Mount Lyndhurst. Progress and final reports for the period 4/1/1973 to 3/1/1975.
Exploration for stratabound copper mineralisation in the Mount Lyndhurst area, allied with intensive prospecting of existing Mineral Claims and other historic base metal prospects and reported showings, has demonstrated a favourable geological...-
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Published: 02 Jan 1975
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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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Boolooroo. Progress reports for the period 18/12/1969 to 17/12/1971.
A consultant's technical review was received on existing recent exploration data originating from the SA Mines Department, for the Mount Coffin Diapir and its immediate environment. It was found that significant geochemical and induced polarisation...-
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Mount Serle - Angepena area. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 25/5/1972 to 24/5/1973.
Previously detected low-level geochemical anomalies for Cu, Pb and Zn were confirmed by follow-up stream sediment and soil sampling. Field inspections were made by helicopter of selected anomalous areas in the Upper Proterozoic and Lower Cambrian...-
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Oulnina. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 5/7/2002 to 4/7/2004.
In a search for possible stratiform hydrothermal gold deposits in a stratigraphic/structural setting similar to those of economic gold occurrences at the Mount Grainger Goldfield and on the Paratoo Dome, 45 rock chip samples were collected from...-
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Published: 16 Oct 1903
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Caernarvon. Combined first annual and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/12/1993 to 19/12/1994.
In a search for possible economic stratiform copper mineralisation formed at the base of the Neoproterozoic Tapley Hill Formation, no significant anomalies were located during limited follow-up sampling of elevated Cu reported from previous stream...-
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Mining leases held over various Mount Lyndhurst Diapir copper mine prospects. Six-monthly returns for the period January - June 1974.
8 diamond drillholes totalling 1597 feet were drilled to test for buried lode extensions at the Avondale lead-zinc mine and for hydrothermal copper mineralisation possibly associated with diorite dykes at the Belliack prospect, where anomalous rock...-
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Arkaroola. Progress reports for the period 26/8/1974 to 9/8/1977.
A sequence of exploration programs in the Mount Painter Province, undertaken on Special Mining Leases since 1965, have been previously released. Exploration for base metals since 1974, in an area extending 20 km southwest from Arkaroola, comprised a...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1977
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Nackara. First partial surrender report, for the period 24/9/1984 to 22/8/1985.
Exploration was undertaken for Telfer - style stratabound gold at the contact between the Tapley Hill Formation and the Tarcowie Siltstone, and for placer type gold in glacial sequences such as the Appila Tillite and Wilyerpa Formation (94 stream...-
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Blinman, Maggie Hill, Martins Well, Willippa, Bibliando, Upalinna and Mount Hemming. Quarterly, annual and final reports for the period 14/1/90 to 27/4/96.
Possible intrusive Proterozoic salt bodies beneath the Blinman, Upalinna, Martins Well, Mt Hemming, Willippa and Bibliando Domes were investigated by field mapping, including the construction of measured outcrop stratigraphic sections, seismic...-
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Kapunda. Progress report to licence expiry, for the period 1/8/1994 to 31/1/1995.
No new work. Report describes the results of a SAMREF database literature search for available geological information pertaining to the Kapunda mine, with a consultant's overview of the geological setting and exploration potential for finding related...-
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Published: 20 Mar 1995
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Waukaringa Creek and Euro Hill (the Waukaringa Project). Joint annual reports to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 13/12/1995 to 12/12/1998.
Detailed geological mapping and rock chip geochemical sampling of inferred Telfer style gold prospects in the Waukaringa area, 40 km north-northwest of Yunta, have identified anomalous gold in silicified sandstones, quartzites and quartz veins, as...-
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Published: 10 Sep 1998
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Waukaringa North, Waukaringa Creek and Euro Hill (the Waukaringa JV Project). Data release made at the joint first partial surrenders of the latter two licences: joint annual reports for the period 13/12/1993 to 12/6/1995.
Gold/copper exploration being undertaken north-west of Yunta has comprised rock chip geochemical sampling and BLEG stream sediment sampling. No significant gold anomalies were identified from the drainage bulk samples. High assay values of up to 8.8...-
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Mount Davidson. Partial surrender report for the period 12/9/1979 to 11/9/1980 [plus a separate summary of previous exploration in this area of the Baratta lead-zinc field].
During exploration for possible economic stratabound base metal sulphides within the Upper Proterozoic Tindelpina Shale Member, 80 km east of Hawker, 647 samples of weathered calcareous black shale were collected along a 90 km strike distance as part...-
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Kapunda. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 11/12/1972 to 10/12/1973 [plus supporting data obtained from previous explorers].
The resumption of brownfields mineral exploration at the historic Kapunda copper mine and nearby prospects, undertaken by a new company, has targeted previously identified copper geochemical anomalies lying on the abandoned mine leases and along...-
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