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Almanda mine area. Progress reports for the period 17/6/1971 to 17/3/1972.
Geochemical orientation sampling was conducted over old surface workings at the historic Almanda mine to ascertain the most suitable pathfinder element for defining any remaining mineralisation. One diamond drillhole (having 65 degrees inclination on...-
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PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnership DPY9-25 - Pidinga and Fig Tree Corner, western Gawler Craton, orogenic gold prospects. Drilling project final report.
An area centred ~70 km north-east of Yalata and lying ~30 km to the east of the Jacinth and Ambrosia heavy mineral deposits is being explored by Doray Minerals Limited under a joint venture agreement it has made with grant licensee Iluka Resources...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Kolendo, Taringa, Nonning, Wipipippee and Menninnie Dam (the Menninnie Project). Joint annual reports for the period 1/1/2013 to 31/12/2016.
The Menninnie JV Project area consists of five contiguous exploration licences, and is considered prospective for Pb-Zn-Ag-Cu-Au-Mo-U deposits associated with past epithermal, porphyry, IOCG and skarn - forming geological environments. It lies in a...-
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Evaluation of the East Lagoon orebody, Mount Gunson, South Australia.
In December 1969, it was decided that the mining at Mount Gunson, scheduled to start in late April 1970, would commence with the development of the East Lagoon orebody. This orebody was selected because it appeared to contain the highest grade...-
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Published: 30 Apr 1970
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PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnership DPY9-11, Thurlga Ramp, northern edge of Cleve Domain, volcanic epithermal / hydrothermal replacement type precious metal prospects. Drilling final report.
A licence area, which lies adjacent on the west to Investigator Resources' Peterlumbo Hill EL 5368 containing the Paris silver deposit (where there is a currently inferred resource of 42 Moz @ 139 ppm Ag), is being explored under a joint venture with...-
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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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Investigation of the Kirkeeks Treasure mine, Koonamore Station, near Yunta, SA.
Pit face sampling and the drilling of a 347 foot diamond drill hole were completed at the Kirkeeks Treasure Mine. The drill hole DDK1 failed to intersect lode material. The most optimistic view of the prospect is that potential exists in the quartzite...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1974
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Report on August-September 1971 drilling operations undertaken at the Ooloo silver-lead mine.
After acquiring an option over Rieck's and other parties' current mineral claims on the Ooloo workings, the surrounding SML 610 operator Petromin searched for possible along-strike extensions to the known lead-zinc-silver mineralisation occurring in...-
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Dome Rock summary report.
An extensive gossanous horizon located 60 metres stratigraphically above the Day, Meehan and Crawford lenses of the Dome Rock copper occurrences was tested by diamond drill hole DR 4 to 272.6 m. Substantial quantities of massive sulphides were...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1976
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Dome Rock summary report.
An extensive gossanous horizon located 60 metres stratigraphically above the Day, Meehan and Crawford lenses of the Dome Rock copper occurrences was tested by diamond drill hole DR 4 to 272.6 m. Substantial quantities of massive sulphides were...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1976
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Dome Rock summary report.
An extensive gossanous horizon located 60 metres stratigraphically above the Day, Meehan and Crawford lenses of the Dome Rock copper occurrences was tested by diamond drill hole DR 4 to 272.6 m. Substantial quantities of massive sulphides were...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1976
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Dome Rock summary report.
An extensive gossanous horizon located 60 metres stratigraphically above the Day, Meehan and Crawford lenses of the Dome Rock copper occurrences was tested by diamond drill hole DR 4 to 272.6 m. Substantial quantities of massive sulphides were...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1976
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Bimbowrie Hill. Progress reports to licence surrender for the period 22/10/1973 to 8/6/1976.
Exploration for possible economic stratiform, Broken Hill type base metal deposits hosted within Willyama Complex metasediments in the Bimbowrie Hill - Ameroo Hill area has consisted of a structural interpretation of aerial photos and ERTS imagery,...-
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Kokatha prospect final report.
27 rotary drill holes (total 213m.) tested for copper-nickel mineralisation associated with a gabbro margin. It was concluded that copper-nickel values of several hundred parts per million is restricted to a small area near the gabbro/hornfels...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1969
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Bull 037 Geology and Mineral Resources of Southern Eyre Peninsula
A regional geological survey covered 15 standard 1-mile map sheets. Detailed mapping established a 50 000 ft sequence of Archaean sedimentation of gneissose, schistose and granitoid rocks, migmatite, quartzite, dolomite and haematitic quartzite. These...-
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Woodchester. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/5/1977 to 2/5/1978.
As part of a regional search for possible economic Mount Torrens - type stratiform base metal occurrences within the Kanmantoo Trough, the soil surrounding all outcropping pyritic Cambrian metasediment units within the licence area was geochemically...-
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Published: 17 Mar 1978
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RB 00814 Display of drillcore from Olympic Dam.
Thirty core trays containing confidential diamond drillcore that is representative of company exploration drillhole RD 16 located at Olympic Dam [hole total depth 1318.9 m] were provided by EL 536 licensee Western Mining Corp. Ltd and placed on public...-
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Bull 043 Regional And Economic Geology of the Mount Painter Province
The northern Flinders Ranges were opened up by pastoralists from about 1850 onwards; mineral discoveries date from about 1860 in the Mount Painter Province. The region has been one of desultory mining activities since that date, principally for...-
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RB 68/00100 First Six Monthly Report on Investigations of the Almanda Mine Area - Sections 1397, 1398, 1399 - Hundred Noarlunga.
Geochemical and geophysical investigations have revealed the presence of strong anomalies centred on an east west shear which extends over a length of 2800 feet and along which copper and silver was mined last century. Diamond Drill Hole DAL.1 begun...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1969
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RB 70/00044 Third geological and geochemical report on the Sellicks Hill area.
Stream and soil sampling of the Cambrian sequence exposed between Willunga and Normanville has outlined several lead-zinc anomalies. Wagon drilling at the Forktree anomaly, 3½ miles NNE of Normanville, showed that widespread manganese oxides are...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1972
