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Yudnamutana Project, SML 704. Old Noll prospect. Report on drilling DDH NFK1.
Diamond drill-hole NFK1 was drilled to a total depth of 289.56 metres at the Old Noll prospect in November - December 1972, with the aim of intersecting the buried source of mineralization that has given rise to the boxwork structures outcropping...-
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RB 35/00035 Report on (the) Spring Creek copper mine.
The abandoned and flooded Spring Creek mine, located 7 miles south of Wilmington on the north-western slope of Mount Remarkable, was visited by an officer of the SA Dept of Mines in order to check whether any radioactive minerals were present in still...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1953
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RB 54/00075 Ediacara silver-lead-copper Mineral Field. (Mineralisation investigation) Progress report no. 1.
Lead and copper mineralisation occurs in rocks of Cambrian age in the Ediacara Mineral Field. Rich pockets of ore minerals of limited extent occur in the Transition beds and in the overlying carbonates, associated with breccias or turbidites....-
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Published: 19 Mar 1962
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RB 43/00062 Copper prospect, Mutooroo Station.
Copper carbonates are found irregularly dispersed within two types of quartz reef occurring in sheared Adelaide System quartzites and slates, 26 miles east south-east of Radium Hill and 4 miles south- southwest of Mutooroo Homestead. Mining there was...-
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Published: 25 Sep 1956
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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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Waddikee Rocks and Corrobinnie (part of the Eyre Peninsula Project). Joint second and sixth respectively partial surrenders report, for the overall period 17/10/1996 to 11/7/2016.
The stated exploration strategy for the Joint Venture's Eyre Peninsula Project tenements (that are still extant) is to explore predominantly for gold and copper, with uranium as a secondary focus. Regional programmes of calcrete geochemical sampling,...-
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Manners Well. Combined first annual/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/10/2018 to 1/10/2019.
An intensely faulted and folded area centred ~65 km north-east of Parachilna, where extensive hydrothermal alteration is evident in the Neoproterozoic bedrock, and where considerable past small-scale surface mining activity has occurred, but where no...-
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Mount Gunson district. Geological mapping data, 1971-1972.
A mapping programme was undertaken by the licensees to test the possibility of the near-mine area to Mount Gunson being a suitable host environment for stratiform copper mineralisation. The exploration hypothesis used was that such mineralisation...-
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Published: 21 Apr 1972
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Structures and mineralization in the Cattlegrid ore body, and speculation on the genesis of the Mount Gunson copper deposits.
Discusses the influence of sedimentary structures, weathering and mild tectonism on the development of breccia types, the relationship of mineralization to faulting and fracture systems, possible sources of base metals and sulphur and consequent...-
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Kapunda. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 24/3/1976 to 23/3/1978.
Utah's ongoing exploration for possible economic, buried stratiform Late Proterozoic copper orebodies at Kapunda and in the surrounding district has consisted principally of percussion and diamond drilling (66 and 9 holes respectively, totalling...-
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Eurelia - Carrieton area. Annual and progress reports to licence amalgamation/renewal for the period 5/8/1971 to 14/2/1972.
Ongoing exploration for possible economic stratiform copper deposits occurring in Late Proterozoic metasediments forming the Eurelia Anticline has concentrated on evaluating mainly the Copper Claim prospect plus four less attractive prospects, after...-
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RB 65/00035 Clare Regional Geochemical Project.
This investigation was a feasibility study, therefore environmental factors are dealt with in much more detail than would be necessary in a routine geochemical report. Apparently these factors has little significant effect on the results. Spot...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1967
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RB 72/00040;Amdel 00826 Geochemical prospecting for nickel, copper, zinc and lead. A review.
The South Australian Department of Mines has for several years undertaken geochemical surveys in different parts of the State. Arid areas present particular problems for this kind of prospecting. Consequently, Amdel proposed undertaking a literature...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1972
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RB 72/00162;Amdel 00872 Geochemical prospecting for copper, lead, zinc and nickel (under arid ground surface conditions). A review.
The previously written Amdel Report no. 826 contained the results of a literature survey undertaken on behalf of the South Australian Department of Mines on geochemical techniques for prospecting for copper, lead, zinc and nickel in arid regions. The...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1972
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RB 75/00131;Amdel 01078 Geochemical prospecting for copper, lead, zinc, nickel, tin and molybdenum.
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Published: 01 Jan 1975
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Bagot Well North. Third partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 15/11/2005 to 12/12/2012.
Exploration for copper mineralisation within a now relinquished licence portion centred 18 km north-northeast of Kapunda was aimed at finding deposits of oxide and carbonate ores similar to those mined historically at Burra and Kapunda. Work performed...-
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Spalding. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 4/11/2009 to 7/5/2012.
Exploration for copper mineralisation within a small licence area surrounding Mount Tinline, located approximately 20 km south of Spalding ,was aimed principally at finding deposits of oxide and carbonate ores similar to those mined historically at...-
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Mongolata. Second partial surrender report, for the period 13/2/2004 to 9/3/2012.
Exploration for copper and gold mineralisation within a now relinquished licence portion located 30-35 km east of Burra has utilised geochemical and geophysical methods to assess the potential of buried Adelaidean and older bedrock, owing to the lack...-
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Yarlbrinda South. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 20/1/2004 to 10/1/2011.
An area located approximately 80 km north-east of Streaky Bay was taken up to explore for possible Hiltaba Suite intrusion-related, structurally controlled gold mineralisation formed at the southern end of the Yarlbrinda Shear Zone (YSZ) , in a...-
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Washpool. First partial surrender report, for the period 10/1/2009 to 9/11/2012.
Exploration for copper mineralisation within a now relinquished licence portion centred 21 km east of Spalding was aimed at finding deposits of oxide and carbonate ores similar to those mined historically at Burra and Kapunda. Work performed was the...-
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