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Amdel service work report on uranium-lead [radiometric] dating of an outcrop sample [of the Boucaut Volcanics].
An absolute age of 677 Ma +/- 12 Ma was determined from analyses of six selected zircon grains separated from the subject volcanic rock sample, but the result is strongly affected by the need to impose large corrections to the data to compensate for...-
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Published: 06 Oct 1988
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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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Mutooroo [Station]. Progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 11/9/1989 to 6/9/1994.
Exploration for possible heavy mineral sand marine placer deposits within Tertiary sediments on the northern margin of the Murray Basin comprised aircore drilling (28 holes, total 744 m) in the Mutooroo station area, 50 km south-east of Olary. The...-
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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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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mutooroo (the Olary Creek Project). Annual reports for the period 15/11/2005 to 7/2/2019.
An area centred ~50 km south west of Cockburn is being explored for possible economic base and precious metal mineralisation that may have formed in buried Palaeoproterozoic basement rocks, as well as for any secondary uranium mineralisation that may...-
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Anabama. First partial surrender report, for the period 14/8/2015 to 13/8/2017.
Half of a small licence area located in the Anabama district has lately been surrendered. The ground had been taken up to explore for possible economic buried base metal mineralisation that might have formed on and near the south-eastern margin of the...-
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Published: 12 Dec 1917
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Anabama. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/8/2015 to 13/8/2019.
A small area covering the eastern end of the historic Anabama copper prospect in the Benda Range south of Manna Hill has been explored for possible buried economic, epithermal/hydrothermal structurally controlled copper-gold mineralisation that may...-
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Published: 11 Oct 1919
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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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Cronje Dam. Combined first quarterly / final report at licence full surrender, for the period 21/5/1985 to 20/8/1985.
The target of exploration carried out in an area centred 65 km south of Olary was a possible large supergene occurrence of low grade gold-copper mineralisation within the felsic to intermediate Boucaut Volcanics. Selected samples from earlier drilled...-
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Anabama North and Anabama (the Anabama JV Project). Data release made at licences' joint full surrender: joint annual reports for the period 1/5/2008 to 18/12/2014.
An area centred ~50 km south-east of Manna Hill township on the Barrier Highway was taken up to explore for possible economic buried epithermal, VHMS style copper-gold or other base and precious metal mineralisation which could have formed within...-
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Cronje Dam. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 20/4/1977 to 19/4/1979.
Exploration for possible concealed volcanogenic massive sulphide (VHMS) base metal mineralisation associated with the Mesoproterozoic Boucaut Volcanics has included the acquisition and assaying of 1200 soil samples, traverse drilling of 224 shallow...-
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Mutooroo Ridge. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 18/4/1977 to 17/4/1978.
Newmont Mining used a ground magnetic survey, an IP survey and a soil geochemical survey to select sites at the Mutooroo Ridge copper prospect for its subsequent drilling during May and October 1977 of 2 inclined, percussion precollared diamond cored...-
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Anabama North. Data release made at licence expiry/renewal : annual reports submitted until the commencement of the Anabama JV Project licences' joint reporting, for the period 11/1/2001 to 30/4/2008.
An area centred ~50 km south-east of Manna Hill township on the Barrier Highway has been taken up to explore for possible economic buried epithermal, VHMS style copper-gold or other base and precious metal mineralisation which could have formed within...-
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Published: 11 Nov 1908
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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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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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Mutooroo. Combined first progress / final report to licence full surrender, for the period 31/5/1985 to 24/7/1985.
A previously drilled prospect which lies at the northern end of the Anabama - Redan Fault Zone in South Australia was investigated for possible economic Telfer style stratabound gold-copper mineralisation that might exist within the Neoproterozoic...-
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Anabama Hill. Combined first annual/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/7/1992 to 26/7/1993.
Exploration for base metal mineralisation near Anabama Hill, 40 km south-east of Manna Hill, comprised rock chip sampling and RAB/RC drilling (58 holes, total 1847 m). Anomalous copper (to 0.19% Cu) and zinc were intersected in hydrothermally altered...-
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Mypolonga, Oakbank and Sturt Vale (part of CRA's Murray Basin Project). Final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 7/7/1980 to 20/6/1983.
As part of ongoing exploration of three areas in the western and northern Murray Basin, an open-file data review, in conjunction with the acquisition and interpretation of previous aeromagnetic and gravity data, provided a basis for CRAE's siting of 5...-
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Published: 04 Mar 1983
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Anabama [Copper-Molybdenum Project]. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 26/10/1972 to 25/10/1974.
Ongoing exploration by the SA Department of Mines of the copper and molybdenum - mineralised Anabama Granite batholith, which is located 20 km south-east of Manna Hill, has involved detailed geological mapping, soil and rock chip sampling, and the...-
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