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Warraweena. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/6/1973 to 21/9/1974.
Geological mapping, further surface geochemical sampling, test IP surveys and limited shallow diamond drilling (2 holes, total 201.3 m, including 147 m of NQ/BQ wireline coring) were done over a previously identified stream sediment zinc anomaly at...-
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Mount Bayley. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 22/7/1971 to 21/7/1972.
A small area located 15 km north-east of Beltana was explored for possible economic stratabound or epigenetic/hydrothermal base metal deposits associated with Adelaidean and Cambrian calcareous/dolomitic strata and Willouran diapiric structures. Work...-
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Ediacara. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 13/11/1971 to 12/11/1972.
During June-July 1972, 35 shallow vertical rotary percussion drillholes for a total penetration of 877 m were completed within the Ediacara Fault Zone to test for economic base metal mineralisation, the majority of the holes being sited at locations...-
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RB 37/00039 Report on the Copper King ochre deposits (near Beltana).
The Copper King orebody, located approximately 10 miles north-northeast of Beltana township, is a massive deposit of iron carbonate, the upper portion of which has been altered by oxidation and hydration to oxides of iron. The deposit was worked...-
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Published: 09 Mar 1954
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RB 81/00098 Leigh Creek town water supply groundwater investigation, progress report no. 2.
Fractured rock aquifers were investigated by drilling of 7 vertical holes and 2 angle holes in the Windy Creek area. 1 well was completed as production well with an airlift yield of 12 L/s. The steeply dipping fractured sandstone aquifer responds as a...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1982
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RB 91/00102 Mississippi Valley type lead-zinc mineralization, northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia.
Recent advances in the understanding of the target Cambrian stratigraphy and its palaeogeographic setting, in combination with a realistic mineralization model, have established that the southern Arrowie Basin platform margin could be host to a...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1992
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RB 99/00032 Trial dewatering of the BHP dolomite quarry at Ardrossan, South Australia.
Trial dewatering of the quarry, which is excavated in fractured and well-bedded Cambrian dolomite, took place for at least 56 days during early 1994, but pumping was terminated when a further significant water level drawdown could not be achieved. Ten...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1999
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Blinman (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Annual reports to the commencement of project licences' joint reporting, for the period 21/4/1999 to 20/4/2002.
Exploration Licence 2593 “Blinman” is located 500 km north of Adelaide in the Central North Flinders Ranges, South Australia. The licence covers an area of 1616km2 and was initially granted to Minotaur Gold NL on 21 April 1999. Minotaur was targeting...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Wilkawillina (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Annual reports submitted until the commencement of joint reporting for all six Project licences, for the period 5/8/1999 to 3/8/2002.
A large area centred on the Wilkawillina Gorge of Ten Mile Creek, in the central Flinders Ranges near Oraparinna, is being explored for possible buried economic zinc silicate (willemite) epigenetic or replacement mineralisation of Beltana type, as...-
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Beltana. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 18/12/1967 to 17/12/1969.
An evaluation of the base metal potential of the greater Beltana 'diapiric' complex was undertaken by MIM via field mapping, soil geochemical surveys and limited shallow rotary percussion drilling at historic surface workings on small showings of...-
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Ragless Range (part of Buckaringa project). Progress and final report to licence surrender for the period 27/4/1976 to 26/10/1976.
In a search for possible buried stratiform massive base metal sulphides hosted within Cambrian carbonate-dolomitic rocks in the Ragless Range area, Amoco Minerals undertook 1:20,000 scale geological mapping and gridding of the eastern limb of the main...-
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Frome Downs Homestead. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 1/1/1969 to 31/12/1970.
Reconnaissance shallow stratigraphic drilling with subsequent borehole geophysical electric and radioactivity logging in the south-western Frome Embayment (21 rotary mud partly cored holes, total 8841 feet), over areas lying adjacent to outcropping...-
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Published: 31 Dec 1970
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Puttapa. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 11/7/1967 to 10/7/1969.
Exploration and evaluation of two large, outcropping willemite zinc orebodies, previously discovered in the Puttapa area by other parties, has been commenced under tenure of Mineral Claim 5092 newly taken up by SML 153 licensee Electrolytic Zinc Co....-
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South Puttapa. Progress and final summary reports for the period 15/7/1970 to 16/7/1971.
Appraisal of the Beltana zinc deposit continued during the current licence period, principally by diamond drilling (6 holes, total 2570 feet) aimed at delineating blind extensions to the main orebody on its southern side. The drilling was very...-
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Mount Plantagenet. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 11/2/1971 to 10/2/1973.
Ongoing exploration for economic epigenetic and syngenetic copper occurrences in the vicinity of the Worumba Diapir, east of Hawker, has concentrated on field mapping, soil and channel sampling and shallow percussion drilling (47 holes for 3755+ feet)...-
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Published: 23 May 1972
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Final report on the Mount Chambers Project, South Australia - Part B.
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Published: 01 Jan 1969
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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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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Willochra area. Annual technical report for the period ending 21 July 2018.
Exploration licence 5821 the “Willochra” is located 50 km north-east of Port Augusta. The tenement has the potential to host large-scale zinc, lead and copper stratiform sedimentary mineralisation (SEDEX deposit). Stratiform zinc (+/- lead and...-
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Beltana mine and Aroona zinc mine mining leases and retention leases (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Option period first annual report, for the period 1/1/2000 to 30/12/2000.
During the first year of its evaluation of the Beltana and Aroona mining properties on which it has taken out an option, Perilya undertook the following intensive work programme aimed at locating buried extensions and repetitions of the willemite...-
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Wirrealpa. Progress, partial surrender and final reports to licence surrender for the period 13/11/1978 to 26/2/1988.
Economic deposits of Mississippi Valley type stratabound lead-zinc mineralisation within in Cambrian limestones were the targets of exploration undertaken on and near the Wirrealpa Diapir. A preliminary field reconnaissance had shown that surface...-
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