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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Cutana. Annual reports for the period 10/12/2009 to 9/12/2018.
An area consisting of three separate sub-blocks located ~20 to 35 km north-east of Olary and ~20 km east of Cutana is being explored for possible economic gold as basement shear and vein hosted style deposits, as well as for possible extensions of the...-
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Unlocking South Australia's Mineral and Energy Potential - A Plan for Accelerating Exploration. PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry) : Year 9 partnership no. DPY9-44 - Benagerie Dome. Drilling project final report.
A PACE Initiative - subsidised collaborative drilling programme has been completed by Havilah Resources Limited between February and June 2017 on its EL 5873 Benagerie and ML 6346 (Portia gold mine) ground holdings in the central western Curnamona...-
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Walparuta. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/6/2010 to 20/6/2019.
A small area centred ~30 km west of Olary has been explored for possible economic buried primary stratiform base metal sulphide mineralisation, vein barite mineralisation and also for epithermal copper-gold deposits that may have formed in...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mutooroo mine, Bonython Hill, Mutooroo West, Oratan [Rock] and Cutana (the Curnamona South Project). Joint annual reports for the period 1/1/2014 to 31/12/2015.
Several separate areas that cover ground straddling the major tectonic boundary between the Olary and Broken Hill domains of the southern Curnamona Province are being explored for possible economic buried stratabound Proterozoic iron ore, epithermal...-
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Kalabity [part of a joint licence area with South Eagle]. Progress and final reports to licence re-issue over a stand-alone area, for the period 13/9/1976 to 12/9/1977.
Continuing exploration for economic stratiform / hydrothermal base metal sulphide deposits in the Kalabity Homestead area, 40 km north of Olary, has comprised detailed geological mapping at 1:20,000 scale, outcrop rock chip geochemical sampling,...-
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Kalkaroo and Benagerie. Final report on an investigation of rare earth element mineralisation in the Benagerie Dome, Project ADI RD01-105 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 1, 2021].
The primary objective of the subject successful Accelerated Discovery Initiative (ADI) project proposal has been to determine the nature, extent and economic potential of rare earth elements (REE) mineralisation in the Benagerie Ridge portion of the...-
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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, Mingary and Bulloo Creek (Drew Hill Project). First partial surrender/ second partial relinquishment reports at project licences' expiry/renewal, for the period 30/9/2003 to 29/9/2008.
Work carried out on the now relinquished licence portions has comprised the acquisition, processing and interpretation of Aster satellite imagery (SWIR, VNIR and Landsat TM247 images) by contractor Geoimage in November 2004, followed by a consultant's...-
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Published: 13 May 1909
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Whey Whey Creek (the Black Elephant Project). Data release to accompany first partial surrender at licence expiry/renewal : annual reports for the period 9/10/2006 to 8/10/2011.
A tenement area located 25 km south-west of Olary was taken up for exploration because in the licensees' opinion it is favourably located on the southern margin of the Curnamona Craton, and covers Willyama Supergroup metasediments and metavolcanics...-
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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 - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Cutana. Annual reports for the period 25/7/2007 to 15/8/2013, and the "Curnamona South Project" annual report for the period 1/1/2017 to 31/12/2018.
During licence year 6, the commencing year of renewed EL 3895 Cutana, no work took place because Havilah's RC drilling rig, along with all company personnel, were fully occupied on completing the mining feasibility evaluation drilling programmes...-
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Published: 15 Apr 1919
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Cockburn. Annual reports for the period 24/6/2009 to 23/6/2014.
An area centred approximately 70 km west of Broken Hill is being explored for possible economic buried Broken Hill type Pb-Ag-Zn mineralisation that may be hosted by metasediments of the Palaeoproterozoic Wilyama Supergroup, as well as for possible...-
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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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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Eurinilla. Annual reports submitted until the commencement of the Curnamona JV Project (that also includes Benagerie and Kalkaroo), for the period 5/7/2001 to 28/9/2005.
In a continuation of mineral exploration on a small licence centred ~100 km north of Olary, no new work was performed by licensee Alphadale over the three-year period July 2001 to July 2004. A new joint venture partner was sought to carry forward the...-
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RB 2006/00005 The Southern Australian Archaean-Proterozoic Synthesis: Developing tectonic frameworks to assist mineral exploration. Abstract volume.
Includes abstracts with the following titles: 1) How magnetotellurics (MT) works, and an overview of new central Australian MT results (Kate Selway) 2) Latest MT traverse results: western Gawler Craton (Stephan Thiel) 3) A constrained 3D...-
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Published: 01 Feb 2006
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RB 2005/00012 Prospectivity analysis of Bimbowrie Station, Curnamona Province, South Australia - interim report
In May 2004 the Minister for the Department of Environment and Heritage purchased Bimbowrie Station pastoral lease. The station was purchased because it encompasses part of the Olary Ranges, which is part of the environmentally important Broken Hill...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2005
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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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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
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Bulloo Creek, Old Lake Dismal and Wompinie [North] (part of the Drew Hill JV Project). Joint annual reports to licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/8/2005 to 24/8/2008.
Possible Ernest Henry - style IOCG mineral deposits formed in Palaeoproterozoic basement metasediments and intrusive rocks buried under thick cover were the targets of exploration carried out on three irregular tenement areas spread across the region...-
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Published: 18 Nov 1908
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-19, Honeymoon area base metal and hard rock uranium mineral prospects. Project final report.
EL 2937 licensee Southern Cross Resources has utilised PACE Initiative Year 2 funding assistance to carry out a collaborative drilling project to test 2 primary base metal/uranium targets within Willyama Group basement at a location 5 km south-east of...-
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