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RB 96/00016 Review of mineral exploration - CHILDARA region.
Mineral exploration on CHILDARA 1:250 000 geological map sheet was reviewed from SADME open file Envelopes, to complement an overview of regional prospectivity supported via the recent acquisition of high quality aeromagnetic data and a compilation by...-
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Published: 01 May 1996
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Reaphook Hill and Mount Frome (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Respective early annual reports, for the period 17/1/2000 to 16/1/2002.
Two adjoining licence areas located ~50-70 km to the east and south-east of Blinman are being explored for possible economic buried willemite (zinc silicate), scholzite (zinc phosphate) and other base metal mineralisation associated with particular...-
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Witchitie. Progress and final reports for the period 16/10/87 to 16/7/88.
TARGET: An aeromagnetic anomaly located 12 km north-west of Witchitie Homestead was investigated as to whether it is indicative of a possible carbonatite source. EXPLORATION: Ground magnetic surveys, geological field reconnaissance and limited...-
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Portulacca Ridge. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 17/12/1975 to 23/3/1976.
After a geological reconnaissance conducted in the Lake Torrens area located some surface geochemical enrichments of phosphate within an attenuated basal section of the Cambrian Andamooka Limestone at several different stratigraphic levels within that...-
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Published: 15 Apr 1976
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RB 68/00006 First geochemical report on the Mount John Fault and the Nantawarrinna Diapir, Balcanoona 1:63 360 map area.
The mercury ore-mineral, cinnabar, was discovered in 1965 at the Moro Mine, 7½ miles south west of Wertaloona Station, by Kennecott Explorations (Aust.) Pty. Ltd. No further testing of this mercury occurrence was made until May, 1968 when...-
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Published: 15 Jan 1969
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The Flinders Ranges Project, Jamestown Group of tenements. Data release at partial surrender of subsequent licences: combined annual reports for the period 18/9/2004 to 31/12/2010.
Ten contiguous exploration licences in the Jamestown - Peterborough - Quorn region are being explored for possible economic diamonds associated with inferred buried kimberlite intrusions. Prior work done in the 1960s by Stockdale Exploration (a de...-
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Reaphook Hill. Final report at licence surrender, for the period 1/12/1965 to 13/5/1968.
The reported presence of high geochemical zinc values in the Parachilna Formation rocks exposed there prompted Kennecott Explorations to include the Reaphook Hill outlier of Lower Cambrian sediments into its regional investigation of the stratiform...-
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Published: 25 Mar 1967
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Mount Lyall. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 1/5/1969 to 24/3/1971.
The Third Plain zinc silicate (willemite) deposit, located 14 miles south-east of Blinman, has been newly assessed by North Flinders Mines for its economic potential. Originally discovered by Kennecott Explorations in late 1966, and evaluated by them...-
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Clare. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 12/3/1970 to 11/3/1971.
In a search for possible economic stratiform / hydrothermal base metal occurrences and stratabound phosphate mineral deposits in the Clare Hills district, an initial reconnaissance visit and literature search was followed by the conduct of a regional...-
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Published: 10 Jun 1971
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Iron Knob. Progress report to licence surrender for the period 20/4/1972 to 23/7/1972.
Uranium exploration in a known uraniferous area located immediately north of Iron Knob comprised numerous ground radiometric survey traverses made across outcropping Mesoproterozoic rocks, mainly the Corunna Conglomerate. A thin phosphatic basal bed...-
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Published: 18 Jul 1972
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Reaphook Hill. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 1/12/1965 to 30/11/1966.
Systematic stream sediment sampling and follow-up surface rock chip sampling has been carried out across the Reaphook Hill outlier of Lower Cambrian sediments to investigate the economic potential of previously reported high geochemical zinc values in...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1966
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Peterborough area. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 12/3/1970 to 11/3/1971.
Exploration for possible economic stratabound / hydrothermal deposits of base metals and perhaps also uranium, within a large area surrounding Peterborough, has consisted of field inspection and rock chip geochemical sampling of known historic mines,...-
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Published: 10 Mar 1971
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Data release - as updated : World's End. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/3/2009 to 2/3/2016.
An area centred about 30 km south-east of Burra has been explored for possible buried economic Burra style copper mineralisation and for Mongolata Goldfield type alluvial and reef gold. The host metasedimentary unit to the Monster mine, the...-
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Published: 16 Mar 2016
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Australia Plains. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/5/2010 to 2/5/2015.
An area centred ~15 km east of Eudunda, in the north-eastern Mount Lofty Ranges, has been explored initially for possible economic outcropping stratabound/replacement style phosphate mineralisation that may have formed within Adelaidean dolomitic...-
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Published: 25 Jun 2015
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Reaphook Hill (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Sixth partial surrender report, for the period 4/8/1997 to 29/8/2019.
The northern portion of EL 6132, comprising ~0.59% of its former area, was relinquished by the JV partners on 18/7/2019. The only work performed within the now relinquished ground has consisted of reconnaissance + infill surface geochemical sampling...-
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Published: 10 Sep 2019
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Frome. Annual reports for the period 4/11/2015 to 3/11/2018.
During the 2015-2016 period, reconnaissance portable XRF instrument soil spectrochemical sampling, plus limited rock chip sampling, was continued on the subject tenement. Work concentrated on infill sampling at Erragoonah Hill and over Aster...-
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Published: 21 Dec 2018
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Mount Frome (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Fifth partial surrender report, for the period 17/1/2000 to 29/8/2019.
Four separate portions of EL 5773, together comprising ~56% of its former area, were relinquished by the JV partners on 29/8/2019. The only work performed within the now relinquished ground has consisted of reconnaissance + infill surface geochemical...-
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Published: 10 Sep 2019
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Mount Frome (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Fourth partial surrender report, for the period 17/1/2000 to 16/6/2014.
Recently, seven small licence portions totalling 48 square km or ~19.3% of the former area of EL 4597 were relinquished on 16/6/2014 to comply in part with the terms of the 2013 renewal period of the Flinders Ranges Project tenement group's...-
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Published: 22 Jul 2014
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Clayton, Cooryanna and Lake Eyre (part of the Mount Flint Project). Combined first annual/final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 26/3/2008 to 25/3/2009.
Exploration conduced over three semi-adjacent small licence areas located 50-75 km north-east, north and north-west of Marree targeted possible near-surface sedimentary uranium deposits in sandstone palaeochannels, and also sedimentary phosphate rock...-
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Published: 01 May 2009
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Reaphook Hill (formerly part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Licence-specific annual reports for the period 27/9/2015 to 26/9/2018.
A small area centred ~110 km south-east of Copley is being explored for possible buried economic Beltana style zinc silicate mineralisation, as well as for possible epigenetic hydrothermal lead-zinc sulphide and copper mineralisation. During...-
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Published: 26 Nov 2018
