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Mount Frome. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 22/10/1973 to 21/10/1974.
A re-investigation of base metal geochemical anomalies detected during Electrolytic Zinc Co.'s former stream sediment and rock chip sampling programme conducted near an historic copper-lead mine prospect at Mount Chambers in the eastern Flinders...-
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Published: 06 Sep 1974
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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 54/00075 Ediacara silver-lead-copper Mineral Field. (Mineralisation investigation) Progress report no. 1.
Lead and copper mineralisation occurs in rocks of Cambrian age in the Ediacara Mineral Field. Rich pockets of ore minerals of limited extent occur in the Transition beds and in the overlying carbonates, associated with breccias or turbidites....-
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Published: 19 Mar 1962
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RB 60/00004 Source and distribution of heavy metals in Cambrian and Marinoan shelf sediments in South Australia.
The sedimentary environment of Cambrian and Marinoan shelf sediments in South Australia is outlined. Tables are presented showing the distribution of Cu and Pb in the various facies of these sediments. Low grade copper mineralisation in some Marinoan...-
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Published: 06 Jan 1965
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RB 86/00018 Base metal exploration Flinders Ranges National Park. Final report, Stages 1 and 2. Volume 1 (of 2).
Exploration for Mississippi Valley type (MVT) lead zinc along the western margin of the Park has been confined to the upper part of the Wilkawillina Limestone of the Cambrian Hawker Group, where surface lead, zinc and copper mineralization and karstic...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1986
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RB 86/00022 Base metal exploration Flinders Ranges National Park - July 1983 to February 1986 - Summary report.
Investigations have disclosed lead zinc mineralization as open - space filling, in the upper part of the Cambrian, Wilkawillina Limestone. Lead, zinc and copper mineralization is associated with dolomitization, facies changes, and karstic features...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1986
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RB 90/00078 South Australia - Exploration Towards 2000. Seminar, Adelaide, 13 December, 1990. Extended abstracts.
A seminar designed to heighten industry interest in South Australia as a place in which to search for minerals and petroleum was organised by the Department of Mines and Energy at the Australian Mineral Foundation on 13 December 1990. A number of data...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1990
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RB 91/00101 Lead-zinc drilling investigations, 1989. Wirrealpa area, SA.
Potential target areas for Mississippi Valley style lead zinc mineralization were drill tested by 31 open drill holes totalling 825 metres. Postulated eastern extensions of low grade, flat-lying lead (-zinc) mineralisation were confirmed at the Eric...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1991
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RB 88/00041 Review of lead-zinc mineralization in South Australia - Adelaide Geosyncline and inliers, Stuart Shelf.
Mineralization is widespread both geographically and stratigraphically, but many areas are under-explored. Past exploration was generally focussed on copper. Further investigation is recommended in the following units and areas: . Cambrian - Hawker...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1988
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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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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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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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Flinders Ranges Joint Venture (Esso / BHP) - drilling programmes.
Drilling included : at the Linda prospect - 20 reverse circulation holes (total 502 m) and 2 diamond holes (total 301 m); at the Wilnuroona prospect - 7 reverse circulation holes (total 370 m); at the Eric prospect - 107 RAB holes (total 1107 m)...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1985
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Flinders Project. Exploration for carbonate-hosted base metals in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia.
An EL farm-out promotional document which summarises BHP's recent integrated exploration activity over 7 ELs in the Flinders Ranges, looking for Mississippi Valley type base metal mineralization in Cambrian age sediments, and which nominates prospects...-
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Wirrealpa. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 13/9/1988 to 12/9/1989.
Possible economic stratabound or epigenetic lead-zinc or copper deposits, formed in altered carbonate rocks lying marginal to the Wirrealpa Diapir, were the targets of new exploration centred on the area of the old Wirrealpa lead-silver mine....-
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Published: 06 Nov 1989
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Mount Frome. Progress and final reports to licence surrender, for the period 25/10/1979 to 25/2/1988.
As part of a regional project of exploration for Mississippi Valley type (MVT) lead-zinc mineralisation emplaced in tectonically and structurally 'prepared ground' within Lower Cambrian limestones, Dampier/BHP investigated rocks of this age which...-
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Ediacara. Progress reports and technical reports for the period November 1962 to April 1967.
TARGET: Mississippi Valley - type stratiform lead and copper mineralisation formed near the base of the Cambrian sedimentary sequence on the Ediacara structure. EXPLORATION: Initially, in 1962, the company reviewed the progress of then occurring SADM...-
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Published: 12 Apr 1967
