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Spalding. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 4/11/2009 to 7/5/2012.
Exploration for copper mineralisation within a small licence area surrounding Mount Tinline, located approximately 20 km south of Spalding ,was aimed principally at finding deposits of oxide and carbonate ores similar to those mined historically at...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Cone (subsequently part of the Burra North Project). Annual reports submitted until the commencement of project licences' joint reporting, for the period 6/3/2007 to 5/3/2009.
An area of 300 square km located immediately north and north-east of Burra was taken up because it is considered to be prospective for gold and copper mineralisation related to Cambro-Ordovician sediments and late-stage felsic and mafic intrusives,...-
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Hallett (part of the Nackara Gold Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/8/2002 to 4/10/2012.
An area of high country in the far northern Mount Lofty Ranges was taken under licence to try to find the primary source(s) of widely dispersed detrital gold known from Recent and Tertiary cover sediments in the region, while focussing mainly on...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Burra Hill (part of the Burra South Project). Annual reports submitted until the commencement of project licences' joint reporting, for the period 1/5/2006 to 30/4/2009.
Within a small licence area centred about 15 km south-south-east of Burra township in the northern Mount Lofty Ranges, Copper Range initially targeted near-surface copper oxide mineralisation associated with an altered and brecciated contact zone...-
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Mongolata. Third partial surrender report, for the period 13/2/2004 to 9/3/2014.
Exploration for copper and gold mineralisation within a now wholly relinquished 213 square km licence eastern sub-block, located 18-30 km north-east of Burra, has utilised geochemical and geophysical methods to assess the potential of buried...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bald Hill North. Annual reports for the period 25/7/2006 to 24/7/2009.
A small area centred ~5 km west of Burra township is being explored for possible buried economic, Monster mine type stratiform copper oxide or copper carbonate deposits, thought to be associated with poorly exposed fault structures and related...-
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RB 2016/00013 Geological field excursion guide — Rifts, reverse faults and regolith: Neoproterozoic to Cenozoic geology in the Mid-North of South Australia.
The rolling hills, wheat paddocks and vineyards of the Mid-North region of South Australia conceal a geological transition between the Adelaide Hills and the Flinders Ranges. Here the landscape is subtly controlled by the Neoproterozoic bedrock...-
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Published: 01 Jul 2016
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RB 2012/00004 MARREE, South Australia, [geological map] sheet SH54-5. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 000 Series - Explanatory Notes.
The MARREE mapsheet area includes the south-western portion of the Strzelecki Desert plus parts of the Tirari Desert, north-western Flinders Ranges and north-eastern Willouran Ranges, between latitudes 29 to 30 degrees S and longitudes 138 to 139...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2012
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Mirra Bore. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 17/5/1988 to 16/11/1989.
Exploration for gold and base metals in the Willouran Ranges, conducted over an area located approximately 26 km south-west of Marree, was aimed at evaluating known quartz-limonite vein stockwork - type gold mineralisation on four prospects, plus...-
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Published: 30 Oct 1989
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South of Burra area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 1/6/1964 to 25/2/1966.
Exploration reconnaissance work has been carried out over many old copper mines and prospects situated within a 172 square mile area located south of the town of Burra [the impetus being that recently the South Australian Department of Mines had...-
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Published: 25 Feb 1966
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Opaminda Creek. Quarterly and terminal reports for the period 17/11/1976 to 16/11/1978.
Adelaidean strata in the Mount Painter-Arkaroola area were investigated for stratiform copper, initially by North Flinders Mines and later in a joint venture with Western Mining Corp. Following a study of previous exploration data in the region, a...-
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Published: 09 Aug 1977
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Lyndhurst. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/1/1980 to 15/1/1981.
70 line km of gravity traverses were undertaken over potential shallow Triassic coal basins preserved by downwarping in the Lyndhurst area, prior to rotary mud and air drilling of gravity lows (15 holes, total 1,112.85 m, including 7.35 m of coring,...-
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Mount Craig. Final report for the period 5/6/98 to June 1999.
No anomalous metal values were returned from reconnaissance stream sediment and rock chip sampling carried out over an area 20 to 30 km east to south-east of Hawker, although one sample showed 43.8% MgO content. More detailed geochemical sampling is...-
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Artipena Hill area. First annual and final surrender report for the period 13/6/2002 to 12/6/2003.
Exploration within an area of outcropping Adelaidean sediments located 80 km north-east of Hawker targeted possible stratiform copper-gold mineralisation in dolomitic sediments, as at Martins Well and Willippa Dome, and cobalt-nickel(-copper)...-
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Willouran Ranges and Leigh Creek North. Joint venture - related individual licence annual reports, partial surrender reports and final reports to licences' respective expiry/full surrender, for the period June 1998 to 18/11/2003.
A partly defined magnesite resource thought to be of the order of 579 million tonnes in size, consisting of a series of semi-continuously outcropping magnesite beds ranging in thickness from 0.5 m to 9.0 m, is situated within the northern Flinders...-
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Nackara and Oodla Wirra. Joint progress reports and final report to licences' joint surrender, for the period 1/12/1965 to 14/9/1966.
Preliminary induced polarization surveying along four traverses laid out across old copper workings at Nackara disclosed a well-defined IP anomaly 1500 feet long and 200 to 400 feet wide, subcropping in the western limb of a large north-east trending...-
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Arkaroola (part of the Wooltana Joint Venture). Farminee's final report at joint venture exit, for the period April to October 1972.
Exploration for possible economic stratabound copper mineralisation, carried out by Shell Minerals Exploration (Australia) over part of SML 575/703 near Arkaroola in the northern Flinders Ranges under an informal joint venture agreement with the...-
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Yudnamutana Hill. Progress reports and annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/5/1980 to 15/2/1995.
Base metal and gold exploration undertaken over a lengthy period since 1980 in the Yudnamutana Hill area, 20 km north-west of Arkaroola, has comprised detailed geological mapping of major basement and cover stratigraphic units and known mineral...-
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Arkaroola. Progress reports for the period 26/8/1974 to 9/8/1977.
A sequence of exploration programs in the Mount Painter Province, undertaken on Special Mining Leases since 1965, have been previously released. Exploration for base metals since 1974, in an area extending 20 km southwest from Arkaroola, comprised a...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1977
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Finniss Springs. Progress reports for the period 27/5/80 to 26/1/83.
Base metal exploration carried out 70 km west and south-west of Marree, to investigate the potential for Olympic Dam - type mineralisation in concealed pre-Adelaidean rocks, has included geochemical rock chip and water sampling, an aerial radiometric...-
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Published: 21 Feb 1983
