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Bendigo Station. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 6/8/1987 to 5/8/1992.
Copper and gold exploration comprising outcrop, stream sediment and soil geochemical sampling, and the conduct of ground magnetic and IP surveys, plus RC percussion (67 vertical holes, total 6624 m) and diamond cored tail drilling (in 2 holes, total...-
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Published: 02 Jul 1992
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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 [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bonython Hill (part of the Border Project). Annual reports for the period 23/2/2007 to 18/5/2014.
During Year 7 of reporting, exploration work included two 1 km soil geochemical traverses, field inspection of Neogene palaeochannels and land access negotiations with landowners. Previous exploration in the region has recognised the correlation...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Iron Peak. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 12/11/2003 to 11/11/2008.
The banded iron formations associated with various Neoproterozoic tillites in South Australia have for some time been recognised as being potential sources for iron ore, however, the low grade nature of the iron mineralisation within these bands has...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2009
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Outalpa (part of the Curnamona Project). Annual reports for the period 10/6/2012 to 9/6/2018.
The Outalpa (EL 3472) licence area, comprised of two separate sub-blocks respectively centred ~30 km north-northeast and ~45 km north-northwest of Manna Hill, is one of five adjacent tenements held by PepinNini Minerals within the eastern Adelaide...-
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Holowilena South (part of the Hawker Project). Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/10/2006 to 26/10/2014.
An area centred ~45 km east-southeast of Hawker was taken up to explore the stratabound, epigenetic copper resource potential of historic small copper workings located along a NW trending fault zone disrupting Adelaidean metasediments of the Burra and...-
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Published: 25 Oct 1914
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Manunda, Tiverton Outstation, Iron Peak and Pualco Range (the Razorback Ridge Iron Ore Project, later the Mawson Iron Project). Joint annual reports for the period 10/12/2009 to 9/12/2016.
Three adjoining licence areas in the Baratta Trough within the northern Nackara Arc have been taken up to explore for possible economic buried Neoproterozoic metasedimentary semi-stratabound iron ore. Central EL 4267 covers ~3 km strike length of the...-
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Netley Gap. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/7/2016 to 5/7/2019.
A small licence comprising two separate sub-blocks located 4 km and 22 km south-east of Winnininnie on the Barrier Highway has been explored for possible buried economic, epithermal/hydrothermal structurally controlled copper-gold mineralisation that...-
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Published: 04 Sep 1919
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Wharton Hill. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/4/2016 to 13/4/2020.
An area covering the western end of the historic Anabama copper prospect in the Benda Range, south-west of Manna Hill, has been explored for possible buried economic, epithermal/hydrothermal structurally controlled copper-gold mineralisation that may...-
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Published: 05 Jun 1920
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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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Round Hill. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/4/1984 to 15/10/1986.
TARGET: Possible buried epithermal or hydrothermal gold deposits in the Anabama Hill area. EXPLORATION: An airborne magnetic survey (line spacing : 250 m; altitude : 80 m) covering ELs 1102, 1163 and 1234 was flown by Aerodata Pty Ltd in October...-
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Iron Peak. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/3/1986 to 11/3/1987.
Stratabound gold in rocks of the Adelaidean metasedimentary sequence was the target of exploration undertaken on Manunda Station, about 45 km south-east of Yunta. No significant gold values were detected in a programme of stream sediment bulk...-
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Data release - as updated : Mutooroo (part of the Border Project). Annual reports [but excluding three separately held joint annual reports] and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/4/2007 to 18/4/2020.
During licence Year 11 (2007-2008), exploration activities on renewed EL 3745 included: • acquiring 1.9 line km of TEM profiles at Dingo prospect; • acquiring 21.4 line km of ground magnetic survey coverage at 1-metre station spacing on three...-
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Copperlinka. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 24/1/1983 to 23/3/1989.
TARGET: Gold . as Telfer-style stratabound mineralisation at the contact between Tapley Hill Formation and Tarcowie Siltstone; . as mineralisation of large scale, placer type in the Appila Tillite and Wilyerpa Formation; and . as hydrothermally...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Victor. Annual reports for the period 30/7/2012 to 29/7/2018.
A large area of the south-eastern Flinders Ranges piedmont plains lying ~50 km north-west of Manna Hill, and centred on Mount Victor, is being explored for possible economic buried Neoproterozoic stratabound iron ore of low grade but probable high...-
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Blinman, Maggie Hill and Martins Well. Quarterly, six-monthly, annual and technical reports for the period 19/12/1989 to 8/9/1999.
PEL 41 was granted to a deliberately SA-based new venture exploration company consisting of Chairman and well-known Emeritus Professor of Geology Eric Rudd, four other founding honorary and unsalaried directors, and 100 or so individual speculative...-
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RB 2014/00003 Geology and mineral resources of Bimbowrie Conservation Park – the MacDonald Corridor and adjacent parts of the Palaeo- to Mesoproterozoic basement.
Former sheep station ‘Bimbowrie’, situated in the Olary Ranges, South Australia, was purchased by the South Australian Government as a conservation park in 2004. It has had a long history of mining, mineral exploration and geoscientific investigation....-
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Published: 01 Jan 2014
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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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Paratoo. Progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 17/5/1979 to 26/3/1982.
In a search for possible diamonds and their kimberlite hosts that was undertaken within a large area centred ~60 km east of Peterborough, a preliminary literature review and photo-lineament analysis was conducted, next leading to field reconnaissance...-
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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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