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Plumbago and Bimba. Progress reports, partial relinquishment reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 24/9/1978 to 25/1/1984.
Exploration for stratiform base metals in the Bimba Formation, and later for gold associated with banded iron formations of the Willyaman migmatitic Middle Gneiss Suite, has consisted of regional and detailed geological mapping, and mine tunnel,...-
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Published: 27 Jan 1984
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Curnamona base and precious metals JV Project area (including Benagerie and Kalkaroo). Combined annual reports for the period 1/1/2008 to 31/12/2012.
During the fifth year of the Curnamona Project, field activities were carried out only on Benagerie EL 3586, and consisted of the drilling of 2 inclined diamond cored holes for 424.3 mm (NPDD034 and NPDD035) at the North Portia prospect during August...-
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Macdonald Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/11/1979 to 12/11/1980.
Base metal exploration carried out over an area extending from 8 to 20 km north-northeast of Olary has consisted of a in-depth technical review of past exploration results, plus limited 1:10,000 scale geological mapping, bulk sampling of...-
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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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Mulyungarie. Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/12/2004 to 23/3/2012.
An area of shallowly covered Curnamona Province metalliferous basement rocks abutting the South Australia / New South Wales border, approximately 80 km north-east of Olary, was believed to be prospective for stratiform lead-zinc-silver and stratabound...-
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Benagerie (part of the Benagerie Ridge Joint Venture Project). Progress and annual reports to the commencement of multi-licence joint reporting on the Curnamona Joint Venture Project, for the period 2/5/1989 to 3/5/2003. [Index Part 1 of 3].
An area of sparsely explored, Tertiary and Cretaceous sediment and soil-covered Proterozoic bedrock centred approximately 80 km north of Olary is being explored primarily for base metal massive sulphide deposits. The underlying Benagerie Ridge...-
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Published: 19 May 1903
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mutooroo. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 16/1/1997 to 2/4/2007. [ Index Part 1 of 2 ].
Palaeoproterozoic Willyama Supergroup metasediments, intrusive igneous rocks and volcanic rocks, plus Mesoproterozoic granitoids and associated mafic dykes, which occupy the south-western corner of the Broken Hill basement domain in an area centred...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Drew Hill. Progress reports and annual report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 3/8/1984 to 3/10/1994. [ Index Part 1 of 2 ].
An area centred approximately 20 km north of Olary was taken up by Aberfoyle Resources to explore for possible economic size (>10 Mt), structure-related hydrothermal/stratiform lead-zinc and/or gold deposits which might have formed within...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Kalkaroo (formerly part of the Curnamona Cu-Au Project). Annual reports for the period 25/10/2007 to 17/1/2019.
During the first ten months of the subject reporting period, Havilah continued to carry out exploratory drilling on its Kalkaroo exploration licence and on the embedded two new mining claims, MCs 3826 and 3827, to support the preparation of its mining...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Curnamona JV Project area (including Benagerie and Kalkaroo). Combined annual reports for the period 10/5/2003 to 31/12/2007.
Ongoing exploration carried out by project operator Havilah Resources under its newly ratified, twelve exploration licence Curnamona Project Amalgamated Expenditure Agreement, for the period 15/10/2003 to 31/12/2004, consisted mainly of drilling done...-
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Kalabity. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/11/2000 to 28/3/2014.
An area situated ~100 km west of Broken Hill has been explored for buried base and precious metals epigenetic mineralisation that might have formed within Palaeoproterozoic meta-igneous and metasedimentary basement rocks of the north-eastern Olary...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bulloo Creek [ not Bulloo South ] (part of the Drew Hill Joint Venture Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 17/6/1994 to 28/9/2005.
Exploration for Kalkaroo or Portia style copper-gold deposits, and for Broken Hill type stratiform lead-zinc-silver deposits, both possibly formed within the Palaeoproterozoic basement intrusive rocks and high grade metasediments in an area lying...-
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RB 2002/00015 Geology of the Olary Domain, Curnamona Province, South Australia. Field guidebook to the Broken Hill Exploration Initiative excursion, 2001.
The Proterozoic Curnamona Province extends across central eastern South Australia and into western New South Wales. Whilst most of the Province is obscured by younger sedimentary cover, regions of exposure are present in the northwest as the Mount...-
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RB 2006/00014 Geology of the Olary Domain Curnamona Province South Australia 2006 Field Guide and Excursion Stops
This field guidebook provides brief geological summaries to sites in South Australia that were visited during the 2006 Broken Hill Exploration Initiative pre-conference excursion. Figures show the location of the field area and approximate location of...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2006
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RB 2019/00014 Old Boolcoomata region excursion notes, Curnamona Province, 20-22 July 2019
The excursion to the Old Boolcoomata region of the Olary Domain, Curnamona Province, in South Australia presents most of the stratigraphy of the late Palaeoproterozoic Willyama Supergroup and evidence for its complex deformation during the ~1600 Ma...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2019
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RB 2002/00036 Draft report on the structure and lithostratigraphy of the Ameroo Hill area, Olary Domain, South Australia
Approximately 30 square km of outcrop of Palaeoproterozoic basement rocks in the vicinity of Ameroo Hill were geologically mapped by the author at 1:10,000 scale, with the aim of identifying meso- and macroscopic rock structures and lithologically...-
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Published: 27 Jun 2002
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RB 2009/00018 BHEI 2009 - OLARY field excursion to Ameroo Hill, Tommie Wattie [Bore] and the Walparuta Inlier. [September 25-26, 2009].
The Curnamona Province is the southern remnant of the Palaeoproterozoic Pb-Zn belt, and represents but a small fragment of the original superbasin. Geological data supports the idea of the basin being a rift, with sediments in the Broken Hill Domain...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2009
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RB 2009/00010 Curnamona Province exploration review and mineral systems.
Uranium has been the mainstay of mineral exploration and mining in the Curnamona Province of South Australia since the early prospecting activity at Radium Hill in 1906 and Mount Painter in 1910. Larger scale mining and exploration began after the...-
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Published: 01 Jun 2009
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Lake Charles area. Data release made in lieu of a partial relinquishment of ground at licence expiry/renewal : progress and annual reports for the period 20/10/1993 to 30/8/1998.
Exploration of an area of the Olary Block centred 100 km north of Mingary is targeting possible economic buried analogues of Mount Isa Block, Western Succession - type stratiform Pb-Zn-Ag mineralisation associated with Palaeoproterozoic metasediments...-
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Published: 22 Sep 1998
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Curnamona base and precious metals JV Project area (including Benagerie and Kalkaroo). Combined annual reports for the period 10/5/2003 to 31/12/2018, plus subsequent surrender reports.
During 2013, the tenth year of the Curnamona Project, field activities were conducted by MMG on ELs 4225, 4259, 4313, 4441, 4691, 4782 and 4940. Four ground gravity surveys were acquired on parts of six licences. In total 7519 new stations were read...-
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Published: 25 Jan 1924
