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Kalabity (part of the Strathearn Joint Venture Project). Data release at licence expiry/full surrender : progress reports and annual reports for the period 4/7/1988 to 15/10/2003.
The initial manager of the joint venture, CRA Exploration Pty Ltd (CRAE), targeted a range of copper, gold and uranium mineralisation styles, including vein-style uranium associated with carbonate rocks (Kintyre model), Olympic Dam style...-
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Unlocking South Australia's Mineral and Energy Potential - A Plan for Accelerating Exploration. Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry) : Year 2 partnership no. DPY2-27, K1 mineral prospect. Project interim and final reports.
In 2005, EL 2776/3478 farminee Western Plains Gold, to help achieve its commitment towards earning a 60% interest in the subject licence, and as part of its exploration focus on finding iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineralisation within...-
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Published: 19 Jun 1906
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Morialpa. Progress, annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 9/2/2003 to 8/2/2006.
Subsequent to a partial relinquishment of ground and related data release made in August 2003, ongoing exploration conducted over a small area located about 25 km north-northwest of Manna Hill township, looking for possible Zambian type stratiform...-
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Weekeroo North. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 1/8/1968 to 31/7/1970.
Exploration carried out by MIM to look for possible economic primary or secondary uranium deposits related to the Weekeroo Inlier of Palaeoproterozoic rocks has consisted of an airborne radiometric survey (750 line miles flown along E-W lines spaced...-
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Published: 31 Jul 1970
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Boolcoomata (part of the Drew Hill Project). Final report at licence expiry/full surrender for the period 30/9/2003 to 29/9/2008.
An area situated on Boolcoomata Station, ~35 km east-northeast of Olary, was explored both for possible epithermal/hydrothermal copper-gold-molybdenum deposits and for hydrothermal or stratiform/syngenetic base metal deposits that may have formed...-
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Published: 29 Apr 1909
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Outalpa Hill. Data release made upon the full surrender of a subsequent licence : progress reports to licence expiry, for the period 15/7/1988 to 8/8/1994.
Exploration for possible economic gold occurrences in an area surrounding Outalpa Hill in the Olary Ranges, 25 km north of Manna Hill township, has been conducted initially by a private prospecting syndicate with the assistance of industry...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Boolcoomata, Macdonald Hill, Mingary, Bulloo South / Bulloo Creek, Drew Hill and Wompinie (the Drew Hill Project). Separate and joint annual reports for the period 30/9/2003 to 9/1/2008.
Three adjacent but separate exploration licences, ELs 3136, 3137 and 3138, together covering 491 square km of ground located north-east of Olary and also surrounding Mingary, were initially granted to Exco Resources NL (Exco) at the end of September...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Ethiudna. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 22/2/2004 to 22/2/2015.
An area centred ~50 km north-west of Olary is continuing to be explored for possible buried economic Prominent Hill or Olympic Dam type iron oxide associated copper-gold (IOCG) breccia style mineralisation. The area is considered highly prospective...-
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Deep Well Dam. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 2/9/1994 to 13/4/2003.
The Deep Well Dam area, which lies 60 km north-northwest of Olary, is located within the Palaeoproterozoic Olary Domain and encompasses rock sequences prospective for stratabound Zn-Pb and Cu-Au mineralisation. Initial work performed there comprised...-
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Shorts Dam. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/6/1997 to 18/6/2002.
Gold, and copper or other base metal mineralisation hosted by Proterozoic metasediments of the Willyama Supergroup and by intrusive Mesoproterozoic granitoids, was the target of exploration in the Boolcoomata area, 40 km north-east of Olary. Regional...-
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Published: 30 Nov 1902
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Morialpa. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report : progress reports and annual reports for the period 16/12/1995 to 8/8/2003.
Initial exploration for stratiform Cu-Au mineralisation hosted within Adelaidean sediments in the Morialpa area, 40 km north- west of Olary, comprised soil, stream sediment, rock chip and ironstone lag geochemical sampling, and 1:10,000 scale...-
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Published: 29 Aug 1903
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Eurinilla. Data release made in lieu of second partial surrender at licence expiry/renewal : annual reports plus first partial surrender report, for the period 7/6/1994 to 4/7/2001.
The tenement was acquired to cover a large magnetic dome (the Eurinilla Dome, ~100 km north of Olary), considered prospective for iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineralisation analogous to that found at Olympic Dam and Ernest Henry. An...-
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Published: 20 Nov 1901
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Strathearn, Yarramba, South Eagle and Billeroo Creek areas (part of the Strathearn Joint Venture Project). Data release in lieu of partial relinquishment at licence expiry/renewal : progress and annual reports for the period 3/5/1991 to 9/4/2000.
Exploration carried out in the South Eagle - Yarramba area, located 40-80 km north-east of Olary and 50-150 km west-northwest of Broken Hill, has targeted stratabound Pb-Zn-Ag and Cu-Au mineralisation in Proterozoic rocks of the Willyama basement....-
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Cutana. Annual reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 1/8/1994 to 26/2/2002.
EL 2635, formerly EL 1976, straddled the Barrier Highway 25 km east of Olary. The licence covered ground initially taken up by MIM in late 1986, and all that company's work prior to mid 1994, with emphasis on investigating the Luxemburg - Premier...-
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Bundera Well. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/6/2000 to 26/6/2005.
Possible buried Palaeoproterozoic stratiform to stratabound Cloncurry style Cu-Au mineralisation was the principal objective of exploration undertaken over an area located approximately 60 km north-east of Olary. Other conceptual targets included...-
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South Eagle. Progress and annual reports for the period 22/6/87 to 21/12/90 [i.e. to the start of the joint reporting on ELs 1352, 1382, 1412 and 1487].
Exploration for possible buried, stratiform, Palaeoproterozoic Willyama Group Ag-Pb-Zn ore deposits, over an area located 8-20 km north to north-northeast of Boolcoomata Homestead, comprised ground magnetic, Sirotem and IP surveys plus petrology,...-
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Strathearn (part of the Olary Joint Venture Project). Quarterly progress reports for the period 20/8/1986 to 19/5/1991.
Exploration for stratiform - stratabound, Broken Hill type Ag-Pb-Zn mineralisation in the buried Lower Proterozoic basement to the Strathearn area, 60 km north of Olary, comprised aeromagnetic and gravity data interpretations, ground magnetic, Sirotem...-
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Published: 30 May 1991
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Unlocking South Australia's Mineral and Energy Potential - A Plan for Accelerating Exploration. Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry) : Year 2 partnership no. DPY2-57, Eurinilla Dome copper-gold mineral prospects. Project final report.
Past drilling of the Eurinilla Dome by BHP, Lynch Mining and Havilah Resources has identified widespread anomalous Cu±Au±Co mineralisation flanking a central magnetic core, in an analogous geological setting to that of the Benagerie and Kalkaroo...-
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Benagerie Ridge. [BHEI consultant's] geological interpretation, 1996-1997.
As part of the Broken Hill Exploration Initiative, solid geology interpretation was carried out over a large area of concealed prospective Palaeoproterozoic and Mesoproterozoic basement within the Curnamona Craton, to derive stratigraphic / structural...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bonython Hill (part of the Border Project). Annual reports for the period 23/2/2007 to 18/5/2014.
During Year 7 of reporting, exploration work included two 1 km soil geochemical traverses, field inspection of Neogene palaeochannels and land access negotiations with landowners. Previous exploration in the region has recognised the correlation...-
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