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Report on the Shamrock uranium prospect.
Uranium mineralisation was first discovered at the old Shamrock Copper Mine during a systematic search of old mine dumps by the South Australian Department of Mines in 1955. Follow-up investigations located a small high-grade uranium lode (Valley...-
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Report on exploration investigations in the Mount McDonnell Valley.
Outcropping Wywyana Formation in the Mount McDonnell Valley, which had been shown by past work to be highly anomalous in copper, with attendant gold enrichment, was targetted by 50 m by 20 m grid-based geological, geochemical and ground geophysical...-
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Arkaroola. Progress and technical reports to licence renewal for the period 19/5/1972 to 18/5/1974.
Ongoing base metal exploration in the Arkaroola Station region of the north-eastern Flinders Ranges by licensee North Flinders Mines (NFM) has involved reviews of certain existing prospects, which has led to the entry of farminee Shell Minerals...-
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Tarlton Knob and Cadnia Hill. Joint progress and final reports to licences' expiry/full surrender for the period 23/3/1973 to 22/3/1974.
A consultant's detailed regional geological study of the northern Willouran Ranges, and then his very close examination of the apparent controls on known diapir-related exposed epigenetic / stratabound copper mineralisation, have identified three...-
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Mount Plantagenet. Progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/1/1982 to 7/1/1986.
Detailed base and precious metals exploration undertaken by Utah Development Company in the area of the Worumba Anticline has targeted possible stratiform Zambian Copperbelt - type deposits. Exploratory work has included 72 geochemical vertical...-
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Gunsight and Yudnamutana. Quarterly and annual reports for the period 25/5/79 to 30/8/83.
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, gold, uranium and REE since 1974, in an area extending 50 km southwest from...-
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RB 59/00056 Diamond drilling at the Pinnacles mine.
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Published: 01 Jan 1967
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RB 77/00015 Oodla Wirra palygorskite deposit, MC 789, Rocla Industries Ltd, secn 132 Hd Coglin, Co. Herbert.
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 85/00027 Gravity of the Blinman Dome Diapir.
Gravity traverses completed over the Blinman Dome indicate the presence of a low density body, interpreted to consist of brecciated material with a large depth extent. The bulk of the dismembered sedimentary rafts and xenoliths may be confined within...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1985
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RB 93/00019 Geology of the Upalinna Diapir, central Flinders Ranges.
Investigation of the Upalinna Diapir, located 20 km east of Wilpena Pound in the Adelaide Geosyncline, has identified a number of structural and sedimentary features normally associated with evaporite diapirs. The Upalinna Diapir is a small,...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1993
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RB 88/00051 Pre-Mesozoic geology of the Curdimurka region.
Pre-Mesozoic rocks are best exposed in the Willouran Ranges SW of Marree, but inliers occur as far west as Stuart Creek. These approximate the junction of the Stuart Shelf (to the west) with the Torrens Hinge Zone, which extends east to the Norwest...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1988
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North Well Creek. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/11/1994 to 14/11/1999.
Exploration, initially for rare metal elements, was carried out in the vicinity of diapiric structures intruded by leucogranite in the area between Arkaroola Village and Umberatana Homestead. Work comprising petrography, rock chip sampling, stream...-
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Published: 07 Feb 1900
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Mount Plantagenet. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 11/2/1971 to 10/2/1973.
Ongoing exploration for economic epigenetic and syngenetic copper occurrences in the vicinity of the Worumba Diapir, east of Hawker, has concentrated on field mapping, soil and channel sampling and shallow percussion drilling (47 holes for 3755+ feet)...-
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Published: 23 May 1972
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Willouran Ranges Stratiform Copper Project. Quarterly reports and annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/12/1976 to 21/12/1978.
Detailed geological mapping, rock and soil sample geochemistry, sedimentary petrology, and rotary percussion and diamond drilling were undertaken in the Willouran Ranges, south-west of Marree, to explore for stratiform copper mineralisation,...-
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Mount Norwest. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 19/6/2014 to 14/12/2017.
An area located in the south and central Willouran Ranges, and centred ~45 km south-west of Marree, has been explored for possible buried economic Neoproterozoic stratiform copper mineralisation and inferred MVT, replacement or diapir-related other...-
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Published: 24 Jan 1918
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Mount Caernarvon, Mount Havelock and Arkaba Hill (part of the Torrens Project). Joint final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 17/1/2012 to 14/12/2017.
An adjoining group of tenements located between Hawker and Wilpena Pound were taken up to explore for possible buried economic hydrothermal stratiform copper mineralisation which may have formed in sandy strata next to significant disruptive...-
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Luxemburg Well. Progress and final reports for the period 4/11/83 to 3/11/84.
Diamond drillcore obtained from the Luxemburg mine area, which was drilled by Sundowner Minerals Pty Ltd in 1969-70, was assayed and identified as consisting of altered pyroxenite, altered granitoids (adamellite, granodiorite, tonalite), and altered...-
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Mount Stuart. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 5/1/1984 to 4/1/1987.
Epithermal, fault-related gold and base metals in calcareous Adelaidean metasediments (cf. the Beltana and Aroona zinc-lead deposits), and sedex style base metals of Mount Isa - McArthur River type, or stratiform base metals in black shale units, were...-
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Nilpinna Homestead area (part of the Australian Diamond Exploration joint venture). Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/1/1980 to 22/2/1987.
Diamond exploration undertaken in the Peake and Denison Ranges included the acquisition and processing of aerial magnetic, radiometric and heliborne magnetic and VLF-EM surveys, with follow-up ground magnetic and Sirotem surveys, plus extensive...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Arkaroola (part of the Frome Basin Project). Annual reports for the period 3/6/1996 to 4/12/2008. [ Index Part 1 of 2 ].
A 1243 square km rugged mountainous area in the far northern Flinders Ranges extending between Arkaroola, Moolawatana, Prospect Hill, Mount Livingston and Mount Saturday was taken up to explore primarily for gold that it was hoped could exist in...-
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