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Wallaroo and Moonta mines and smelters, Yorke's [sic] Peninsula, South Australia. History, nature and methods.
A detailed account of the large scale copper mining and processing operations occurring in the 'Copper Triangle' region of South Australia in the few years following the end of the First World War. The included metrics and pictorial coverage of many...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1921
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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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Pontifex report no. 8684 : Petrology of one drill core sample from hole 02CDDH0049 located at the Challenger gold mine.
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Published: 23 Jun 2005
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Bundulla. Progress reports for the period 24/5/79 to 19/10/82.
Airborne and ground magnetic surveys were conducted in the Bundulla area of the Nullarbor Plain (SA), prior to drilling a prominent circular aeromagnetic feature. 2 percussion/rotary mud holes, each drilled to TD 369.5 m, penetrated crystalline...-
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Stuart Creek. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 13/5/1977 to 12/5/1979.
Stratiform base metal sulphide deposits and sedimentary uranium accumulations were targeted in the Stuart Creek area, which straddles the Torrens Fault on the eastern margin of the Stuart Shelf. Two airborne magnetic and radiometric surveys totalling...-
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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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Appraisal of the northern Flinders Gunsight Project, South Australia.
This report reviews exploration work done from 1965 through 1993 by North Flinders Mines and four joint venturers on the Northern Flinders Ranges Gunsight Project. The enormous number of reports and interpretive maps generated are listed as...-
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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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Hawks Nest. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 20/2/1980 to 29/12/1982.
An area 100 km north of Kingoonya which exhibits a strong regional gravity high and other, intersecting pronounced crustal geophysical features was acquired to search for an Olympic Dam type of base/precious metals deposit. Semi-detailed and detailed...-
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Glenloth Well. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/3/1973 to 29/3/1974.
Two inclined percussion holes were drilled at the Mount Mitchell tin prospect for a total penetration of 504 feet. The aim was to test a discrepancy between subsurface sample negative tin assay results obtained by the Department of Mines, and good...-
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Published: 21 Feb 1974
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Pualco West. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 26/10/1972 to 25/10/1973.
Reconnaissance and detailed bulk loam sampling undertaken to look for diamonds or kimberlite indicator minerals in the vicinity of the Pualco Anticline, plus spectrographic analyses of the derived heavy mineral concentrates for gold and base metals...-
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Published: 12 Dec 1973
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Middleback Range (Iron Knob - Whyalla area). Progress reports and technical reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/7/1968 to 30/6/1970.
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(South-eastern) Lake Torrens area. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/7/1994 to 13/10/2000.
Features interpreted from detailed low-level infill airborne coverage to a 1995 SAEI aeromagnetic survey, flown over a large area of disturbed, mainly Adelaidean sedimentary diapiric terrain located between Hawker and the south-eastern shore of Lake...-
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Published: 25 Oct 1900
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Mount Misery. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/11/1981 to 29/11/1985.
Stratabound, chemically precipitated Telfer - type replacement style vein gold was the target of exploration undertaken over an area 25 km north-west of Yunta, which contains good exposures of Neoproterozoic Umberatana Group clastic metasediments that...-
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Woomera, Emmie Bluff, Salt Creek, Portulacca Ridge and Red Lake. Progress reports for the period 21/8/1979 to June 1983.
Continuing exploration in the Woomera area has included the acquisition of a ground magnetic and gravity survey over the Buller Dam anomaly, which lies on the western flank of the Acropolis aeromagnetic anomaly, and this work confirmed that the former...-
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Lilydale. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report : progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal over a much reduced area, for the period 5/1/1988 to 4/1/1993.
Initial exploration carried out near Lilydale Homestead, 80 kilometres south-east of Yunta, targeted possible Starra-style gold in the Braemar Ironstone facies. Flying of an airborne semi-detailed magnetic and radiometric survey identified magnetic...-
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Mutooroo [Station]. Progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 11/9/1989 to 6/9/1994.
Exploration for possible heavy mineral sand marine placer deposits within Tertiary sediments on the northern margin of the Murray Basin comprised aircore drilling (28 holes, total 744 m) in the Mutooroo station area, 50 km south-east of Olary. The...-
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The MIM-Peko Stuart Shelf Joint Venture Project. Progress reports to licences' joint full surrender and their re-issue as a single replacement tenement, for the period 15/2/1983 to 20/10/1989.
Exploration for Olympic Dam-style Cu-Au-U mineralisation, undertaken over areas to the south-east of Arcoona Homestead and in the vicinity of Woomera township, has comprised numerous reconnaissance and then detailed gravity, ground magnetic and CSAMT...-
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Yumali. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 7/6/1978 to 18/10/1983.
Base metal exploration activities undertaken by Thiess Brothers in the Yumali - Coomandook area investigated several coincident regional gravity and aeromagnetic anomalies arising from concealed Palaeozoic basement rocks. These anomalies are part of a...-
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Published: 14 Nov 1983
