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Radium Hill. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 29/6/1972 to 28/6/1973.
Exploration for possible economic uranium and/or base metal mineralisation in the Radium Hill district consisted of a consultants' review of the exploration potential of the area based on data from existing mines and prospects, plus the conduct of a...-
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Published: 25 Jul 1973
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Cathedral Rock. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 20/7/1973 to 19/7/1975.
Investigations of the copper potential of a series of folded and faulted, Carpentarian age, albite / actinolite / quartz / magnetite altered fine-grained metasediments exposed in the vicinity of Cathedral Rock on Old Boolcoomata Station commenced...-
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Published: 08 Aug 1975
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Southern Fleurieu Peninsula. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 11/2/1971 to 10/2/1972.
Regional stream sediment sampling across the southern Fleurieu Peninsula (133 bulk samples), done outside the previously sampled Cape Jervis / Talisker mine area, failed to locate any base metal anomalies that might be related to subtle pneumatolytic...-
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Lake Torrens area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 17/12/1970 to 16/9/1971.
Possible economic buried, fault-controlled, supergene stratabound type or replacement style base metal deposits formed within Cambrian carbonate rocks were the target of exploration carried out over the Lake Torrens area. A 1200 line mile airborne...-
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Burra [Ridge]. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry / full surrender, for the period 26/3/1972 to 25/3/1973.
Exploration of the 'Burra Ridge' highland of Adelaidean Burra Group rocks outcropping along a direct line between the towns of Burra and Robertstown, which has a history of mineral production from nine major early copper mines and many smaller...-
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Mount Denison. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/11/1973 to 18/11/1974.
As part of a continuing search for possible Palaeoproterozoic unconformity and vein-related hydrothermal uranium deposits in the northern Peake and Denison Ranges basement outcrop region, prospective stratigraphic and structural features were mapped...-
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Published: 16 Jan 1975
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Beefsteak Dam. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 30/4/1975 to 29/4/1976.
Five open rotary holes totalling 614.7 m were drilled and geophysically logged to test a possible, resistivity - interpreted southern extension of the Lower Tertiary Yarramba Palaeochannel. The existence of this additional channel was confirmed, but...-
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Lake MacDonnell. Progress reports for the period 17/6/1968 to 16/6/1969.
Investigations included studies on production of sulphur, sulphuric acid, and other chemicals from gypsum, a feasibility study on scaled production operations for export of gypsum, and product marketing studies. There are no technical difficulties...-
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Published: 14 Dec 1968
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Port Lincoln. Progress and final reports for the period 1/11/1973 to 31/10/1974, and mining claims investigation final report to March 1975.
Exploration for Zambian Copperbelt or Broken Hill type base metal sulphide orebodies, plus possible uranium, gold and copper-nickel occurrences in high grade metamorphic rocks, over the Lincoln Uplands adjacent to Port Lincoln, was undertaken using...-
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Lake Torrens area. Joint progress reports and joint final report to licences' expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/6/1966 to 14/11/1969.
Extensive geochemical and geological investigations were carried out over exposed and shallowly buried, predominantly flat-lying Lower Cambrian carbonate rocks in an area extending from the western edge of the Flinders Ranges to west of Lake Torrens....-
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Published: 17 Mar 1969
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Parachilna - Mernmerna area. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/6/1966 to 14/11/1969.
Continuing exploration for Ediacara - type, Early Palaeozoic carbonate sediment-hosted lead-zinc deposits in the Bunyeroo Gorge - Parachilna Gorge area of the Flinders Ranges comprised regional and detailed stream sediment, rock chip and soil...-
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Published: 13 May 1969
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Report on geological mapping of surface and underground workings SML 704 Yudnamutana prospect Old Knoll Project, Aug-Sept 1972.
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Published: 01 Jan 1972
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Reaphook Hill. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 1/12/1965 to 30/11/1966.
Systematic stream sediment sampling and follow-up surface rock chip sampling has been carried out across the Reaphook Hill outlier of Lower Cambrian sediments to investigate the economic potential of previously reported high geochemical zinc values in...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1966
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Yudnamutana Project: regional geology of the Jubilee Fault Zone [with appendices of geochemical and mineralogical data], May-November 1972.
A structurally deformed area in the southwestern corner of SML 704, having many copper carbonate showings and small historic workings known as the Yudnamutana Mining Field, has been mapped at a semi-detailed scale. The area is transected by the...-
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Paratoo. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/9/1966 to 28/6/1967.
To implement its plan to deepen Paratoo DD1 to a total depth of approximately 2000 feet, in order to try to intersect economic copper mineralisation in unweathered rocks below the water table at 500 feet vertical depth, Kennecott recommenced inclined...-
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Lock. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 1/10/1970 to 19/9/1971.
As part of a regional search for possible economic deposits of sedimentary uranium in the central Eyre Peninsula region, a reconnaissance open hole rotary drilling programme (8 holes for 1715 feet) was undertaken in November 1970 along the eastern...-
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Kalabity. First partial surrender report for the period 13/9/1976 to 12/12/1976.
Work carried out on the now relinquished ground comprised 1:20,000 scale detailed geological mapping in six localities, plus systematic grab sampling of selected rock outcrop and float lithologies.-
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Wooltana West [plus Dinnertime Hill and Arkaroola]. Progress and final reports for the period 1/7/1968 to 30/6/1969.
An area of several square miles surrounding Arkarooola Homestead has been explored for possible economic copper occurences, which could include deeper lode extensions at several abandoned mines. Aerial reconnaissance and ground prospecting traverses...-
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Johnburgh. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 22/6/1972 to 20/11/1972.
Exploration for possible stratabound copper deposits, over an area 5 miles south-east of Carrieton, consisted of rock chip sampling and field geological mapping at 1:25,000 scale of outcropping folded and brecciated River Wakefield Group sediments,...-
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Oodnadatta. Combined first progress / final report to licence surrender for the period 22/6/1972 to 28/1/1973.
Reconnaissance prospecting, plus close inspections and sampling of historically briefly worked auriferous areas in the basal Mesozoic sediments on the banks of the Neales River, suggest that any reserves and grades present there would be insufficient...-
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Published: 08 Nov 1972
