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Wallaroo and Moonta mines and smelters, Yorke's [sic] Peninsula, South Australia. History, nature and methods.
A detailed account of the large scale copper mining and processing operations occurring in the 'Copper Triangle' region of South Australia in the few years following the end of the First World War. The included metrics and pictorial coverage of many...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1921
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RB 84/00031 Appraisal of gold tailings - Mount Grainger Goldfield.
Between 1901 and 1916 gold ore from Mount Grainger Goldfield, 10 km north of Oodla Wirra, was treated by battery amalgamation and cyanidation at the Mount Grainger Mine. Tailings and slimes from this ore processing period still remain on site, and...-
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Published: 01 May 1984
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RB 98/00010 Regolith studies related to the Challenger gold deposit, Gawler Craton, South Australia. Geochemistry and stratigraphy of the Challenger gold deposit - Volume 1: text, and Volume 2: appendices.
The Challenger gold deposit lies in the northern Gawler Craton, South Australia, 750 km NW of Adelaide, and 140 km NW of Tarcoola. A 1.5 km traverse (the regolith line) was chosen for the study of geochemical dispersion and regolith stratigraphy...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1998
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Review of Mineral exploration activity, 2003 and 2004.
2003 activity: Expenditure by companies on mineral exploration licences in South Australia for calendar year 2003 was $37.0 million, a slight increase on the $35.7 million spent in 2002. Mineral exploration drilling metreage, a key indicator of...-
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Chimpering Rock Hole, Yarrana Hill, Moornaba Rock Hole, Euria Well, Koonibba Mission, Lake Tallacootra, Dunn Hill, Wallala Hill, Mount Centre and Nalara. Quarterly and annual progress reports plus technical reports, for the period 25/7/1989 to 24/7/1992.
Hitherto untried exploration for heavy mineral sands on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin, conducted by the Ceduna Joint Venture partners since 1989 over ten contiguous licence areas in the Ooldea - Barton area centred 150 km north-west of Ceduna,...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Clare (part of the Spalding Project). Annual reports for the period 2/1/2007 to 1/1/2010.
In Phoenix Copper's opinion, although several previous explorers had investigated the Spalding Inlier area, many targets remained insufficiently tested. The principal structural target the company wished to explore is the intersection between an...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Alford. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 25/10/2007 to 4/11/2012.
Work performed at the Alford Project, until the latter half of 2007, had so far mainly concentrated on the Netherleigh Park prospect, with the density of drilling there now providing the main insights into prospectivity and controls on mineralisation....-
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 8 partnership DPY8-08 - northern Yorke Peninsula, Alford Copper Belt, structurally controlled IOCG mineral prospects. Drilling project final report.
As part of ongoing mineral exploration within the Moonta-Wallaroo region of South Australia, Peninsula Resources Limited via its parent company Adelaide Resources Ltd is exploring for economic buried copper-gold mineralisation within its EL 4961,...-
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Robertstown. Progress reports, first partial surrender report, and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/11/1988 to 29/11/1989.
As part of a regional exploration programme, possible Neoproterozoic sediment-hosted gold was sought in the Eudunda - Robertstown area, that could be associated with a major structure and with carbonate-bearing rocks formed low in the post-glacial...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Boolooroo Goldfield and Kate Hill. Joint annual reports for the period 2/1/2009 to 8/2/2019.
Two adjoining licence areas located ~ 40 km north-east of Leigh Creek township, in the ranges lying immediately east of the Telford coal basin, are being explored for possible economic occurrences of marble rock which are believed to hold enormous...-
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Geological report no. 1 on the Queen Bee mine area, SML 420, Olary area, SA.
Three diamond drillholes in the Queen Bee mine area intersected economic grades of copper over a mineable width in the New South Queen Bee Reef. Preliminary tonnage/grade calculations suggest that a small-scale mining venture may be economically...-
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Eucolo Creek (part of the Churchill Dam Project). First partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 31/1/2006 to 30/1/2011.
An area located approximately 20 km west of Woomera and 90 km south-west of Olympic Dam is being explored for possible economic buried IOCG - style mineralisation that may have formed within Mesoproterozoic basement comprising probable hydrothermally...-
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Lake Gilles - Uno [Range] area. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 11/2/2001 to 28/9/2010.
Exploration of an area abutting the northern side of Lake Gilles, and located in the vicinity of the major Uno Fault structure and the Gawler Ranges volcanic province, 70 km north-west of Whyalla, has sought to find economic epithermal/hydrothermal,...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Ooldea. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 6/12/1989 to 5/1/2000.
An occurrence of primary magnetite mineralisation within buried Archaean magnetic basement, first inferred from a strong northeast-trending linear magnetic anomaly observed at a location 20 km south of Ooldea Siding at the northern edge of the...-
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Published: 16 Nov 1999
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Cone (subsequently part of the Burra North Project). Annual reports submitted until the commencement of project licences' joint reporting, for the period 6/3/2007 to 5/3/2009.
An area of 300 square km located immediately north and north-east of Burra was taken up because it is considered to be prospective for gold and copper mineralisation related to Cambro-Ordovician sediments and late-stage felsic and mafic intrusives,...-
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Kalabity. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/11/2000 to 28/3/2014.
An area situated ~100 km west of Broken Hill has been explored for buried base and precious metals epigenetic mineralisation that might have formed within Palaeoproterozoic meta-igneous and metasedimentary basement rocks of the north-eastern Olary...-
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West of Lake Eyre area. Annual reports and combined annual reports to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 13/11/2006 to 19/3/2013.
An area of Cretaceous and younger cover located close to the south-western margin of Lake Eyre North, where no previous drilling had occurred, was taken up to explore for possible buried IOCG deposits hosted by the underlying basement, and for...-
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RB 2016/00032 Geological Survey of South Australia Discovery Day 2016: presentation abstracts and posters.
Discovery Day 2016 provides a new forum for the delivery of precompetitive geoscience data and information. It is designed to show the major themes of the geoscience activity within the Geological Survey of South Australia, the PACE Copper Initiative...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2016
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RB 2010/00015 Constraints on the timing of brittle faulting at [the] Challenger Mine.
The orebody at the Challenger gold mine shows remarkable down-plunge continuity, from the surface to some 1400 m vertical depth, which is geometrically equivalent to a down-plunge length of ~2800 m. However, at ~220 RL within the mine, the orebody is...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2010
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RB 2000/00003 Regolith studies related to the Birthday gold prospect, Gawler Craton, SA.
Our knowledge of geochemical dispersion of gold and gold pathfinders in the Gawler Craton (South Australia) is poor since there have been very few published research or orientation studies. In this study conducted at the Birthday gold prospect, the...-
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Published: 01 Mar 2000
