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Known and potential mineralisation styles, Benagerie Ridge Magnetic Complex.
The north-south trending Benagerie Ridge, lying within the South Australian portion of the Curnamona Province 120-160 km to the west-northwest of Broken Hill, contains a number of magnetic complexes, some of which can be interpreted as domal...-
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Annual report on exploration activities, Mount Neill and Mount Fitton areas, EL 871, 1982.
A reassessment of Marathon Petroleum's 1979 regional stream sediment sampling programme led to the decision to resample a number of areas within EL 871. The Mt Neill and Mt Fitton areas were chosen, as a result of possible similarities with the...-
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Summary of the previous exploration for stratiform copper and proposed follow-up exploration in the Yudnamutana Hill area, South Australia.
This report summarises the relevant results of previous copper exploration in the Yudnamutana Hill area by Utah Exploration Co. and Australian Aquitaine Petroleum Pty Ltd, and suggests an ongoing exploration programme for stratiform copper. It also...-
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Review of stratiform gold within the Adelaidean sediments, Mount Painter Province, South Australia.
The southern portion of the Mount Painter Province held under ELs 871 and 1049 contains Adelaidean sediments of the Upper Callanna Beds and Burra Group overlying the Carpentarian Mount Painter Complex. Reconnaissance work by Marathon Petroleum during...-
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Copperlinka. Progress and annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/4/1991 to 6/6/1997.
Exploration for possible large, potentially open cut - mineable disseminated quartz vein - type syngenetic gold and base metal deposits within a licence area located near Outalpa, 150 km south-west of Broken Hill, has comprised geological mapping,...-
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Antro, Ameroo, Plumbago, Telechie Dam and Pimpena (the North Ltd Olary Project). Joint annual reports and final report to licences' joint surrender, for the period 12/7/1993 to 24/9/1996.
Exploration for Broken Hill style stratiform Zn-Pb-Ag and/or Roxby Downs - Cloncurry style discordant Cu-Au and Zn deposits, in the Bimbowrie - MacDonald Hill - Telechie Dam - Boolcoomata area, north-west of Olary, comprised ground magnetic and...-
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Emu Hill. Progress and annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/4/1991 to 21/4/1996.
Diamond exploration undertaken north-west of Moolawatana included the acquisition of airborne magnetic / radiometric and ground magnetic surveys, plus soil, stream sediment, gravel, loam and rock chip sampling, and aircore/diamond drilling (25 holes,...-
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RB 55/00006;Amdel 00126 Accessory minerals of South Australian granites.
The purpose of the work described was to compare and contrast the petrography, accessory minerals, and absolute ages of 25 granitic and allied rock samples collected from widely scattered localities in South Australia. The processes that are...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1961
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RB 79/00037 Quartz crystals from Kings Bluff, Teetulpa and Nillinghoo Goldfields, Olary Province.
The Kings Bluff goldfield operated from 1887 to about 1918, with sporadic interest shown by prospectors thereafter. Gold is found primarily in vuggy quartz veins transecting the quartzite host-rock. The vugs themselves, which are relatively higher...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 92/00034 Review of company mineral exploration, Willyama Block and environs, OLARY 1:250 000 map sheet, South Australia.
Open file company data from 101 exploration licences dating from 1940 is reviewed. To 1989, 1189 rotary / percussion holes (85 000 metres) and 132 diamond drill holes (31 000 metres) were drilled in exploration for uranium, base metals and, to a...-
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Published: 01 May 1992
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RB 98/00022 Review of open file company exploration data from the early 1980s to mid-1997, over the Yunta, Winnininnie, Anabama and Oakvale 1:100 000 map sheets, OLARY 1:250 000 map sheet, South Australia.
Significant exploration focussed on: · stratabound 'Telfer-style' gold in Adelaidean metasediments in the Nackara Arc, using stratiform or stratabound structurally-controlled genetic models; and structurally controlled gold and base metal...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1997
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RB 98/00021 Review of open file company exploration data from 1992 to mid-1997, Olary Domain, CURNAMONA 1:250 000 map sheet, South Australia.
This report comprises Open file company data, released since the previous MESA review (Yates and Randell, 1994) of the CURNAMONA 1:250 000 map sheet, includes exploration for base and precious metals (especially stratiform/stratabound Broken...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1997
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RB 93/00048 Review of company mineral exploration, CURNAMONA 1:250 000 sheet, South Australia.
Company exploration within the CURNAMONA 1:250 000 sheet area was reviewed by the study of data incorporated in the open file reports on 42 Special Mining Leases, 80 Exploration Licences and one group of Mining Leases dating from 1961. This data...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1994
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RB 88/00075 Review of lead-zinc mineralisation in South Australia - Willyama Inlier and Curnamona Cratonic Nucleus.
Lower Proterozoic crystalline rocks of the Willyama Complex include phyllite, carbonaceous slate, mica-sillimanite schist and gneiss, feldspathic meta quartzite, quartzo feldspathic gneiss, calc-silicate rocks and iron formations. The oldest rocks in...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1988
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RB 95/00041 Commodity review. Copper and gold in South Australia.
The giant Olympic Dam deposit has a total resource of about 2 200 million tonnes grading 1.4% Cu, 0.5 kg/t U3O8, 0.5 g/t Au and 3.1 g/t Ag. Development of Olympic Dam, with current annual production of 67 000 t of copper and further expansion...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1995
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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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Emu Dam (formerly Billeroo West). Data release in lieu of partial relinquishment upon licence renewal (as EL 2878) : annual reports for the period 4/11/1996 to 3/11/2001.
Exploration for possible economic Early Proterozoic stratabound Pb-Zn-Ag deposits of Broken Hill type, and for Olympic Dam style, Middle Proterozoic Benagerie Ridge volcanogenic sediment - hosted, epithermal / hydrothermal Cu-Au-Mo(-U) occurrences of...-
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Unlocking South Australia's Mineral and Energy Potential - A Plan for Accelerating Exploration. Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry) : Year 3 partnership no. DPY3-54, Bonython Hill mineral prospect. Project interim and final reports.
EL 2788 (Bonython Hill) covers 120 square km of the Broken Hill Domain, and is regarded as being prospective for Broken Hill - type (BHT) lead-zinc-silver mineralisation and for iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits. As one of its PACE...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-59, Kalkaroo Dome fault-hosted gold mineral prospects. Project final report.
The main aim of Havilah Exploration's PACE Initiative Year 3 approved drilling programme was to test the east-west trending, quartz-veined breccia zone that passes through the central Kalkaroo Dome, specifically in the footwall of the Kalkaroo Cu-Au...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-06, Mingary area stratiform, Broken Hill type base metal mineral prospects. Project final report.
Historic drilling undertaken on the NSW side of the state border with SA, adjacent to EL 2820, has encountered quartz-gahnite, meta-iron formation and meta-amphibolite rock types that have been correlated with the highly base metal - prospective...-
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