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Amdel service work report on uranium-lead [radiometric] dating of an outcrop sample [of the Boucaut Volcanics].
An absolute age of 677 Ma +/- 12 Ma was determined from analyses of six selected zircon grains separated from the subject volcanic rock sample, but the result is strongly affected by the need to impose large corrections to the data to compensate for...-
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Published: 06 Oct 1988
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RB 77/00051;Env 03054 Porphyry style copper/molybdenum mineralization at Anabama Hill and the Cronje Dam copper prospect.
For a project to determine the base metal potential of known copper-mineralised igneous rocks which outcrop in an area located approximately 59 km south-west of Olary, the South Australian Government has completed detailed mapping, geochemical...-
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Published: 17 May 1977
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RB 93/00026 Pulpara Kia Ora Bendigo bedrock drilling programme, 1992.
During the period September to December 1992, as part of the SA Exploration Initiative (SAEI), SADME completed an investigative drilling programme of concealed bedrock in the area of the Delamerian Bendigo Granite and surrounding metasediments of...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1993
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Mount Denison and Mount Charles (the Peake and Denison Project). Data release made upon the expiry/full surrender of subsequent licences : respective annual and joint annual reports for the period 1/6/1994 to 31/5/1999. [ Index Part 1 of 2 ].
[ Note - here is only Part 1 of an abstract relating to 2 separately indexed parts ]. The subject two areas covering the northern outcropping Peake and Denison Ranges basement inliers were taken up by Pancontinental Mining to test for possible...-
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Belton, Two Sisters, Marchant Hill and Steve's Gap (Orroroo Project). Joint annual and final reports to licences' expiry/full surrender for the period 16/2/2007 to 15/2/2009.
Exploration for possible economic secondary deposits of copper, uranium and gold that might be associated with known iron-rich sediments deposited at or near the base of the Sturtian sedimentary sequence, carried out within four tenement areas that...-
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Princess Royal, Burra West, Burra North, Florieton, Mount Bryan, Burra Central, Mongolata, Redbanks, Hallett Hill and The Gums (the Burra Project tenement group). Joint annual reports for the period 1/5/2009 to 30/4/2017.
A multi-licence project area centred on the historic abandoned Burra copper mine is being explored for possible economic, buried Burra type copper oxide and copper carbonate mineralisation that may have formed within Neoproterozoic metasedimentary...-
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Lilydale, SA. Progress report and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/4/1969 to 31/3/1971.
An airborne scintillometer reconnaissance with ground-based follow-up, a geochemical study of groundwater, and open-hole rotary mud drilling (10 vertical holes, total 3205 feet) plus downhole wireline geophysical logging failed to locate significant...-
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Geological and geophysical mapping of Billeroo South, Curnamona Province, South Australia.
A semi-detailed geological mapping program has been completed in the Billeroo South area of the NW Olary Block, Curnamona Craton, South Australia. Unlike other areas of the Olary Block, this area had not been previously mapped in any detail except...-
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Geological mapping of the Outalpa Inliers, Curnamona Province, South Australia.
Previous mapping and studies on lithology and lithostratigraphy of the Willyama Supergroup have utilised disparate classification schemes and vary greatly in quality and spatial accuracy for the geological data. In this study and report, they have...-
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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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Olary (part of the Braemar Iron Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/cancellation, for the period 20/9/2010 to 19/9/2015.
A licence area in the Olary district comprising three separate sub-blocks has been explored for possible economic stratabound iron ore occurrences within partly concealed Neoproterozoic bedrock. The subject ground was taken up by Wentworth Metals...-
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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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Monarto (part of the Adelaide Hills Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 23/5/2013 to 28/8/2018.
A very small area located ~10 km west of Murray Bridge has been explored for the following: - possible buried shear zone hosted gold mineralisation which may occur in structures spatially and probably temporally associated with Delamerian deformation...-
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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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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Cutana. Annual reports for the period 10/12/2009 to 9/12/2018.
An area consisting of three separate sub-blocks located ~20 to 35 km north-east of Olary and ~20 km east of Cutana is being explored for possible economic gold as basement shear and vein hosted style deposits, as well as for possible extensions of the...-
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Update of basement interpretation and assessment of mineral potential, EL 2487, Sedan, South Australia.
The acquisition in the Sedan area by Shell Coal Pty Ltd during May 1999 of high resolution infill aeromagnetic data, as part of the South Australian Exploration Initiative (SAEI) airborne geophysical programme, has enabled some revision of the...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Devonborough Downs and Olary (the Olary Project). Joint annual reports for the period 21/1/2012 to 20/1/2014.
Two adjacent licences together covering a large area located to the south of the Barrier Highway between Olary and Manna Hill are being explored for possible large tonnage, mainly buried low grade magnetite deposits that could have formed within the...-
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Freeling Heights (part of Gunsight Project). Progress and partial surrender reports for the period 7/1/1983 to 6/1/1984.
Evaluation of previous investigations, and geochemical sampling of an Ordovician granite intrusion in the Valley Bore area, particularly for pegmatitic tin-tantalum mineralization, has located only low order anomalous values. Some restricted...-
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Cronje Dam. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/8/1979 to 29/11/1984.
Continuing exploration for possible hydrothermal or epithermal base metal and precious metal deposits, within an area centred 60 km south-west of Olary, at the outset targeted some previously identified geochemical anomalies, principally via shallow...-
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Houghton. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 15/4/1968 to 28/2/1970.
As part of uranium exploration being carried out over the oldest basement rocks forming inliers to the Adelaide Geosyncline within the southern Mount Lofty Ranges, an airborne scintiilometer survey was flown across the Houghton Inlier during December...-
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