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RB 77/00052 Regional soil sampling of the Willyama Complex, Olary area.
In a regional soil sampling survey over Willyama Complex rocks on parts of the Outalpa 1:50 000 Sheet, 2443 samples were collected at 25 metres intervals on 54 lines roughly 1km apart. These samples were analysed for CU, PB, Zn, Au, Mn, Mo, Co, Ni, V,...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 78/00011 Mount Howden mine revisited.
Semi quantitative spectroscopy on samples from the Mount Howden Mine gave anomalous results. The best recording was 35cm of greater than 1% Zn, greater than 1% Pb and 10ppm Ag. An interval (10m thick) of above background copper, silver, lead, Zinc,...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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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 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 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 88/00085 1:250 000 Geological series - Explanatory Notes, OLARY, South Australia. Sheet SI/54-2 International Index.
The OLARY map area includes the SW part of the Willyama Inliers and surrounding Adelaidean (Late Proterozoic) sequences. The Early Proterozoic Willyama Supergroup is separated by NW-trending faults into blocks of metasedimentary rock of upper...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1988
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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 2 partnership no. DPY2-14, Willow IOCG mineral prospect. Project interim and final reports.
Bimbowrie EL 3278 is located within the Palaeoproterozoic Olary Domain of the Curnamona Province, South Australia. The property is prospective for a variety of mineralisation styles including granite batholith primary (hard-rock) uranium, Broken Hill...-
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Outalpa Hill. Data release made upon the full surrender of a subsequent licence : progress reports to licence expiry, for the period 15/7/1988 to 8/8/1994.
Exploration for possible economic gold occurrences in an area surrounding Outalpa Hill in the Olary Ranges, 25 km north of Manna Hill township, has been conducted initially by a private prospecting syndicate with the assistance of industry...-
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Strathearn, Yarramba, South Eagle and Billeroo Creek areas (part of the Strathearn Joint Venture Project). Data release in lieu of partial relinquishment at licence expiry/renewal : progress and annual reports for the period 3/5/1991 to 9/4/2000.
Exploration carried out in the South Eagle - Yarramba area, located 40-80 km north-east of Olary and 50-150 km west-northwest of Broken Hill, has targeted stratabound Pb-Zn-Ag and Cu-Au mineralisation in Proterozoic rocks of the Willyama basement....-
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Kalkaroo. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 11/7/1994 to 14/7/2000.
Exploration work carried out 60 km north-west of Broken Hill initially sought Olympic Dam type Fe oxide Cu-Au mineralisation associated with granitoid equivalents of the Hiltaba Suite, and subsequently, Ernest Henry style stratiform Pb-Zn-Ag...-
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Mingary. Final report for the period from August 1989 to December 1989.
TARGET: Platinum group metals / gold associated with redox-front uranium deposits. EXPLORATION: Geological reconnaissance and ground radiometric traverses.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1989
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Mutooroo. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 5/1/1990 to 9/12/1992.
TARGET: Lead-zinc-silver and copper-gold mineralisation in the Mutooroo area of the Willyama Inliers, 55 km east of Olary. EXPLORATION: Airborne EM surveying (~450 line km flown across strike, 75 Hz, at 300 m line spacing) with ground follow-up moving...-
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Published: 04 Jan 1993
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Crocker Well and Jackson Hill. Joint and separate progress reports, and separate final reports to licences' full surrender, for the period 21/10/1991 to 23/9/1993.
Exploration for diamonds and for base and precious metals over an extensive area located 50 km north-west of Olary comprised regional helicopter-supported drainage sampling of gravel and stream sediments. Kimberlite indicators (chromite) were...-
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Published: 23 Sep 1993
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Macdonald Hill. Progress and final reports for the period 8/5/84 to 20/3/85.
The exploration target in an area located 20 km east-northeast of Olary was economic gold mineralization within Early Proterozoic ironstone and pyritic lode horizons. Drilling results and samples from previous work in the Green and Gold and Wilkins...-
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Kalabity. Data release in lieu of partial relinquishment at licence expiry/renewal : progress reports, and successive joint venturers' final reports, for the period 6/10/1978 to 14/3/1988.
This release details exploration conducted between 1978 and 1988 for uranium, base and precious metals in the Early Proterozoic rocks of the Willyama Complex, north of Olary. Initial work on searching for uranium included airborne helicopter...-
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Macdonald Hill. Final report at licence surrender, for the period 16/4/2009 to 14/5/2009.
Exploration for possible economic porphyry - related copper-gold mineralisation within an area located immediately south of MacDonald Hill has comprised reconnaissance geological mapping plus limited regional minus 40 mesh auger soil sampling of...-
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Mutooroo. Annual reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 27/7/1992 to 14/7/1999.
Gold and base metal exploration was centred around the old Mutooroo line of copper workings 15 km south-southwest of Cockburn. Work comprised an SP survey and soil, rock chip, float, shallow auger, BLEG and stream sediment sampling, the latter...-
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Weekeroo Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 18/4/1974 to 21/12/1974.
In a search for possible economic epithermal / stratiform / metamorphic base metals and gold within the Weekeroo Inlier, detailed geological mapping, rock chip sampling and an office evaluation of previous exploration were carried out for the Weekeroo...-
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Toweroo Bore. Progress reports to licence surrender for the period 30/9/1968 to 30/4/1970.
Uranium exploration, undertaken over a small area of poorly outcropping to shallowly subcropping amphibolite facies metamorphosed Early Precambrian basement located near Toweroo Bore, 35 km north-northwest of Crocker Well, has comprised 144 line km of...-
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Published: 04 Feb 1970
