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Minlaton. Progress reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 27/4/1977 to 6/12/1978.
One diamond and seven rotary/percussion drillholes tested Cambrian rocks for base metals. Six water bores were logged geophysically. IP/resistivity and gravity surveys were undertaken.-
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RB 64/00109 First geological and geochemical report on the Sellicks Hill area for the period January to May 1967.
The Lower Cambrian rocks of South Australia contain a number of stratiform lead, zinc and copper deposits. Work at Sellick Hill has indicated that a massive Archaeocyatha-bearing limestone carries anomalous amounts of lead and zinc. Basal...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1969
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RB 2000/00013 Australian Clay Minerals Society Inc. 17th Biennial Conference, Adelaide, 10-12 April 2000: Field Guide for post-conference tour, 13-14 April 2000 - Yorke Peninsula clays and carbonates, copper mines, desert loam soils and mangroves.
This tour is concerned with aspects of the soils, geology, landforms, clays and mining on Yorke Peninsula, and likewise for the northern Adelaide Plains which are separated from the Peninsula by Gulf St Vincent. Both of these regions are among the...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2000
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RB 2010/00018 Investigation into the use of radon and soil sampling in exploration at the Hillside copper-gold deposit, South Australia.
Copper and gold mineralisation is commonly associated with accessory uranium, and so radon generated from the uranium's decay may provide a tool that is useful in exploration for this style of deposit. As part of an investigation into applying radon...-
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Published: 01 May 2010
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Ninnes. Combined first annual / final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/6/1997 to 18/6/1998.
A 79 m deep RC drillhole sited on an aeromagnetic and calcrete geochemical anomaly located south of Bute returned anomalous zinc from Cambrian limestone over the depth interval 14-26 m (the best grade being 1 m @ 1802 ppm from 16 m depth). No...-
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Mount Compass (the Finniss River Project). Combined first annual/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/11/1996 to 18/11/1997.
A gossanous bedrock outcrop present within Early Cambrian sediments of the central Fleurieu Peninsula, and situated 16 km north-east of Mount Compass township, was investigated as a possible Mississippi Valley - type (MVT) base metals target....-
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Curdimurka. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 11/8/1977 to 10/4/1979.
An area located along the Marree - Alice Springs Railway in the region of Curdimurka was selected to be explored on the basis of its potential to contain deposits of bedded trona in closed basins, and to have sodium carbonate brines present in near...-
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Rapid Bay. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 8/5/1969 to 7/5/1970.
Exploration for possible Mississippi Valley - type stratabound base metal deposits hosted by Early Palaeozoic limestones in the Rapid Bay district has consisted only of a regional stream sediment survey (204 samples). Numerous low order base metal...-
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Geochemical drainage sampling in SML 259 SA.
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Published: 01 Jan 1969
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Beltana. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 14/12/1973 to 13/12/1975.
A geological and geochemical appraisal made of various mines and prospects in the Beltana area has sugggested that only those situated nearest the Nuccaleena Diapir are the most likely to yield drilling success in the search for significant extensions...-
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Port Lincoln South. Progress and final reports to licence surrender, for the period 19/11/1973 to 12/8/1975.
In 1975 Blue Circle Cement undertook an assessment of the reserves and quality of deposits of Recent limesand, aeolianite limestone and ferruginous clay which form an active dunefield lying adjacent to BHP's Coffin Bay Tramway in the Port Lincoln...-
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Chundie Swamps. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 29/11/1974 to 7/7/1976.
As part of a continued search for possible Proterozoic - Cainozoic unconformity - related, concealed sedimentary uranium deposits in an area of the Eucla Basin located 60 km north of Fowlers Bay, Pechiney conducted geological reconnaissance, ground...-
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Lake Torrens area. Joint progress reports and joint final report to licences' expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/6/1966 to 14/11/1969.
Extensive geochemical and geological investigations were carried out over exposed and shallowly buried, predominantly flat-lying Lower Cambrian carbonate rocks in an area extending from the western edge of the Flinders Ranges to west of Lake Torrens....-
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Published: 17 Mar 1969
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Ifould Lake. Progress and final reports for the period 29/11/1974 to 4/8/1976.
10 reverse circulation holes were drilled, totalling 311 m. Surface radiometric effects were attributed to groundwater Ra and/or Rn, or to evaporitic concentrations of uranium daughter products. Results from drilling and from track etch (alpha)...-
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Mount Arden (part of the Hawker Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/10/2007 to 21/10/2009.
EL 3961 lying 10 km north-west of Quorn forms part of the Hawker Project tenement package within the Adelaide Fold Belt that is being explored for sediment-hosted copper deposits. Licensee Copper Range has been looking for bleached, altered sandstone...-
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Published: 04 Mar 2010
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Yandina Hill (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Final report at licence surrender, for the project combined reporting period 10/1/2002 to 15/11/2015.
In late 2011, regional scale satellite recorded Aster multispectral data was purchased to cover the entirety of Perilya’s northern Flinders Ranges Project acreage. The data acquired was intended to be used to locate areas of potentially unmapped...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2015
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Coonalpyn. Combined first annual / final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/1/2010 to 20/1/2011.
Assessment of the economic potential of a historically worked manganese mineral occurrence located just north of Mount Boothby, near Coonalpyn, initially comprised a field inspection of two remnant infilled costeans during October 2009, plus the...-
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Published: 19 May 2011
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Beltana / Copley. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 15/4/1994 to 24/6/2003.
A portion of the central Flinders Ranges covering the Beltana Diapir and its surrounds has been taken up mainly to explore for possible economic buried hydrothermal replacement type or epigenetic stratabound base metal mineralisation, with magnesite...-
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Published: 23 Dec 2014
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Mount Deception (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 14/10/1999 to 27/4/2017.
The surrendered two remnant portions EL 5725 Mount Deception formerly were part of a much larger multi-tenement package which is currently still being explored by Perilya, primarily looking for economic stratabound zinc silicate mineralisation similar...-
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Published: 21 Jun 2017
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Wilkawillina [Gorge] (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Fourth partial surrender report, for the period 5/8/1999 to 27/4/2017.
The subject now relinquished portion of EL 5723 forms part of a much larger multi-tenement package currently being explored by Perilya, primarily looking for zinc silicate mineralisation similar to that occurring at the Beltana deposit. Overall, the...-
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Published: 22 Jun 2017
